What is the best way to present work to clients?

[judson]

What's the most effective (not necessarily the most cost-effective) method to show work (renderings, animations) to clients? Prints are terribly low-tech...projectors can suffer with conditions in the room...carrying a tv to each presentation can be a pain. Any new ideas or products out that show off the work accurately and are portable enough to manage?

[Ernest Burden III]

Well that's easy -- an ipad. Work looks beautiful and you hand it to them, clients love 'em. Best presentation money I ever spent.

[Ernest Burden III]

You joined in 2005 and this is your third post?

[Dimitris Tolios]

I second on iPad or any 10in class tablet really. Relatively cheap, they cannot keep it etc etc. Prints are expensive and you have to explain each and every time why they cannot keep them.

　

 

Something like that also looks interesting: ASUS Transformer AiO P1801

 

It is 18" / 1080p, so far from the pixel density high end 10" devices use, but @ 18 is impressive and surely more catchy - ipads have been seen before, this one will take some time to become "old".

 

Can double as your web device @ home or an administration office computer when not in use.

 

Actually the "dock" is a low voltage i7 Quad with discreet graphics (pretty much an iMac), and the 18" "tablet" is an independent Android device when not docked, so you can be using the "dock" as a desktop PC with an external monitor without issues even for some light professional work.

[RyderSK]

Retina 15" macbook pro, looks beautiful, 2880px on 15" makes any pictures just look glorious :- ). The aluminium body is also glorious. Also in eyes of outsiders, it makes you look more "edgy" than "geeky", but still professional. Or any Ultrabook with similar res (there are already few 3k displays outside retina too)

 

(Disclaimer: I am not Apple fanboy, or even fan, but we do have some apple products just due to their chasis prettyness, yes looks mean everything to me, like macbook pro (with Windows8 ONLY installed), etc. and one simply has to agree there is nothing that compares in looks, just isn't )

 

The above mentioned Asus Tablet looks impressive, but only in it's tablet form (docked it is heinious geeky plastic bullshit) , and indeed looks like cool thing to to hand people.

 

 

PRINTS are not old-school !!! Prints done nicely, are over-the-top great, even for pure digital artwork. But you gotta do it right (and it's hell expensive, but what isn't ? )

 

 

I am big fan of bounded portfolios, we have one too (can be seen on my Behance), giant A3+ format photopaper prints in 300 DPI. Can't beat this.

 

Examples: http://www.irisportfolios.com/buckram-portfolios

Edited June 28, 2013 by RyderSK

[salvador]

Many offices (including your own) are most likely to have a LED tv screen where you can plug your device via HDMI to show the contents in wide format; I've seen some get out-of-res, color shifting and distorted when pluged via HDMI, but some look simply astonishing.

[notamondayfan]

I always use a printed portfolio, it may be old school, but if it's well presented I think it's 100 times better than dropping your images onto an iPad. I think there's something really nice about having prints of your work, and I think it shows you care enough about your work to spend the time to print it and display them nicely.

 

All I generally use is a plain hardback black album, which I can slot prints in and out of when I need to add or remove projects. Most my prints are 10x8s so printed for a few quid at a local photo printer. And as it's in a album, I always walk away with it.

 

I think it's great to have something to quickly look through in meetings, it's a good talking point, and you aren't alienating people who don't / can't necessarily use iPads or laptops.

 

Animations are of course different, and I'd use a iPad for these.

 

Dean

[RyderSK]

Many offices (including your own) are most likely to have a LED tv screen where you can plug your device via HDMI to show the contents in wide format; I've seen some get out-of-res, color shifting and distorted when pluged via HDMI, but some look simply astonishing.

 

Today at mall I kept staring at 4k 80" Samsung TV. That was beyond amazing, I literally kept watching for 15 minutes straight. Those details..

 

it shows you care enough about your work

 

Exactly this. There's a lot to work outside of the image itself :- )

 

 

I mostly keep my portfolio to self-amusement though or give prints as gifts. I've never met any of my clients in live, and it's bit interesting to me so many consider it necessary (unless really huge budget that would warrant flying to some metropol) to meet before or during job. But I can image it probably does help a lot with trust.