"Featuring a curated collection of approximately 300 exquisite designs, along with essays from designers in the field about the essence and importance of a good portfolio design, Design: Portfolio contains mini-workshops that dissect several featured projects and highlight the effectiveness of exceptional design treatments from around the world. Designers will discover the underlying details that make each design so special. This is an exciting new addition to the informative and inspiring Design series by Rockport Publishers that offers the best of design in practice"--

Today's graphic designers, illustrators, and typographers are rediscovering old printing techniques and handcrafts. The work collected in this book shows the many facets of the graphic design business, from business cards to posters.

This book provides the designer with grids, hanglines, margins, borders, rule measurements, and type specs-everything needed to recreate the featured layouts. It covers features over 40 projects specially tailored to cover the design of all types of printed matter from newsletters to advertisements. It also includes professional application spreads, showing dynamic layouts by top graphic designers.