The SS X PALETTE Subject Specific Portfolio Template is a stunning 22-page, fully customizable layout design template, meticulously crafted for both CANVA and Adobe InDesign. What is it? A Subject-Specific Portfolio is a targeted collection of work that revolves around a particular subject, theme, or niche. It emphasizes projects and pieces that are directly related to and focused on a specific topic or area of interest. This type of portfolio is created with the intention of showcasing your in-depth expertise, knowledge, and dedication to a particular subject. It is designed to resonate with a specific audience that shares an interest in that subject. When to Use a Subject-Specific Portfolio? Job Interviews: When applying for a job or position that requires specialized knowledge or skills in a particular subject, a subject-specific portfolio can highlight your expertise and make you stand out as a subject matter expert. Client Pitches: When pitching your services to potential clients, especially in fields like marketing, advertising, or design, tailoring your portfolio to showcase work relevant to their industry or needs can be highly persuasive. Brand Collaborations: If you're seeking partnerships or collaborations with specific brands, a subject-specific portfolio can showcase your ability to complement and enhance their brand identity. Marketing and Promotion: For marketing or promotional purposes, creating portfolios tailored to different niches or industries can help attract a more targeted audience. Rebranding or Redesign Projects: When you're involved in rebranding or redesigning a brand's visual identity, a subject-specific portfolio can illustrate your successful past work in similar endeavors. Why Choose this Portfolio Template? Ready-Made Layouts: Say goodbye to the daunting task of starting from scratch. Our template set includes 22 pages of pre-created, fully customizable layouts, so you can focus on showcasing your work. Multi-Platform Compatibility: We understand that every creative has their preferred design tool. That's why our templates are editable in both Canva and Adobe InDesign, giving you the flexibility to choose the platform that suits you best. Tailor to Your Brand: Your portfolio is a reflection of your unique style. With our templates, you have the freedom to add your own photos, text, and customize the design to align perfectly with your brand identity. Part of the SS x Palette Collection   What can I customize? The SS x Palette Portfolio Template empowers you to move, edit, or change all elements within the layouts. You have full control over the color palette, enabling you to match it precisely to your brand's aesthetic. Just like all Studio Standard templates, it's designed for maximum flexibility, with character, paragraph, and object styles for effortless font-style customizations. .   Size Matters The templates are optimized for online display at a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, ensuring your portfolio looks stunning on any digital screen.   Photographs Not Included Please note that the photographs and mockups featured in the template are for illustrative purposes only. Your template will include basic placeholders where you can easily insert your own visuals. .   Details Total of 22 Slides: Offering a comprehensive range of layouts to tell your creative story. Part of the Studio Standard x Palette Collaboration: A product of two creative powerhouses. Real Text: Ensuring your content flows seamlessly. Two Cover Color Options: Choose the one that best suits your style. Wide Compatibility: Works with Canva and Adobe InDesign versions CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, and CC. IDML File Included: Seamless compatibility for Adobe InDesign users. Styles Galore: Utilize paragraph, character, and object styles for font customization. Customizable Colors: Edit brand colors effortlessly through the palette. Grid Alignment: Aligned to a column and baseline grid for precise design. Master Pages: Streamline your design process. Layered Design: Separate layers for images, text, and backgrounds for easy adjustments. Free Fonts: No need to worry about additional expenses. Help File: We've got you covered with comprehensive guidance.

