The College of Design organized an architectural portfolio workshop on Wednesday and led the students to potential employers through the presentation of their portfolios.
The event entitled “Narrative + Presentation” is the third in a seven -part series in which the career fair and portfolio development are researched, which is organized by collaboration with several design organizations in connection with Design and College of Design Career Services.
The presentation began to discuss with free foods how to write about a portfolio project.
Gabriella Saholt, a student in architecture in the fifth year, and Sebastian Salamanca, an architectural student in the third year, directed the presentation and emphasized the importance of the reader of a portfolio.
“You want a strong first sentences like a catch, similar to the beginning of a song,” said Salamanca.
The focus, such as the use of courageous and italics, to emphasize important phrases and the use of large images, were found as strategies for drawing the viewer – Salamanca described this as “money recording”.
Salamanca discussed the portfolio visualization and underlined other ways to take off its own portfolio.
“Process work is great,” said Salamanca. “Sketches are currently very popular.”
The presentation showed Best Practices for the discussion of a portfolio to prepare for the upcoming College of Design Career Fair, which takes place on February 20.
“Start with your main thesis and go into more context,” said Saholt.
The moderators described that when discussing a portfolio with an employer, their verbal pitch should attack with pictures of their work in order to avoid “jumping” their portfolio.
The time was another focus of the moderators. Salamanca emphasized that you could possibly have 10 minutes to show your best work in several semesters to do organizations and be essential for a successful employer.
Saholt and Salamanca, who put the best project first, can be set the scene through their work.
Salamanca ended the presentation with advice for his architectural colleagues.
“Be confident, be casual,” said Salamanca. “Remember that the person who interviewed was once in the same shoes.”
The workshop then turned into a “speed dating” setup, in which the participants organized themselves in couples to practice their portfolios, gain experience and gain feedback next to a ticking watch.
The couples cycled every ring of the timer and offered the opportunity to hear feedback from several colleagues from different years and levels of experience in the architectural program.
“I have the feeling that the most important snack bars were verbally presented [my portfolio]Something I really didn't do, ”said Bryson Beaudry, an architecture in the third year. “Something simple makes you rethink the way you did your portfolio and what you can do to change it to make it more comprehensive.”
Sierra Wrolie, a fifth year of architecture, helped planning the event.
“I was excited when we talked about the activities we would do,” said Wrooolie. “Instead of a lecture and a statement, we had activities and were able to practice with other people. It was good to get different perspectives on what they think of the most important thing from outside the project and what I should value more. “
According to Saholt, various design organizations for design students carried out their own portfolio reviews and workshops.
“The idea behind it was to get everyone together to pull his resources together so that we as a collective we can improve all of our portfolios and our career development,” said Saholt.
Abby Klostermann, an architectural student in the fifth year, also helped planning the workshop series and explained that this cooperation of student groups optimized the process of presenting information.
“Students don't have to go from a club to an event and then try to go to another event that is similar from another club,” said Klostermann. “It's all a coherent event.”
Klostermann also noticed the career fair as a catalyst for programming.
“Portfolios are a large part of getting internships, talking about their projects and networking,” said Klostermann. “I think that is a good experience to prepare for the career fair, but only to interact with her colleagues with her classmates.”
Olivia Maasdam, an architecture in the third year, which was supported in the organization of the workshop, reflected on her second year in the program.
“Something like this last year would have been really nice to bring her foot into the door to this type of networking thing,” said Maasdam.
David Doan, an architecture in the third year, which also helped planning the workshop, was submitted in the interaction funded at the event.
“I think it's easy to stay in your own bubble and just go to your own club event, but that only brings everyone together,” said Doan. “When we were second years, we didn't know how to interact with other people who were not in the same class as we were – this program, this workshop is really helpful in my opinion.”
Maasdam's hopeful intentions are to continue the workshop series next year after the “frame is set up”.
The next topics in the workshop series include CVs and cover letters, professional portfolio reviews and a sham career fair. Architecture students can find the times and data for these events in their e -mail.