Hey, thanks for the kind message. Yes - pls find and do what you love and others will also find Inspiron in you because of the freedom you’re living through your art. I wish u the best!

hahah. Thats awesome. Best of Luck.

Thats awesome. Thanks for the note.

Hi, somehow I overlooked your comment. That makes me so happy, even though this was around 6 years ago!? Wow. I hope you found a good direction and that everything worked out well for you. I would love to hear an update.

Abhishek Singh Super! I'm happy the video was helpful.

Konica Gupta thanks a ton. Glad this video helps others.

Sorry it took me so long to reply... We are in the middle of finishing up my job here and moving etc. You can do it!!! Just have confidence and believe in yourself. You´re already on the right track.

William lillicrapp very nice! Good luck to ya.

Sarca Gausjz Ashur Rebaddra hahaha! It's so true. I need to work on my ability to look cool without being so obvious. To be fair, my throat was pretty scratchy. ;)

jamila amn thanks for the awesome comment.

That's awesome! I wish you luck.

One more thing I want to ask, what do industries prefers now a filed portfolio or a portfolio on a website? Please answer

Hey!!! Thats great. That makes me very happy, and thank you for the good wishes. Have fun on your portfolio!

Your welcome. :)

Shoba Peters 👋 hey! Thank you very much. :)

KumaNyan das freut mich sehr! Danke für Deine Kommentar.

Mr. Chow haha. Awesome. Thx mate, blessings to you as well.

Uri Levy thank you. :)

Lavanya Kumar wow, attention to detail! Thank you very much. :)

@@wiwastudios5666 would like to hear more from you on graphic design tips. pls make more videos on graphic design.

Thats great, man! I wish you all the best.

Haha. I realized later after watching, I should have cut that part out. Sometimes you get busted for trying to be cool. ;) I actually did drink something though. ;)

@@wiwastudios5666 awww❤😅

imharsha 22 that's great! I'm happy the video is helpful and wish you much luck on your portfolio and future.

Sena, schade das du schlechte Erfahrungen gemacht hast und nach zwei Jahre das abgebrochen hast. Ich wünsche dir natürlich viel Erfolg bei deine neue Sache. Also, manche kommen leicht rein aber ich weis auch das viele abgelehnt werden. Ich versuche für mich immer Mühe zu geben und meine besten Sachen zu liefern. Aber so bin ich geprägt einfach. Natürlich hätte ich auch mit weniger Mühe reinkommen können aber für mich geht es nicht darum nur das einfachste zu machen. Ich hoffe natürlich das meine Dozenten das auch sehen und auch viel in mir investieren.

hahah... Thanks a lot. :) I think the most important thing is to show that you work creatively, show and explain a bit of your thinking process etc. Show that you are interested in something. Most private schools need your money anyways. ;) The best of luck.

WindandWater Studios damn that was a private school too? :D So its even easier to get in...

KaiK96 haha! ♨️

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Sonam Gandhi hahah! Thank you very much. :) I’m glad it was helpful!

Prathiksha Raja that’s awesome! Thanks. :)

I need some help tho!!

Prathiksha Raja ok, hopefully I can help you out. :)

Irwandi Latip hey! That’s great. I wish you all the best!

TheRyanToYourBrendon Hey! That's great. I'm happy it helps. 👍

Thanks, mate!

@@wiwastudios5666 Yes Dear

VONLIM911 hey, that's great! The best of luck.

sure thing!

Hey! That's awesome. Where are you moving from? Where are you moving to? Ja, private Unis are expensive... Glad I could help. I'm sure you'll do great!

Thank you so much for the vote of confidence haha, i'm actually moving from Zimbabwe (Thats in Africa) and i will be moving to Berlin. With a state university, the language of instruction is German so i'll be learning German too while i work on my portfolio.

Thats awesome! Well, your English is pretty amazing. Im sure you'll be able to learn German quickly. Let me know when you're in Berlin. Lets meet up for a coffee or something. Ill be moving in September.

Awesome idea, i will most certainly contact you :) I'll be moving pretty soon i think!

+ATA Plant that's great. Ja, definitely let me know. And yes, I'm a Youth Pastor in my Church now. We can talk about Design and Jesus. ;)

Caesaar that's great. No problem

Hey, thats great. Thank you for the comment.

Thank you.

