Communicate Your Work

Every designer needs a quality portfolio, and InDesign is the perfect tool for making portfolios. Enroll in the InDesign Guide To Portfolios For Architects to start improving your portfolio skills today.

This Portfolio Guide is a training guide to valuable skills and professional workflows in InDesign for creating portfolios. In this course, you will learn how to organize, plan and develop a portfolio from scratch that shares your best work in a beautiful way.

Finally, we create two comprehensive pages for projects, with renderings, photographs and drawings neatly placed together.

This class is for Architects and designers with basic experience in Adobe programs.

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • InDesign Concepts

    • Example Portfolio

    • Folder Structure
  2. 2

    • Portfolio Design Exercise
  3. 3

    • Starting The InDesign File

    • The InDesign Interface

    • Setting Up The Portfolio and Cover

    • Setting Up Page Templates

    • Setting Up The Resume Summary Page

    • Adding Page Numbers

    • Importing Images
  4. 4

    • 3.01 Setting Up Case Study Page

    • 3.02 Linking And Populating Paragraphs With Gridify

    • 3.03 Importing With Gridify
  5. 5

    • 4.01 Setting Up A Project Page

    • 4.02 Project Page 2

    • 4.03 Adding Diagrams

    • 4.04 Adding Labels

    • 4.05 Refining Layout_1
  6. 6

    • 5.01 Reviewing and Exporting Final Portfolio

    • 5.02 Final PDF

    • 5.03 Packaging The InDesign File
  7. 7

    • Conclusion

Instructor(s)

Brandon Aaron Gibbs

Architect & Innovator

4.5+ Instructor Rating | 245+reviews | 10,000+ students

Brandon Gibbs is an award winning licensed Architect, Creative Director of MotionFORM and Architect in Residence at I Am The Studio. Brandon received a Masters in Architecture from the Architectural Association, studying under Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid, where he began his thesis and research into parametric Architecture. Brandon has design several pavilions, universities, churches, modern homes in addition to several award winning film and animation projects. He regularly speaks and mentor young Architects and designers in organizations like AIA (American Institute of Architects) NOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects) and AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists). I have spoken at several design conferences, media events, network groups and have gone from consulting a diversity of clients to professing the secrets of design, branding to listeners at all levels. Designers of all shapes and sizes have learned and succeeded from my programs, and I’ll help you win, too if you give me a try.