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A portfolio is more than a collection of individual works. It’s all of those entries working together to create a whole. We’ll discuss in this video the importance of a holistic view.
New Terms:
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Curation -- to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation
- Gestalt -- an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts
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Perhaps you've heard someone say that
something was more than the sum of its
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parts before.
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The concept came from
Germany in the 1920s, and
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the word they created to
represent this idea was gestalt.
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More formally, the term came to mean
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an organized whole that is perceived
as more than the sum of its parts.
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Gestalt can be applied across
a number of disciplines.
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However, we're looking through the lens of
selecting work for your design portfolio.
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As such, we need to consider
the impact of the selected works,
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