Thank you. I absolutely agree that 11"x11" is a good size. 8x8 is a small book. You have a big future with a very strong beginning. Good Luck! I am a Senior Graphic Designer. I live in Denver, Colorado, USA. I step down from design and start marketing. I was Vice Preident of Marketing for one year. I back who I was born to be a Designer. This is why I need to update my portfolio to find a job as a Graphic Designer. The gift is a strong power. You always will be who you born to do it matter what path you are taking. You always back to the path you have to be. Yout gift will bring you back to your path. Have you heard about www.lynda.com? 1,000 tutorial and classes online, new technology, new software, new world creativity and skills with monthly membership for $24. I have 300 hours online for 13 years. Lynda.com is a great tool to become the best graphic designer or who you want to be. It shapes my life and career. Lynda.com has tutorial on the portfolio book using blurb.com. www.blurb.com/getting-started?tab=tab-photo-books www.lynda.com/Home-Computing-Photography-tutorials/Creating-Photo-Books-with-Blurb/86639-2.html

Lyubov Strauss awesome. Thank you very much and much luck to your future plans.

Thank you. :)

Thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot! Greetings from Germany. :)

Thats a great idea, and something I've thought about doing. I've taken a pause in making videos for a while, but plan to start back up soon, and this will definitely be on my top list of videos to do.

rod jasper b sure thing!

Jeff hey, yeah, the books are bound. So once you’ve ordered one, there can be no changes made. There may be other bounding or book options you can look at that better suites your needs.

Yeah, thats correct. In my opinion and situation, it was worth it. I won't need to show a portfolio very often, and when I do need one, I can add or delete any works, and then order another for only 18€. Back in the day, it would have been impossible to order such a nice book without having to order a lot of them! Now days, there are many websites, where one can order One exemplar! Its pretty awesome if you ask me. But use whatever fits your needs of course!

Thanks a lot!

Thank you. I plan to start back up soon doing Videos. Some things came up in Life and I took a pause, but want to start creating good content again.

Thank you! :)

Eliza Miyano hi, so sorrry! I’ve been so busy trying to get all projects finished. I’m at a private Akademie called, HTK-Berlin. It’s in the same building as the Fachhochschule, UE-Germany. So, our admittance is completely different... I can’t really help on that one. Sorry, and good luck.

XXX1234ABC hi. It was my portfolio to get into a private academy, or similar to a vocational school. It's called an Ausbildung in Germany. It would be closely related to an undergraduate program, although, depending on the school, the undergraduate program may be a harder one to get into. Hope that helps.

Thats a quality question. I guess what I would do, If I have never had any contact with that person before, I would first send an email, around the beginning of the week. Then I would call 1-3 days later, trying to reach that specific person on the phone, just letting them know: I wanted to make sure they got my email (If they haven't already sent a reply) and if they have had an opportunity to consider me etc. If you send an email first, then when you call, you can remind them of it. Its really all about trying to stay in their memory. One time, I got a job in a nice Photography studio with absolutely no experience, just because I called several times showing initiative. Hope that helps. There may be others who have different advice. Good luck!

Thats awesome! Thx a ton. :)

Rohit philip sure thing!

Divya Raviraj hi, it’s right where I’ve written, “print book:” the website is from epubli.

Sure. Thank you. :)

Hey, I appreciate it! thx. No, I didn't do any apprenticeships or courses before I started studying. I just taught myself a bit here and there over a few years, and when I knew I wanted to study design, I tried to in preparation to do as much as possible for any friends or anything like that.

MoHd AnAz you're welcome! :)

Thx a-lot. If I remember correctly, it was 30,5cm x 30,5 cm. Or 25cm x 25cm. I wouldn't go any smaller than that.

Thank you. Yes, I agree that 11"x11" book is a great size for the portfolio. 8"x8" book is a small book www.lynda.com/Behance-tutorials/Getting-started-your-portfolio/642472/704255-4.html

Hey, thanks a lot! I'm glad it's helpful.

Oh, thats cool! Maybe we will see each other there. :) I haven't started yet, so I can't really give much personal experience with btk/htk, but im sure its a great option. Thats why im going there. :) Im sure there is a way to get Scholarships. The best there is for you to just write them an email.I was told by the director that a large percentage of the students also work on the side for extra income, so this is possible. I will try and get a small side job as well somewhere. Hopefully in a Design Agency. Berlin is a big city but its still not as expensive as places like Hamburg, or München. I think it should be possible to find something affordable or even a WG. Good luck man!

Ruhaan Pathan I would be glad to. But I’ll be honest. :)

Lujain A thank you very much!

Hi Caroline, I'm happy my video is helpful for you! Thats great. It is kind of a mixture. All of the Paintings and Drawings, I just put on a white Table with some good lighting and took Photos of them with my Canon 700D Camera. I then put the Photos in Photoshop and cut out all I didn't need in the picture and put the paintings/drawing on a white background. If you don't have photoshop yet, this would be a good place to start. Just take some time and find out a way to download Photoshop and play and learn. You can learn everything on KZfaq. All of the Logo stuff I started by sketching my ideas on Papier and then drew the Logos on the computer using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. You could theoretically als scan them if you have a good scanner, or go to a local shop and they can scan it for you. But our scanner was not good or big enough for that. But don't worry if you can't do too much on the Computer yet with the programs. Thats why you are going to school for them to teach you. I wish you the best of luck!