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Keeping children’s artwork in good condition can sometimes be a challenge. Even if you are ruthless about only keeping the best, there is a tendency for it to get creased and dog-eared. It makes sense to keep it flat, and a traditional portfolio is the ideal way to do this. Yet the choice of portfolios available for children is limited. I couldn’t find one that I liked and most were very small, so I thought I would have a go at making my own instead. This proved to be pretty easy and quite cheap to do, with the added benefit of offering the opportunity to decorate and personalise the cover however I wanted. For the cardboard covers, I re-used the backs from a couple of old sketch books, while for the decorative paper, you may recognise some of the Graffiti Giftwrap we made at Christmas. The full list of materials needed is given below: 2 sheets of thick card for the portfolio covers Decorative paper for the outside of the portfolio Plain or decorative paper for the inside of the portfolio Wide heavy duty adhesive tape for the binding and corners. Strip of thin card Glue (I used permanent spray glue and PVA medium) Knife/scissors Ruler Approx 2m of ribbon or tape for the ties 1. Cut all paper to size. The paper for the outside of the portfolio should be larger on the 2 sides and the top by about 1cm. The paper for the inside should be about 0.5cms smaller than the card on those same 3 sides. Cut the ribbon into 6 even lengths. 2. Cut a strip of thin card the length of the spine of the portfolio, and approx 2cms wide, which will act as a stiffening for the spine. 3. Glue the decorative paper to one side of the thick card, allowing an overlap of about 1cm on 3 sides, and trying to avoid trapping air bubbles by smoothing them out as you lay the paper down. Snip the corners of the overlap off, apply further glue if necessary and fold the edges over onto the inside. Make sure you smooth them down firmly. 4. Cut a strip of the binding tape about 2cms longer than the length of the spine and place the strip of thin card in the centre. Attach the covers to the spine by placing each unfinished edge of the cover, outside face down, onto each edge of the tape so that they butt up against the edges of the card. 5. Fold over the overlapping top and bottom of the tape to the inside of the portfolio. 6. Cut 3 slots on each board of the portfolio at the centre of the top and the 2 side edges. Thread a piece of the tape or ribbon through each of the slots, and glue one end to the inside of the cover to secure (I actually did this in the wrong order after I had put the lining paper in place, which didn’t work as well!) 7. Cut another length of the binding tape the actual length of the spine, and stick in place on the inside to cover and protect the inside binding, and cover all raw edges. 8. Glue your prepared paper for the inside, to the inner covers of the portfolio, making sure that you cover the glued ends of the ribbon ties, the edges of the cover paper and the edges of the binding tape. 9. If you want to reinforce the top corners for extra durability, cut a square of the binding tape, and cut in half diagonally. Place one triangle over an outside corner, allowing a small overlap. Snip the corner, and fold over the edges to the inside, pinching the corner to create a neat finish as you do so. Place the other triangle on the inside of the cover at the same corner to cover the overlapping edges (you may find it necessary to trim the depth slightly so that the inside and outside corners match up). Your portfolio is now finished. You can of course use any decorative paper you like for your portfolio – even wrapping paper if you prefer. Alternatively you could use a plain paper, and then allow children to decorate the exterior themselves, using collage, stickers, printing etc. At least that way no-one else will have a portfolio quite like it!

Six original lithographs with hand colouring in oil pastel, from the tiny edition of 20 – these being number 1/20 – AND Matta only hand coloured the first two sets in the edition, making these incredibly rare! The other set which was hand coloured is in the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Each piece is signed twice, once in pencil and again in the coloured crayon. The six images make up the Minded Mind suite, printed by Kinji Akagawa and published by the Minneapolis School of Art in 1966.  The entire edition was donated by Matta, with the proceeds of sales to be used to benefit the Minneapolis School of Art. Matta went to the school from Paris for an eleven day period of demonstrations, critiques, and discussions.  Sold in it’s original black portfolio case with justification page. Roberto Matta was a leading Surrealist painter, draftsman, and printmaker, whose work taps into the creative unconscious through the use of chance and automatic drawing techniques. Matta developed a visionary visual language of vaguely figurative biomorphic forms inhabiting an eerie dream-like world of violent conflict and deep anxiety. He described his own work as “the subconscious in its burning, liquid state; a conscious daytime substitution of the phenomenon of dreams.” Paper size: 76 x 55.5 cm each.

Haiku poems are fun with this Haiku Poetry Writing Set. Everything you need to have students create beautiful poems is included! This Haiku Poem set is part of my best-selling Poetry Writing Bundle that includes 14 different styles of poems! You can see more here by clicking here: POETRY UNIT BUNDLE! Included in this file: Haiku Poem Anchor Charts Haiku Poem Introduction Page (with an original sample) Haiku Poem Planning Page Haiku Poem Final Copy Paper CLICK HERE TO SEE THE BEST POETRY WRITING UNIT for 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students! ***Just a friendly reminder that this product is for A SINGLE USER ONLY. That means that copying or sharing any part of this product with another teacher, grade level, school, department, district, etc…is strictly prohibited. Inspired Elementary® products may not be used for commercial use, including platforms such as Outschool. You have the option to purchase multiple licenses (at a discount) for each additional person/classroom with whom you wish to share this product. © All rights reserved. Erin Lane. www.Inspired Elementary.com

I LOVE it when things are organized and colorful! Student portfolios and assessments can create PILES of paperwork and student work sample pages. Managing all the papers can be so stressful!

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Adam Pritchett is an embroidery artist based in Lake District, England, a countryside famous for its forests, lakes, and mountains. From these bucolic surroundi