Group Tutorial Preperation

What is a CV:

• A summary of your academic and work history.
• A document that contains a summary or/and a list of job experience and education.
• Personal history of education, professional history and job qualifications
• A short account of career and qualifications.
  
• A Personal marketing tool.
• A reflection of a potential employer.
  
• A chance to sell your self, your skills and your experience.
  

What should a CV contain:

• Your name
• Contact details
• A link to a portfolio
• Education and training
• Strengths/Skills
• Career profile
• Career and achievements

What is a portfolio:

• A portfolio is a showcase of the talent and creativity that you have to offer to who ever is looking at it.
• A set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers.
• Graphic design portfolios are graphical résumés. They show real examples of the type of work you have done in the past. It is an indication of the type of work you can do in the future.
• There are 3 main kinds of graphic design portfolios that students generally create. One that is printed, one that is online, and one that is on a DVD or CD.
• A well-prepared portfolio provides "evidence" to an employer of your accomplishments, skills, abilities and it documents the scope and quality of your experience and training.
• It is an organized collection of documentation that presents both your personal and professional achievements in a concrete way.
• Portfolios can range in from something as simple as an online version of your resume to a web site full of materials.
• An online portfolio provides a way to reveal your credentials to the world. It allows you to package the best evidence of your candidacy for employment.

What should a Portfolio contain:

• Consistency
• Two of the strong examples first and last
• A variety of media (online portfolio)
• Quality not quantity
• Add a case study (brief description) under each project
• Keep your portfolio current
• customisable appeal (if you want to work for print, put in print examples) (printed portfolio)
• Contact details
• Your name

What Is A CV

First of all I decided to start looking around for some good CV examples. many of them are plain, boring and really wouldn't stand out in the pile. Then again, most of them are pretty badly designed.

However, this is a "golden oldy" if you will; A CV floating about by a young Graphic Designer from Pickering. I don't know him, it was just somthing we where shown in my ND class at the beginning of second year:
It's got all the right information. Name, Education, Experience and work examples. At first I initially liked it because this guy was a better designer than I was. Looking at his work now for his own BA (hons) course, well opinions change. However, it's still a really good example.

Another example that doesn't have to be digital; it COULD be printed for something to be handled.




Unfortunately, I don't think this designer had that idea. He preferred to show it digitised. Hmmm.


It's interesting, it would probably catch someone's eye's if it was perhaps a little brighter. It shows that they're versatile and that not everything has to be done on a computer.


And not exactly a CV, but teh cover for one. It made me smile none the less.

Problem Analysis - Rationale

OUGD205 - Image

Brief: To produce 4 images to accompany 3 separate articles from the guardian newspaper.

Who Needs To Know: Readers of the Guardian and people interested in the articles.

What Do They Need To Know: That the image accompanying the article responds to the information given by the journalist.

Why Do They Need To Know: Re-enforcing the article and establishing the reasoning behind the information given. To see if the article relates to them and to show the content to the audience.

What Will They Respond To: Correlation between the article and illustration.

What Research Is Required:

• Read each article.
• Investigate each articles subject matter:
• imagery
• related quotations
• Experimental drawings