+WindandWater Studios thanks for explaining to me!!! I really appreciate it. It was so details... I think I got some idea for my portfolio ! THKS

Caroline Song You're Welcome.

Wilhelmine Wachter Hi! Sorry it has taken me so long to write. We have been very busy. We have been here for about 1 week now, although my wife is back home until we find an apartment. I am staying with some friends until then. It's pretty crazy and difficult to find an apartment here! Just keep believing God will give us favor in the right timing to find someone. I was at the men's conference tonight from that church you mentioned which was great. So far that's the only English speaking church I know of so far. Maybe try ICF but I don't know if they are speaking English or not... I'll let you know if I hear of another one. 👍

Hey there, no worries. Glad to hear you arrived safely. It is pretty hectic finding a flat *sigh* they require so much for the application. Anyway I believe God can work out something good as long as we place it in His hands and trust in Him. I pray favour and open doors for you and your family. Thank you for the reference, i will check out ICF. Have a good day :)

Thank you so much fore the prayers. I will pray the same for you! Let me know what you think of ICF! :)

lucyouhou martin thank you! Ugh... I don’t think I can manage that. I do apologize

uyen ha gia hi, I'll get back to you later with a answer for all of your questions. ;)

WindandWater Studios i knew i asked a lot =)) thanks by the way

Hi, sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you. 1) It might be different for you if you were not born or have not lived in Germany for a certain number of years. The State Universities, can be free here for the Germans. Although, they have to pay a certain Perzent of that back when they have work after their studies are finished. Private Universities usually provide smaller or more familiar and classes. You can have good conversation with your Professors. In a normal university, you could be sitting there with hunderds of people. Private Unis also pride themselves in being ver praxis oreinted. Private Unis cost more, but you can get something called BAföG. Thats money from the State that helps with costs for the University or an apartment (living costs). 2) It all depends on the school. Every Uni is different and has different requirements in what they want to see in the portfolio. Many times you can visit Workshops where they help you and give you tips on your portfolio. I know they provide these at BTK. 3) I also dont know too many. I only know of a few in Berlin. BTK, HTK, Design Akademie, Macro Media. I hope this helps. :)

WindandWater Studios das ist unglaublich hilfreich. Ich hab die ganze Zeit nach solcher Informationen gesucht und noch keine, die ich nutzen kann, gefunden. Jetzt kann ich mindesten mit diesen anfangen, eine Lösung herauszufinden. Danke schön! Your works are worth to learn, wirklich so. Danke nochmal. :D

WindandWater Studios das ist unglaublich hilfreich. Ich hab die ganze Zeit nach solcher Informationen gesucht und noch keine, die ich nutzen kann, gefunden. Jetzt kann ich mindesten mit diesen anfangen, eine Lösung herauszufinden. Danke schön! Your works are worth to learn, wirklich so. Danke nochmal. :D

J Lizaso hey! Well, I think that depends on the school. Out of my gut feeling, I wouldn't recommend it. But you could just email them in advance and maybe just ask them. They may also have a laptop and Beamer setup there that you could connect to and do your presentation from a Beamer. You'd need a USB stick and probably a PDF file to do that.

Universities like to see the content in the medium it is intended for, most importantly paper items to be paper as colours react differently when comparing screen and ink. so if you have a poster design they would want it physically there .

Thx for the tip, Amy.

Dankeschön!

Hey, no problem. Glad the video is helpful.

Di Kellier Hi, I'm going to htk-berlin. You can google it. They also have the FH btk-Berlin in the same building. :)

Di Kellier hey a quick question, in what language is the lecture there?

Mega Diagma Hi, you can study in German or in English. :)

Thank you! 👍

Reza Safira hi, im studying Communications Design at HTK-Berlin. They also provide English courses. You may want to look into that. I'll answer the rest of your questions later when I have more time.

Reza Safira Sorry, I realized replied from my other account. What courses do they offer for you to take? I really depends on the university that you want to apply for. Some Unis are very strickt, some will tell you exactly what the want to see and some just want to see that you can think creatively and can problem solve. You can always look up a Mappen course where you go and they help you to put together a portfolio. I hope this helps.

WindandWater Studios I haven't decided yet what uni will i attend, i'm looking for the studienkolleg for foreigners who are willing to continue their study in Germany. I've googled abt it and i only found only ONE studienkolleg that provides GD kurs. Maybe you know another studienkolleg that provides GD kurs?

Thanks a lot, Rodriguez!!!

Cheyanne Parker Parker15 thanks! :)

Alberto Cuntre it's a square A4 Format. 20,5x20,5 cm

Gracias eres genial!! Thanhs ure so cute

Alberto Cuntre you're welcome. Thx. :) haha

Alexandra Silaghi search for free for commercial use photos other wise you wont be able to use them.

