New Book

So i've opened the second book required for this semesters portfolio class. As we have been told time upon time, we shouldn't be worrying about the class, grade, academic aspect rather we should focus solely on entering the creative world. With this being said, I rephrase my first sentence to, I have opened the second book that will lead me to future success with my portfolio and career. (By the way, the book is Building Design Portfolio, by Sara Eisenman.)

"One way to begin is to remember that this is just one portfolio; you can redesign it next year or next week. Knowing this can make any big project less intimidating."

Thank God for the fact that a portfolio can be edited. Now going through more of the motions of putting the portfolio together and looking at all the pieces that either need editing or that need to be acknowledged, understanding it can be fixed and updated literally forever is such a calming thought. This ending product is never really ending. What we present to professionals come the final class, the presentation class, will change in a matter of months, maybe weeks or even days! As designers we are always finding new and better ways to display our creativity and not one way is permanent.

Something interesting...

" For recent graduates, design work generally addresses problems they were asked to solve in class, and those samples inevitably reflect the influence of specific teachers."

This is so true and yet so questionable. When out of college if lucky enough to have an internship one many have work from the actual creative world to display to a professional but if not lucky enough...is it just assignments that represent each of us as graphic designers? For me, personally I have not had the chance to have a design internship. I don't have work done under a professionals wing to display the final week during interviews. How much is this going to hurt me? I'm going to have the same projects many of my peers have unless we have not shared the same professors. Regardless will my work just be repetitive or is skill just skill and no matter what I can succeed based on my own identity. This is definitely something to think about which I haven't thought about before.

Another question that comes to mind, if from school we display what we have done in our classes, is this really our creativity? Is it a professors creativity that we brought our own spin to? I guess in the real world we will always have assignments and we will just have to edit them and create around them using our own skills and what we are expected of. Maybe there is no difference, and maybe a graduate with many items of work could be looked at the same as any creative creator.