My Interior Design Blog

Sorry I haven’t been around the last two days, I had the worse migraine headache ever… I woke up with it, and went to bed with it, it’s just can’t be described.

Last time we were talking about the home test that everybody has to have. This post we are going to discuss the Admission Portfolio itself. So, let’s start with the requirements, you need to have between 20 to 30 projects. They all could be drawn, or you can also have some 3D objects like; pottery, woodwork etc’

In my portfolio it’s pretty obvious that I chose to stay closer to the 2dimensional projects. From the simple reason that it is the safest area for me, even though I didn’t have experience with it as well. How did I know what to do and with what medium to use? Well, I was fortunate enough to have find a girl on craigslist that gave away free samples for people who major in Interior Design. When I came to pick up the samples I have brought along my portfolio, well part of it, to be exact since I had only 3 or 4 drawings done. She was really nice and agreed to take a look at what I have done so far and I didn’t like the look on her face when she flipped the pages. “Is it good?” I asked. She smiled at me and said, “I’m sorry to say, but everything is wrong.” She started pointing out things, I almost started crying, than she said something that changed everything. “FIT are not a big fond of color pencils, try to use prismacolor markers, they are the best!” She showed me 3 of her drawings from her admission portfolio. It didn’t look too complicated to execute. The same day I went on eBay and ordered 72 markers (by the way, eBay is the cheapest place to buy those markers, don’t buy them at stores!!)

When I got the markers I started drawing, but it was wrong. Everything was wrong. I was disappointed with myself, I thought it would be the easiest part, but it turned out to be the hardest. I tried to look online for portfolio examples but I didn’t find anything. There are two options, either I didn’t look hard enough, or there was nothing to look for. That’s when I decided to write this blog, I know it took me a while, but better later than never The next step was just to look for interior pictures that I like and try to mimic them. No, not copy, and there is a big difference.

The evaluators are not expecting you to have a previous technical knowledge of sketching or drafting. They want to make sure that you have the potential to learn. Than what are they looking at?

• They are looking at your color coordination, you don’t have to be a genius to know if two colors go together, just have to have a good taste.
• They are also looking for some since of perspective, I mean if you need to draw rails that are starting from the point closest to you and continuing to a dimension that does not exist on a piece of paper, they want to see that you have the logical since to make it wider in the bottom and skinnier in the top.

The two projects that stand out the most in my portfolio are the last two, which are cardboard furniture. Yes, you read it correctly, cardboard furniture. I know there must be a lot of questions regarding it, like; “Is it durable enough?” “How hard is it to make?” “can you actually sit on it?” “Does all of it made out of cardboard?” Well, if you want an answer to those questions and directions for your own cardboard furniture you’ll probably will read the next post