Creativity Tutorial: Great Ways to Present Your Project

Discover the tips you need to create an incredible presentation and showcase your project, with Cherry Bomb

Showing potential clients your creative design book involves much more than just producing your work (in Illustrator or Photoshop), then adding it to a folder. You need to give your audience a real experience so visual, it’s practically tactile.

Mockups, 3D models and photographic compositions uniting your creations are just some of the resources available to you. Gabriel Tinoco, one of the minds behind the Cherry Bomb Creative Co. design studio outlines his approach.

Find out more in the video:

3 Great ideas project presentation ideas

1. Create a mock-up

There’s a fundamental difference between asking your client to look at a jpeg and presenting a mockup, (which is a kind of 3D simulation, be it of a card, a box or some packaging). Some websites offer free mockups for you to download, all you then have to do is insert your design. Check out Graphic Pear or Graphic Burger to see how it works.

2. Generate model templates

If you’re no 3D model master (who is?) Adobe Dimension let’s you download model templates that are easy to personalize with your designs.

3. Photographic compositions

Go beyond a mockup or one-off 3D model and give your design proposal an extra dimension with photographic compositions in which your client can see your designs in a “real world” setting. Naturally, these compositions can be virtual. “It’s like giving your portfolio a little extra love,” says Gabriel. Work on the results in post-production and improve every detail to make sure your composition looks perfect.

Like these tips? Remember Cherry Bomb explore different recipes to improve your creative processes so you can cook up great ideas, in their online course: Creativity for Design Projects.

You may also be interested in:

- Techniques for Developing Your Creativity, a course by Silvia Fernández Palomar.
- Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life, a course by Shaun Levin.
- Drawing and Creativity for Big Little Artists, a course by Puño.
- Creativity Tutorial: How to Make a Brief Step by Step.
- Creativity Tutorial: What is a Mood Board and How to Create One.