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Being in field of ‘Design’ where person identified by his work… So documenting your own work in some kind of portfolio or just collection of well designed Artworks will work for Artist & his career.

In today’s world of digital art having portfolio in tradition form like printed artworks on fine paper sticked inside leather jacket & having own domain name & website dedicated to showcase portfolio online will build credibility to artist’s professional career

First I will describe what details that portfolio should describe on his portfolio

1. First Page with Introduction to Artist & his Background
2. Title of Artwork
3. Brief Given
4. Method of Approaching to Work & some details
5. Nice High Quality Screen Shots of work
6. Nice Layout & Arrangement of Artworks
7. Year of Design
8. Copyright Notice
9. Artist’s Contact Details
10. Credits
11. A Thank You Note

Here we look in to two ways of building portfolio, Digitally & in Traditional printed form.

Digital Portfolio
A Digital Portfolio may contains of two platforms PDF (Portable Document Format) PDF is Open Standard of Document Exchange, (I will not recommend PPT – Power Point Presentation as it needs Microsoft Powerpoint installer on display machine) & HTML (Website)

Portfolio in PDF File
You can design portfolio in Raster Format through Photoshop & then export it to PDF or Design Portfolio in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign & then export it in to multipage PDF. Having consistent user experience will definitely work to identify you with your artwork.

For almost the last year or two, I have been surrounded by this question….

You want to attend an interview with a big company for a post related to the design industry…

Then what will you carry with your MacBook? or MacBook Air? or iPad…

Carrying your whole work portfolio on a CD or Flash Drive is risky as a recruiter may copy your work to their computer without asking you to do so. So there is the possibility of theft of your intellectual property… So, the right way to carry out your work would be on your Mac.

What would be your next portable machine if you owned a desktop, like an iMac or Mac Pro? A MacBook or MacBook Air or iPad.

It will be the right way to compare these Apple Products would be through their Price, Display Resolution Size, User Interaction and experience.

Practically thinking all are Portables or Tablet & they all have Multi-Touch Gesture Support.

All are costly: MacBook is $1,000, MacBook Air is $1,500, and iPad is $829.

MacBook & MacBook have Mechanical keyboards, but the iPad has a Modern Multi-Touch UI that is groundbreaking in the Industry that even competitors are not catching up with,

iPad 2 is with the duel processing in Tablet Form,

MacBook Air & iPad have no optical media support, but all have WiFi inbuilt… But Adobe Flash Player is not supported on iPad.

iPad Display Resolution is 1024px by 768px, MacBook’s Display Resolution is 1280px by 800px, MacBook Air’s Display Resolution is 1440px by 900px.