Shoot print work for your portfolio

Skills: Select your best work for your folio, create a backdrop and lighting set-up, make good use of RAW format, retouch and crop shots for use online

The days of lugging a large black folio case around to prospective clients and employers like some sort of door-to-door designer are, thankfully, now a fading memory. However, a benefit of this was that you could take out the pieces, flip them over, handle them and give the person you were showing a 'feel' of the quality of work you were capable of.

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The Creative Bloq team is made up of a group of design fans, and has changed and evolved since Creative Bloq began back in 2012. The current website team consists of eight full-time members of staff: Editor Georgia Coggan, Deputy Editor Rosie Hilder, Ecommerce Editor Beren Neale, Senior News Editor Daniel Piper, Editor, Digital Art and 3D Ian Dean, Tech Reviews Editor Erlingur Einarsson and Ecommerce Writer Beth Nicholls and Staff Writer Natalie Fear, as well as a roster of freelancers from around the world. The 3D World and ImagineFX magazine teams also pitch in, ensuring that content from 3D World and ImagineFX is represented on Creative Bloq. 

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