A sidebar from my upcoming book on portfolios for visual designers. This is from the section where I talk about the four main colors you can present your work on: Black, White, Grey, and Ivory.
Color backgrounds
A color background—or even a palette of colored backgrounds—could work in certain situations and for certain visual designers. This is both really hard to make successful and hard to maintain though, so it is not listed as one of the choices. Like all things in the visual arts, rules are made to be broken, but things tend to be rules because they are really hard to break well.
