From InDesign to Portfolio
Coherent layouts take time and energy.
Speed up this process with the templates below. I have worked with many students who achieved amazing results following strategies from these. I have been using some of these templates myself for the past 10 years, testing and refining it to tell good stories. The designs are meant to adapt easily to suit an evolving catalog of work as you progress from the academic world to the professional world, small projects or large. They are also easily translatable in both physical and digital presentation formats. Paragraph and character styles with carefully chosen fonts are programmed to help simplify the process. Save yourself time to focus on building content, and let me know if you need any help with using these templates. InDesign help is FREE on purchase.
Portrait 1
This is a template for a primarily linear dominated body of work. If you specialize in towers, very linear projects like train stations or airports, or projects with small footprints, this would be a good template for displaying your work. The white space is designed to accentuate the linear quality of the images, and brings a slender quality to the content. A square font is also picked to juxtapose the vertical image crops. If you have sleek, elegant lines to showcase, this is the layout for you.
Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait
Font: Montserrat
Portrait 2
This template is designed for a mix of more extreme vertical and horizontal projects. Hero shots are designed to bleed off the page to accentuate the directionality of the designs. There is a clear hierarchy between the main image of focus vs the more supportive explanatory images. The darker accents in this template create a bolder character, and helps to unify projects of different color schemes or styles together.
Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait
Font: Futura PT
Landscape 2
This template is designed to be bold in nature, playing more with dark tonal contrasts to bring out the image. These dark areas on the page provides spaces for technical information as well as the potential for white line diagrams or drawings. These darker areas also provide for more spatial breaks on a landscape spread, which is particularly helpful to unify projects that have very different color schemes.
Size: 8.5” x 11” Landscape
Font: Roboto / Lato
Landscape 1
Landscape templates, by nature, are more geared towards horizontal or linear projects. This template is designed to accentuate this. The page is bisected clearly into image focus zones vs support spaces for technical information like areas and labels. The lines add more directionality and gives the layout a certain crispness. This layout is particularly good for those who like to showcase clean linework, or have drawing-heavy portfolios.
Size: 8.5” x 11” Landscape
Font: Roboto / Lato
InDesign Course
To efficiently use the template, a firm grasp of InDesign and good visual composition skills is essential. If you need help with unlocking the full potential of InDesign and master the art of creating captivating architectural portfolios, schedule a meeting for a FREE 30min step-by-step course. Learn how to craft an exceptional portfolio with the template and InDesign's powerful tools, to allow your drawings and renderings to express your thoughts and concepts with clarity and impact.
Portfolio 0
This template provides the most flexible layout, and is the template I use for my own portfolios. It works for both vertical projects (towers) as well as horizontal projects (low-rise). If your work ranges vastly in scale and type, I would strongly recommend this template. There is a nice balance of full bleed hero shot renderings and detailed slides to showcase thoughtful technical drafting. This is a very clean format suitable for any design.
Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait
Font: National / Theinhardt
