Design Romp: Eliminating visual disease with portfolio

Portfolio is anti-climactic. Just like every other semester of college, but when I say that the end is near....I mean it.

The end of college. The end of graphic design homework. The end of sitting in the design lab for 15 hrs.

I'm excited. I want to get in the big people world and join the other graphic designers of the world. Right now I have started to design my portfolio book while finishing up the last bit of tweaking on my 12 projects. I am super pumped for my portfolio book because I want it to be an experience...something that a viewer will want to flip through and read time after time because they enjoyed it. My portfolio will not be only about the projects filling it, but an interactive experience that will display who I am as a person and a designer.

I want it to be humorous and bold. I want it to be fun and daring.

Here is a draft of my opening pages. I want it to almost be like a conversation filled with patterns and pictures and laughter.

Again, this is only a first draft so this will change a lot by the time I show it to the judges at the AIGA review on April 16th.

Oh, and for my final portfolio project I am doing a collaborative guerrilla art style project with my friend Corey. It is called 'visual disease: the war on bad art'. I am currently making a website for it so take a look and get involved. We are waging 'war' on bad designs by eliminating the visual disease of ugly advertisements and other designs that clutter our visual world. We want to inspire people to print or buy stickers that we create that are typographic weapons to stick on top of the 'bad design'. We would love if this grew and other people would take initiative in their own cities to participate.