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Creative Portfolio: Overlooked Design Possibility – Postal Stamps
This article presents the third project in this portfolio series, a look at postal stamp designs that – unlike an enlarged poster format – challenges your skills at merging type and image elements in a small print format.
The Portfolio Project: Postal Stamp Design
PORTFOLIO PROJECT: Postal Stamp Design. Postal stamps are often overlooked as a portfolio element, as it seems that everyone these days communicates by email. But, your skills with type and images on a small format can show a client or prospective employer that you are adept with detailed work. With the online debut of such venues like Photo Stamps and Zazzle, you can use this format to add extra business to your growing clientele base as well.
TOOLS: Any computer graphics program that allows you to produce image files; sketchbook and notebook for concepts; colour wheel; list of elements and principles of design (a list of elements of design is included at the end of this article).
WHAT YOU’LL ACCOMPLISH: This tutorial will encourage you to think creatively and analytically about merging type and images in a miniscule format, a design problem that increases your ability to think and work minimally with all your projects.
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.