Help Me Build A New Portfolio
March 5th, 2007I’m still getting over my “flu” or what I now believe to be a secret conspiracy between two illnesses simultaneously to infiltrate my body. I started to get cold symptoms on Thursday—sore throat and headache and took zinc and ate what I thought would be a comforting hot meal at the Comfort Diner. One of those two things set off a 4-day riot of stomach upset/food poisoning which ended on Sunday. I now am picking up where I left off with standard cold symptoms, which I will heavily be dosing with Dayquil/Nyquil/Vodkaquil with no breaks ‘til it breaks.
I am “working” again, which means sitting in a hot cubicle and not talking to anyone or doing anything for six hours a day. In case you think I’m lazy for coming in after 11, I could easily stretch that to nine hours of doing nothing, but I’m giving the company a break on paying me those extra hours. I suspect I will be laid off again, especially since my supervisor of the last two weeks just left for another job leaving no one around to tell me I have nothing to do.
In preparation for that and also to fill my time, I’m trying to assemble a new portfolio of my work with 12-or-so of each design and illustration work (24 total, to be split in two collections) I have an actual physical portfolio (thing with a handle) which I’ve never used for anything, so I’m going to make the best use of my time (and the office’s color printer). I’m also going to redo the site one of these days and limit the pieces on the site to just those 24 and direct people to go to flickr if they want to see the rest of it.
I have an idea of what I want to put in and some “greatest hits” from my earlier portfolios, but let me know what you’d want to see if you were a client, I guess. I also am not opposed to creating some new stuff just for the portfolio… God knows I have time…Here’s quick links to Flickr.