Alexandra Silaghi Hello, sorry, for some reason KZfaq is not showing me all comments. For personal use or just practicing you shouldn't run into trouble using most pics from google for example. As soon as you design for others it profit you have to find free license photos or buy the rights for them and sell them for a profit to the person/business your doing the design for. You can use the site, pixabay.com. It's a great place to get pics people load on the site to use for free. Just need to make a free account.

Brandon M thx for the help. 👍

Yahye Wardhere I did a square format. 20,5x20,5 cm. On the website from Epubli, you can choose from several formats. I liked square because it's a bit different.

Ray Cowie hI, I’m not exactly sure what you mean or how to answer your question. Can you maybe give a time reference from the video?

@@wiwastudios5666 Hi, sorry I should've been more specific. At 1:45 you say you added some stuff about the school... what did you write about?

@@raymondpcowie101 Oh, now I got ya! Thx for specifying. Basically, I only had a few bits of info material they hand out, and I was prepared to answer some questions as to why I would want to study there. Some people may ask regarding your motivation to study at that particular institute. Hope that helps.

@@wiwastudios5666 Cheers

@@raymondpcowie101 Sure thing.

Nicole Jeong mostly Photoshop and some illustrator. If I did it new now I would probably do the most of something like that in Adobe Indesign. It's better for layouts.

mahmod abu shamsieh thx mate! 20,5 x 20,5 cm is the size. Basically a DIN A4 square format.

Thank you man ! because i want to make the same size i liked it, it's so simple !

mahmod abu shamsieh that's great. Happy to help. I order mine at epubli and I'm very happy.

Faizan Anjum I would go bigger. :)

15x20

11x14 landscape but get a screw post portfolio because you will need to add/remove some art work and you dont want to buy a whole new book.

Diamonster haha. You don't have to be great at drawing, but it's useful to sketch up some quick ideas or if you're in a meeting with a client. It's always a skill you should practice, but the most of my colleges are not pro's in drawing. A few people are really good.

Drawing ability is a funny thing. I'm not surprised they just glossed over your illustrations, many of which looked very strong by the way. One of my main passions is illustration, and I'm quite good at it, but I almost never showcase traditional illustrations in my portfolio because most jobs I interview for are interested in design/layouts and not how well I can handle pencils or paint. In short, you don't have to be a fine artist to be good at graphic design, but it certainly can help.

Thanks for the additional knowledge. I guess you're right in that it really depends on what kind of work you want to do afterward.

I should point out, however, that while stand-alone illustration samples are often not worth showing for a graphic design role, it might be helpful to show your illustrations as incorporated into your design pieces (i.e. a flower painting in a book jacket design). Then you can take credit for both the design and illustration and gain appreciation for both talents, whereas a lot of authority figures might not appreciate illustration skills outside of a graphic design context.

I agree. I read both point of views, that one should specialize in their subject and others say that one should cover a wide spectrum. I think in todays world one should be pretty flexible and be able to show a few different talents. When they work together, even better.

alex haha. Thx! I keep the right hand long for picking on the guitar. Left hand short. ;)

Precious beth Maikano hey, not at all. That was just a tip of mine, to try and impress the judges a bit more. I think a lot of people don’t have “legit” work in their portfolio, and they are accepted.

Derryn Raymond hahaha! I play the guitar. I keep the right hand nails long for picking the strings. The left hand is short for use in the finger-neck. :) 🤞

Ah thanks bro. Didn't expect you to comment ☺️ loved the video. Your unique ideas to your portfolio is sure fire to stand out strong amongst the rest. Great ideas! Keep it up with the content👍🙌

Derryn Raymond oh, I try and keep up with all comments. :) thanks man. I appreciate it!

venkata suneel basically undergrad.

Em A haha. Well, sorry about that mate.

Alexandra Salas for some reason I haven't seen your comment yet. Sorry about that. First I will do my Ausbildung. That's kind of like a community college in the USA. But not really... anyways, I would first have to do my Bachelor and then I could think about the Masters degree.

Doing a masters in design is not always in everyone's best interest- especially because because as a designer your work is primarily based on your portfolio and prior experiences. (plus a lot of people don't have the option of a masters, because its only in very specific schools)

I think it depends on the person. Some people may do the Master some others don't. I don't see the big deal. I think that studying a Master can help you to find more about the subject you are interested, like a specific thing. If you have the chance to study, take it :)

Alexandra Salas i guess at that point its really about whether u can spare the time

Well, yeah time is really important. Have a nice day :)

thomas melody hey, what do you mean exactly? Do you mean the camera settings?

WindandWater Studios I mean zoom in on the book so we can see

thomas melody I got ya. Sorry about that and thx for the tip.

HOLF HALEY I'm in the German speaking course, but they do offer the course in English.