The Ultimate Portfolio Builder Graduate Showcase

We are so excited to bring you a showcase of amazing work from our very talented students from The Ultimate Portfolio Builder who took the live version of this course back in February 2024. Here are some of our talented students and the work they have created in class.

Christine Giarrusso (Nelly and Isobel) I Website I Instagram

“For me, the most powerful element of the Ultimate Portfolio Builder came in the final week with an awareness of clarity and confidence. The magic was in how each lesson presented a new element, a new way to think or create, new opportunities; all of this culminating to give me focus. Thanks to the UPB I now have the knowledge, skills and self-belief to create a professional Surface Pattern Portfolio”.

Emma Hopkinson (Emma & Paint) I Website I Instagram

“The Ultimate Portfolio Builder was an explosion of creativity. My brain was buzzing with all the possibilities for patterns and I have created a huge number of new designs as a result of the course”.

Jacqueline Gutierrez I Instagram I Website

“The Ultimate Portfolio Builder definitely helped give the confidence to be able to send out my portfolio to companies. The Creative Mentorship assignment gave me greater insight about how to research comp products and how to research companies to submit my work to. I’m finishing up the collection that I started in class for that assignment, and will be submitting it to an actual company soon. I also found the live briefs to be both enjoyable and challenging. They really helped me organize my thoughts and develop many lovely designs to enhance my portfolio”.

Lauren Hawes (Lauren Sophie Designs) I Instagram I Facebook

“The most powerful element of the course has been the portfolio reviews. Not only was the advice for my own portfolio really helpful and thorough, it was fascinating seeing reviews for other students portfolios and being able to take their advice on board as well as my own. All the content is fantastic and there is always help and support from both the MIID team and the facebook group”.

Lindsay Elissa Coils (Slinkeee Illustration) I Website

“The prompt cards supplied in the course are a great way to force you out of a creative rut when you’re not sue what to draw. Connecting them to tell a story is a great idea and will give my designs much more depth.

I loved the variety of the live briefs and challenged myself to try different approaches to fit each brief as best as I could while also learning new things along the way. I know I’ll use these techniques again in future work and I look forward to continuing to build my portfolio following the creative briefs throughout the course”.

Lisette Niemand I Instagram I Website

“The Ultimate Portfolio Builder Course for 2024 pushed me to think outside the box, develop research and presentation skills, work under pressure and just grow as a designer in so many different areas. I really pushed myself to get all the briefs thoroughly researched and made so many different types of patterns for a variety of products I hadn’t previously considered for my portfolio. It was brilliant, just what I needed to refresh, rethink and move forward in my designing career”.

Meg Harris I Website I Facebook I Instagram

“Thank you so much for leading a wonderful course. I have really enjoyed allowing myself time to ‘play’ and experiment. I think as adults we don’t feel this is a good use of our time but without it we don’t grow and evolve as designers. This course has allowed me to do that and I’m so grateful”.

Simone Carr I Instagram I Website

“The Genre and Style module was transformative for me. I had been struggling internally, feeling that my designs didn’t fit in or that I was doing something wrong. This module revealed the vast array of genres and styles, giving me the confidence to let my own style shine for the first time, instead of trying to mold it to what I thought people wanted to see. This was life changing”.