An intensive 5-hour portfolio development workshop for emerging designers.

Your projects. Your creative identity. Your next professional opportunity.

Are you a recent design graduate looking to approach landscape architecture, garden design or architecture studios, but unsure how to present your work professionally? Perhaps you have university projects, drawings and visualisations but struggle to bring them together into a coherent portfolio, or you’re not sure what potential employers want to see.

From Graduate to Designer: Building Your Digital Portfolio is an intensive, hands-on workshop designed to help you transform your academic and personal projects into a professional portfolio that communicates your skills, creativity and design approach.

Led by a professional landscape architect and design educator, this workshop will guide you through the process of developing a portfolio, from selecting your strongest projects and organising your content to establishing a clear visual identity and creating engaging project presentations.
Together, we’ll explore what makes a successful graduate portfolio, examine examples from professional design practices and discuss how to communicate your design thinking through drawings, photographs, diagrams, sketches and visualisations. You’ll receive individual guidance on selecting and structuring your projects, developing layouts and creating a consistent graphic language.
The workshop includes dedicated studio time where you’ll work directly on your own portfolio, using your existing project material to develop your first pages. Rather than focusing on software training, we’ll concentrate on the content, composition and visual communication that make a portfolio stand out.
Special guest session: An invited professional from an established design practice will join us for an industry perspective and portfolio review. You’ll gain first-hand insights into what studios look for when recruiting graduates, receive constructive feedback and have the opportunity to ask questions about approaching practices and entering the professional world.

The workshop is intentionally limited to a small group of four participants to allow for individual attention, discussion and meaningful feedback throughout the session.

You don’t need previous experience in portfolio design. However, you should arrive with your draft portfolio of images and material from 3–5 of your existing projects, including drawings, photographs, plans, sketches or visualisations. Bring your laptop, your ideas and a willingness to experiment.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll have identified and structured your strongest projects, established a visual direction for your portfolio and developed your first 2–3 portfolio pages. You’ll also leave with practical advice on approaching design studios and presenting yourself as an emerging professional.