Show Case, 2nd Edition

INTRODUCTION

Introduction to Developing and Maintaining a Design-Tech Portfolio: A Guide for Theatre, Film, and TV, First Edition

At the time that I finished graduate design school as a costume designer, a portfolio was a fairly uncomplicated affair. It consisted of a case: leather if you could afford it, plastic or fabric covered if you could not. We had all been encouraged to draw large sketches in school, so our portfolios were, out of necessity, also large, usually measuring 24 × 36 inches. Inside they were equipped with flimsy plastic pages, which we eventually replaced with the infinitely preferable, but also significantly heavier, polypropylene (vinyl) pages.

The rules were simple: produced work in the front, class projects in the back, ...