Follow these requirements for creating each Portfolio Project. Below we have outlined what should go in each field. You can see this in action at our Example Foundations Portfolio website. U.OSU also has a help page for creating a project page.
Watch a video walk thru of the details explained below:
Title
Assignment title (such as “Studio Space Rendering” or “Shape Grammar”)
Publish Date
Set Publish Date as the assignment due date.
For Supplementary Material, date them as April 20, 2023. This is so they show after your Foundations curriculum projects.
View our Publish Date Directions.
View our list showing Project Order.
Project Type
Select the corresponding Project Type for the project from the existing list.
- Design Fundamentals: courses 2110 & 2130
- Visual Principles: courses 2310 & 2330
- Supplementary Material: other projects you wish to include
View our Project Type Directions.
Featured Image
The image representing your project that shows on your Portfolio home page. Select one of your final project images that best represents your final work to use here. The full, un-cropped image should also exist within the body of the Project.
Use these specific details:
- Choose one of your main images (don’t use a detail image)
- Crop the image using a 3:2 ratio. Maintain or show as much of your final work as possible
- Upload to the Featured Image box
View our Featured Image Directions.
Excerpt
Write a brief, 1-sentence description of the project. This will show under the project title on your home page.
Body
Content must be organized in this order:
- Visuals
- Project Description
- Process Post Link
Visuals
Quality final project images or embedded video (if applicable) of your final project work:
- Images: Include a minimum of 2 images of your final work up to a maximum of 4.
Quality images means that images should be clear and in focus with extraneous content removed. Use a neutral background (such as the photo backdrop paper provided in classroom setups) if photographing a physical object. Apply white balance filters, straighten, crop, and adjust images to present your work clearly and accurately. Landscape orientation is highly recommended, but consistent organization is key. You may also consider collaging multiple images or smaller details into a single image for more control over placement, scale, and arrangement than the website standards allow.
Note:PDFs are not images. If your final work is in PDF form, you will need to convert it in some way to either PNG or JPG. - Videos: Embed your video following these directions. You must also include a high-quality still image that represents the video.
All image must be inserted with the settings:
- Caption: write a concise description of the image
- Align: None
- Link to: “Media File”
- Size: Large (Note: if you don’t see Large as an option use “Full Size”)
View our Adding Images Directions.
Additional help on adding media files and working with images.
Project Description
A concise description of your project. Customize this to be about your individual ideas, goals, and outcomes – how you solved the challenge. Concisely outline your perspective and key decisions prompted by the project objectives and parameters (avoid repeating project brief requirements – faculty reviewers are already aware of them.) Your specific project concept statement (if it is a project requirement) will be placed in the project’s Process Journal Post and does not need to be repeated in full here.
Required Format:
- Section titled Project Description using “Heading 2” style
- Body text uses “Paragraph” style
- Maximum 250 words written in paragraph form. Perform spelling and grammar check!
Process Post Link
Link to the corresponding Process Journal post for the project. Supplementary Material will not have a Process link.
Required format:
- Section titled Process Post using “Heading 2” style
- Body text uses “Paragraph” style
- Write: “View detailed project process at”. Insert a link using the link icon. Click the setting wheel and directly select the corresponding project process post from the list. You should have one line of text that reads: View detailed project process at Project Name: Process
View our Process Link Directions.