One specific option is to come up with some form of publication, which will act as a sort of catalog for my work. This has been done by a number of practitioners previously, and often acts as a really nice physical object that they send to clients and other professionals.
I feel that this would also be relevant to my practice as publications have cropped up a number of times. As mentioned previously, this publication-type-portfolio could be a way for me to not only showcase certain images of my work, but present them in an interesting way as I would play with arrangement and page layout.
NEASDEN CONTROL CENTRE
Gestalten is the first collection of works by NCC. Pages of drawings, photocopies and scanned images, photographs, found objects, and typography. All of these disparate elements come together to give a sense of the artist/artists who collaborated on this collection. Experimental, process-driven, playful.
Unusual layouts, double-page spreads, full page images next to tiny scaled images too. There appears to be no common thread besides the work belonging to the same person/people. I also like how the pieces aren't labelled with 'editorial' 'exhibition', or other uses they may have had. This leaves the artwork open to many different contexts and applications for those reading or even those commissioning.
SCOTT BAKAL
Copies of this portfolio were available to look at in the studio. Slightly more straightforward in terms of content compared to Neasden Control Centre, this publication featured full page images of his work, accompanied by small captions that outlined context and clients.
A simpler approach to layout and aesthetic but still effective and successful as a finished object.
HENRIK DRESCHER
Not so much a portfolio, but a fully published book by Chronicle Books, this is a loosely narrative collection of works by the artist. It's reassuring to me that an established publisher would put out work like this, not just 'clean' illustration/art.
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