[General Confusion]

with the popularity of web based portfolios, and such, do those of you who freelance for a living find it necessary to have traditional hard copy portfolios?

if the answer is yes, what materials do you use for reproduction. When I was doing traditional illustration long before website were even popular, I had to maintain a portfolio/book of my work to show clients. It was costly, since I chose to have high quality repro of my work. Since that time in my career, I have held full time staff positions which basically dictated me to not have am active book anymore. Now I'm back in the freelance world, and currently have been acquiribng work based on my online portfolio, I have not found the need to have a paper portfolio. But I'm looking to find newer clients, and was wondering what the industry norm is today..

What size book is appropriate?
What type of repro do AD's prefer?

thinsg liek that are what I'm interested in learning.

thanks everyone

[bld]

Some clients may want to see a paper portfolio, and in any case, it is MUCH more satisfying to a person to hold something in their hands and look at it.

[Frog]

In 90% of cases these days a website is enough, however I still have several books that I keep in circulation as well. The advantage of books is that AD's can take them into meetings with clients, they tend to show your work off better than a computer screen and many people still prefer to flick through a portfolio rather than look at a website.

There are also a handful of clients who like to stick to their habits of old, and will not even consider looking at a website. Since this is still quite common in advertising (where many ADs still work without computers at all), not having a book could prove quite costly in terms of losing the best paid work.

The good news is that inkjet printers are so good these days there really is no need to use repro, an A4 or A3 inkjet print in a portfolio's plastic sleeve looks great. So at least producing one or several copies of a book is a lot cheaper now

[B0b]

i use both, the website captures them, and you take ur hard copy along 2 show and 'tell', nothing like talking about your work face to face,

altho' i got some work yesterday based solely on my site..

[hans_e]

I use both as well; however, I have also found good results with an interactive portfolio burned to a minidisc. I usually am applying to a graphics firm or advertising agency who might have an overflow of work and tend to use the same techknology. That way they know without a doubt that I can take on their work with little instruction.

[B0b]

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Originally posted by B0b:
altho' i got some work yesterday based solely on my site..

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well they think im now the dogs bollox and have given me even more work WOOHOO! and more work commin l8r this week 2..