Course detail

Artist’s Portfolio Design

FaVU-TAPAcad. year: 2023/2024

During the semester, students will learn different ways of creating artist's portfolios. They will be presented with the differences between the printed and electronic portfolio and information on how the presentation of art is important for their future proffesional life (applications for internships, creative residences, study visits, and grants, writing exhibition projects, open call responses, etc.). During the seminars, students will learn the necessary information about what the portfolio has to meet in terms of content and content, learn to format text (eg CV in Czech and English), create descriptions for their works (in Czech and English), secure appropriate photo documentation, and eventually make their own artist's portfolio. During individual consultations, deficiencies will be corrected on an ongoing basis. The course will include a three-part series of lectures by teachers of FaVU VUT from various studios and fields, or their graduates, where students will learn about practical information about why the portfolio is important for its presentation and what are the rules and possibilities of its creation. During the semester, students will be able to consult the form of their projects at the Binding Workshop of the FaVU VUT, where they will also be able to print and bind them at the end.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

Common user skills in working with text and graphic editors. Working with texts in Czech language is not a requirement, the portfolio can also be made in Slovak or English.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The credits are awarded on the basis of active participation in lectures, seminars and handing over of practical output.

Classes are held in the classrooms of the KTDU of the FFA BUT and in the Bookbinding Workshop of the FFA BUT during the hours specified in the timetable. Attendance is compulsory (2 unexcused absences allowed). During the semester, students submit tasks according to assignments.

Aims

The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with the issue of creating an author's portfolio (printed or digital) on the basis of introductory lectures and practical exercises focused on working with text, photo documentation and graphic editing. The output of the semester course will be a printed author's portfolio.

Realization of an artist’s portfolio in Czech and English. Students will get practically acquainted with working procedures leading to successful presentation of their own artistic work.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

AMBROSE, Gavin a Paul HARRIS. Grafický design: formát. Brno: Computer Press, 2011. Základy designu. ISBN 978-80-251-2966-1.
AMBROSE, Gavin a Paul HARRIS. Grafický design: tisk a dokončovací práce. Brno: Computer Press, 2011. Základy designu. ISBN 978-80-251-2968-5.
BERAN, Vladimír. Aktualizovaný typografický manuál. Osmé vydání. Praha: Kafka design, 2016.
BLAŽEK, Filip. Typokniha. Praha: Nakladatelství UMPRUM, 2022. (CS)
NEDOMOVÁ, Jana. Otázky kvality v tvorbě a v prezentaci studenta na VŠ s umělecko-pedagogickým zaměřením (disertační práce), PedF MU, Brno 2019. (CS)

Type of course unit

Lecture

6 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Karel Bařina, DiS.
Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1 / What is a portfolio and what is it for, text formatting principles
2 / Introduction to various types of artist's portfolios / artist’s presentation
3 / Curriculum vitae
4 / Photo documentation
5 / Titles and captions
6 / Printed portfolio
7 / Web Portfolio (cooperation with the Department of Information Technologies)
8 / Consultations
9 / Printing and finishing work at the FFA Binding Workshop (printing and binding)

Lecture series:
1 / Graphic designer’s lecture
- graphic layout of a portfolio (introduction of possible presentation methods)
2 / Photographer's lecture
- how to create photo documentation properly
3 / Practicing Artist’s Lecture
- how to respond to open calls, role of portfolio in presentation of one’s creative work, etc.

Practical class

20 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.