Portfolio Design

After completion of my CV, I have began to plan out my portfolio. Before I began to add content I decided on my colour scheme and font. I have decided to keep the theme of my CV and incorporate it into my portfolio.

The colour scheme I have chosen is:

I will primarily use the two pink colours for my portfolio.

The next decision I made is the font for my portfolio. Again, I have to decided to keep my cv design consistent with my portfolio and have decided to use the font Delihi previously used within my Curriculum Vitae. I have downloaded this font from dafont.com and have installed into both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

My next step was to decide on what content I will include in my portfolio. I will include a table of contents, my cv and my projects. I have decided to include projects I have completed last semester and projects I have completed from my previous course over the last four years.

Upon research of various portfolios, many people add a mood-board to describe themselves within their portfolio. Im still making a decision to add a mood-board to my portfolio to add a sense of personalisation and portray my personality to potential employers.

As I have decided on my overall colour scheme, font, and potential content I will begin to design my portfolio using the Adobe suite.

Assignment 1: The next step!- Development of my CV

After careful research of various portfolios and CV's, my step was to develop my own excellent designed CV. To do this, I used various examples I have researched to customise to my own preference.

Before I began, I decided on a colour scheme that I plan to use in relation to my cv and portfolio. I then decided on what fonts I would like to use and finally I decided on my skills and information I need to display on my CV.


Colours
The colour scheme I have chosen is a palette that contains, pinks, blue's, yellows and browns. I found this palette from colourlovers.com

Why Pink?

Overall, I plan to use the two shades of pink primarily for my cv and incorporate the various other colours into my portfolio. Pink is a combination of the colours red and white. Pink contains the need for action of red, helping to achieve potential success. With this CV I hope to successfully secure a job within the sector of Information Technology.

Fonts

The next decision was the fonts I would use on my CV. I decided on two fonts. These fonts are Delhi regular and Segoe UI Light.

Contents of CV

Finally, I decided on what information I thought was extremely important to include on a cv for potential employers. This information included:

• A basic summary about myself
• This summary will describe my latest education, past education and skills I have developed in the last few years
• General information
• General information will contain information on my location and age
• Education information
• Education information will contain information on my latest and previous course that I have completed. I also decided to include my awards of my degrees.
• Work Experience information
• My work experience includes information on my previous experience, location of this experience and the dates of these jobs
• My Interest
• To make my CV more personal, I decided to included a few of my interests. I will display these interests using infographics
• My Skills
• I will list my technical skills on my cv. This skills will also be displayed using infographics
• My Contact details
• My contact details will include my mobile number, my email address, my Behance link and my LinkedIn link.

To ensure my CV is eye-catching I have decided to use various info-graphics to make my cv look more quirky and professional. The software I plan to use is Adobe Photoshop. Once my cv is complete I will upload it to Behance and begin to develop my portfolio.