This is an on-going brainstorm of portfolio project ideas geared specifically towards editorial prop-type work.
- Design a new title page for a boring magazine article
- Design two interesting settings in which to photograph jewelry
- Design a window display
- Design a trade show booth
- Design five DIY holiday gifts, and five DIY holiday decorations
- Design a political package for an issue or candidate, including poster, bumper sticker and button (or other schwag)
- Design a piece of wearable clothing not made from fabric
- Create three unsettling plush objects
- Create a pop-up card or book spread
- Design something to indicate the passage of time that is not a clock, calendar or hourglass.
- Shoot a handcrafted animation
- Create a kit to help solve a common problem
- Create a diorama
- Create a shadow box
- Create a papercut
- Design something to help organize your workspace
- Make a gross or boring job or product look sexy
- Create a trompe l’oeil
- Create a map of an imaginary place
- Make a pocket square that looks like something other than a handkerchief
- Make a memory game
- Take photos and then alter them in a barely noticable way
- Create a shrine to an obsolete technology
- Create a board game to illustrate a process
- Make a family tree
- Diagram something emotional
- Create an introduction/thank you piece a la Jeffery Rudell
- Make a weird cross-stitch/needlepoint sampler
- Design a poster for a quotation using at least five different fonts
- Design 5 simple-to-make but elegant DIY wedding items
- Make an advent calendar
- Make something useful out of 100% garbage
- Design the childhood bedroom of a fictional character
- Re-create an often overlooked household object that is ten times larger or smaller than usual
- Make your logo (TBD) in various materials and at various scales. Post to the web on a rotating basis.
- Create the smallest, most detailed modeled you can of the largest thing you can think of.
- Draw a design for a mini-golf course that incorporates huge models of normally tiny things.
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