Tips for creating your perfect digital portfolio

Surely you heard or read, many times, that you should always show your work. Those photos, illustrations or designs that have occupied hours and days of your life must be exposed to your potential clients. But beware! There is always a better way than to show your work in email attachments.

A portfolio helps you synthesize your work, show yourself as an artist and make your projects be seen.

Whether looking for a job or applying for a contest, you must have a portfolio that dazzles and is attractive to whoever receives it. Therefore, I bring you these tips that will make your life a little easier when putting together your own digital portfolio.

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Who do you send it to?

Sending a portfolio to a government institution is very different from sending it to a children’s entertainment agency. You must know the company or client with whom you want to work and highlight among your work what is most attractive to them, give them that exclusivity. It will be effective for both of you!

If you do not have material that fits the market where you are going to apply, it would be good if you add something self-taught and complement your experience in that way.

Reduces information

Let’s be clear: the goal of a portfolio is to show what you know how to do. So don’t saturate it with redundant information and details of your countless abilities, let your material speak for itself.

Never try to flatter yourself or place any exaggeratedly long process of making any packaging or logo, highlight what is important and attach what you think is necessary.

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Juan Diego Jhons Online Portfolio

Order matters

It is normal to think that you should show all your best work first; however, that idea is not entirely correct. The structure of a digital portfolio is linear and you must manage a good order so that the attention of the person who reviews it does not fall in half.

It is true, all the work we have done does not have the same level. But we can balance it so that they give a feeling of constant validation.

Choose your two best jobs, place them at the beginning and end, then select the third and place it in the middle, while the fourth and fifth as second and penultimate.

The important thing is to have a good start and close. The rest will be distributed by priority.

Show what you love

Over the years, you will get endless jobs where what you learned will be reflected, but also the indications of some client.

If you are looking for something new and different, highlight your personal projects or original works in your portfolio, that which reflects what you like to do and what you want to learn more about. It might not be your best job but that’s what you really love, right?

Amorelli Online Portfolio

Always focus on putting together your portfolio and update it from time to time, you never know when you will need it.

There are several pages that offer the option of showing your work or you can also do it directly on your website if you have your own domain. To give it personality and continue working on it, I recommend taking the Adobe InDesign course together with Rosa Rodríguez where you will learn about hierarchy and design.