Here are some thoughts about custom pocket construction from alumni Desi and Sean. There is also an article you have to read at the end about Mary Scott's program at Academy of Art. Mary is the inspiration behind our original book portfolios and many years ago she visited us at SDCC. That year we worked in class to explore the format and introduced it for the first time at the AIGA San Diego Portfolio Review.
In 2010 students asked about custom pocket construction and we tapped into the minds of Desi and Sean for advice.
From: Desi McKinnon
I made mine custom. If I remember right Sean did too. I had saved a photograph of a pocket I liked and I duplicated it. I would look at folding books. This site might help too. www.neenahpaper.com/folders/ It has downloadable diecuts for folders. If they know what they want to construct I could help them figure it out, but it's always trial and error when you do something custom.
From: Sean Bacon
Yeah I made my pockets custom too. They were pretty simple and based on my grid, but I remember the trial and error as well.
I was originally looking at cool pockets and they were scattered all over, but I remember looking at books, annual reports, brochures, paper samples and places like that. It is kinda like the page-folios where there isn't one go to source for it. Some of the coolest pockets I saw were in paper samples or in that article from STEP about the academy of art's GD program.
From: Candice
I am posting the link here for portfolio students to check out
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEP/Article/28805/index.html
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