Journal on Portfolio Project-1 (class 1)
What is Portfolio? Portfolio is collection of our works which a designer makes as a proof of what skills he/she have, knowledge etc. Designers are always being asked to show their portfolio to get a job or some field related work. Maintaining a portfolio is must for a designer and also adding new work they have finished , updating portfolio is also necessary. It’s like portfolio speaks for designer.
Writing, documentation of work, journals are also important for designer as much as his portfolio. Documentation and journaling daily works as a best friend to designer even more than it. It speaks on behalf of designer. It is said that, ‘Writing daily also improves the ideating skills’. The blogs we write are 24/7 present online and can be read and reviewed at any time. For aspiring designer he might not have a ready portfolio but he/she can share their blog link to interviewer which also showcases designer's documentation skills. Portfolio looks incomplete without documentation it nearly shows our thought process behind the work we have done so far.
“If someone is at better company doing better job is because their documentation skill is better than other people.”
There is difference between a designer who pursues degree and person who don’t. The designer who has pursued degree has made his critical thinking nearly so good that when ask about solution to the problem he/she knows which ideas to eliminate and which idea will suit best for the particular problem. While the designer without degree is more likely to work on the initial or the very first idea comes to their mind , which makes a big difference between these 2 designers.
Skin is the biggest sensory organ of human body. Ear, nose , tongue and eye are the other sensory organs of human body. Now imagine how difficult it would be for a chef if he loses his ability to Smell and Taste. Their is this Netflix series called Chef’s Table. It’s first episode is about an American chef named Grant Achatz and his wild creativity and new innovations on how food is seen dressed and served and breaking the stereotypes to serve only on plates.
Grant has worked for some restaurant and someday the identity crises hits him and decides to start his own restaurant. For few days he can’t taste his food and later he finds out that he has final stage cancer. Overthinking about his current condition he comes up with so many thoughts that what will his kids do after he dies, how can he continue his chef’s profession when he can’t taste and smell. But he than decides that being chef has no relation to his tongue but he must be chef from his mind , he fights and win over his oral cancer.
After 10 years Grant and his partner decides to renovate their restaurant Alinea. They redesign the whole customer experience from entering into the restaurant, getting god served and how they feel. They creates the edible sugar balloon which a customer can swallow, Grant decides to keep this dish forever on the menu of Alinea. From experimenting to make strawberries which tastes like tomatoes to tomatoes which are actually strawberries these are some of their Unique Selling Point. Grant imagines why can’t we eat on paintings , canvas etc. why we all are only limited to plates. Alinea serves the food directly on the table cloth which makes it looks like someone has painted food on canvas.
Country’s best critique has awarded Alinea the country’s best restaurant in year in 2006. It was among world’s best 50 restaurant in 2017.