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If you want to apply for a scholarship or enroll in a well-known international design institution, you'll be required to have a good portfolio. Portfolio reflects your experience, creativity, and your process to design. And if you to impress employers at job interview, a good portfolio can set you apart from the others.

The e-book Tips for a good design portfolio is developed by lecturers of London College for Design and Fashion - Hanoi

Many students who want to study design don’t know how to arrange and present their works as a portfolio. This is not too hard to understand because art and design are not taught in many high schools in Vietnam as well as Asia. It is therefore difficult for students who receive entry requirements from art and design colleges and univeristies and have to persue their study outside for meeting requirements for application to art and design schools.

The e-book Tips for a good design portfolio edited by London College for Design and Fashion – Hanoi provides the most basic knowledge to high school students such as: What is a portfolio? Why is it important? What makes your portfolio unique? What should you do when there are too many works you want to include? How to start creating a portfolio? More importantly, the e-book also focuses on the three "most important aspects" that recruiters will look for in any portfolio.

The e-book offers important information to students

Having advised thousand of students to successfully got admitted to art and design schools in Europe and America, the author of the e-book also offers detailed tips such as: "Don't include content that is not related to Portfolio such as … certificate of an international math competition", "avoid using low-quality images,” or many other questions which will prepare your interview for admission.

Let's put the strongest works at the top and the end of the Portfolio to impress people when they see your works from the beginning.

Showing the final outcome of a project in a portfolio is not enough. Many design colleges or universities want to see design process that will reveal a candidate’s true potential.

With 16 years of educational experience in Vietnam, LCDF - Hanoi has been supporting hundreds of students to be successful in their portfolio application to many art and design schools in Europe and America, such as Central Saint Martins, London College of Fashion , University of the West of England, Middlesex University, Liverpool John Moore University, The University of Gloucestershire, Northumbria University, University of Salford, Art University Bournemouth, Herdfordshire University, Savannah College of Art & Design (USA), Columbus College of Art and Design (USA), to name a few.

This e-book is free-of-charge and encourage students to take their first steps in creating a good portfolio for application to top art and design schools in the world.

Below is the link for free download: https://forms.gle/qPKpNoyNF7xnqGfY6