Design is only as powerful as your ability to communicate it, and in today s competitive landscape your portfolio becomes your voice. This intensive summer course focuses on building a compelling, high impact portfolio for internships, jobs, and graduate study through a blend of digital, manual, and AI driven methods. You will develop advanced mixed method visualizations that clarify ideas, strengthen hierarchy, and transform projects into cohesive, memorable narratives. The course incorporates current AI tools to support representation, iteration, and storytelling while emphasizing authorship and intent. Students refine existing work and produce a visually striking, strategically organized portfolio, with an optional AI assisted website component for a polished professional online presence.