Tips for setting up
your work for showcase and feedback

These slides should give you visual impressions on how to set up your work for showcases and feedback sessions.

Your setup is the first impression of your body of work, that is why it needs to be neat, polish and spotless.

 

Setting up your work

Displaying

Table setups

Table setups

Table setups

Table setups

Table setups

Table setups

Table setups

Documenting

Documenting

Product shots, clean background so that the focus is solely on the subject. Use a good camera, tripod if necessary, and appropriate lighting.

Documenting

Product shots, clean background so that the focus is solely on the subject. Use a good camera, tripod if necessary, and appropriate lighting.

Documenting

Product shots, clean background so that the focus is solely on the subject, add hands to show interactivity. Use a good camera, tripod if necessary, and appropriate lighting.

Documenting

In action, in use: pictures of the work with people interacting or looking at the work. These photos can be staged and choreographed, or taken during a show and tell or exhibition with audience. Use a good camera, a tripod if necessary and adequate lighting.

Documenting

Avoid

In action, in use: pictures of the work with people interacting or looking at the work. These photos can be staged and choreographed, or taken during a show and tell or exhibition with audience. Use a good camera, a tripod if necessary and adequate lighting.

Video

Explainer Videos: Focused on presenting how a design works or solves a problem.

Examples

Video

Design Process Videos: Highlighting the evolution and thinking behind a design project.

Examples

Video

Speculative Design Narratives tied to future-oriented, critical design approaches.

Examples

Video

show-and-tell-display

By Andreas Schlegel

show-and-tell-display

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