As I proceeded to pull together my plan to execute the plan, I realized that although I had identified an audience and purpose for my portfolio, it wasn’t truly my audience and my purpose. I spent a couple of weeks reviewing my work, re-reading assignments going back to the fall of 2012 and Rhetorical Theory. I revised my a list of artifacts and began to work out how each demonstrated my claim to be a visual communicator and a problem solver. I knew I wanted to tie the work to the claim that I was the expert, but I felt that I wan’t the one leading the charge, that I was putting the process and product ahead of the idea.
A physical portfolio wasn’t going to work. Not for me. Not for my audience. Not for my work.
Form follows function, and the function of this portfolio required me to re-assess and choose a medium appropriate for my message. I would build a website.