To apply for an art college, you need to pass the professional examination of the school. In fact, it mainly depends on students' artistic accomplishment, that is, speaking with works. The admission ratio of the top 500 art colleges in the United States is about 100: 1. American art majors cannot apply to all schools with the same portfolio. Some colleges require students to have interdisciplinary ability, while others require students to specialize in technical subjects. Which works should appear in the application materials, and the arrangement order will affect the application results. Artist presentation is also a very important link in the application materials. How to find a theoretical foothold for one's own works is very important for the application of American art colleges.
Here are some small mistakes that are often made in portfolio typesetting. Come and have a look.
The page layout is bloated.
The layout of the portfolio page is also very particular about methods. Many people put many different elements on the same page through various overlapping ways in the typesetting process of their portfolios. Although the number of pages in the portfolio is limited, many people will arrange the pages very bloated in order to show their abilities as much as possible in the limited number of pages. This will not only improve the design content, but also reduce the quality of the portfolio. The original fresh and refined fairy was dressed as a bejeweled landlord, which was really not worth the candle.
Inconsistent format
Different typesetters often have inconsistent formats, because a set of characters has to be discharged in a short time, and only care about their own design content, without good unification and inspection, which will lead to problems such as different distances between pictures and their surroundings, different font sizes and different arrangement methods. Text is a whole visual reading, and reading should pay attention to reading experience and make changes on the basis of unifying similar contents.
This picture is too full.
Roughly the same as the first question, a lot of blank space is used to highlight the center of the picture and the artistic conception of expression. Each paragraph of text is equivalent to a painting, and the composition and form of the picture will directly affect the reader's psychological feelings. Too full picture, intuitive psychological feeling is full and closed, which makes the picture have no visual center and weak sense of design.
Poor color perception
Students often don't pay attention to the choice and collocation of colors in the process of designing texts, and often choose pure colors of red, green and purple, and their understanding and sensitivity to color knowledge are not enough, so the overall text quality will be greatly reduced.
A good text must be careful in color selection. After comparison, it will generally not choose pure color, which also reflects the designer's aesthetic ability and feeling.
The analysis diagram is not well expressed.
More than half of the drawings in the design text are composed of analysis diagrams, and many people's understanding of analysis diagrams still stays in routine analysis such as traffic, streamline, landscape and vision. We should know that the analysis chart is a comprehensive analysis of the process of architecture, and how to express it clearly, vividly and interestingly is what we should do. However, our usual analysis methods are always the same, and drawing straight lines with color blocks is far from enough to fully express a building.
The typesetting of the portfolio is not good
Many students' works are very rich in content, but they lack professional typesetting and creative sentences; Because there is no post-typesetting guidance, no matter how good the work is, it can't reflect personal artistic characteristics.
Your portfolio shows your artistic potential. Preparing the portfolio is an exciting process, which avoids some problems that are easy to make in typesetting, and finally shows you an exquisite portfolio, which makes you take another big step away from the top art colleges ~