Portfolio Critique
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- Akiraprise
Hey, was wandering if you kind people could have a look at my portfolio, I've just re-done it for work and would like some comments please.
Some of the work is missing / low-resolution, these are the bits that I need to do at work, but in terms of the general feel of the portfolio and the work I've done - is it good?
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- ok_not_ok0
remove the OSX window thingy and easy on the easing. Looks good tho.
just my 2 pence.
- iceberg0
up the ante on the body of your work and then build a nice site around it. site is curreently fine but the work is not up to par imo
- Mishga0
Have you ripped this site???
http://www.pulseight.co.uk/- Eh? It's his site and there're' plenty of people doing horizontal scroling JQ sites these days (myself included)!detritus
- 1440 by 900hellojeehae
- He made the branding for them. Perhaps the site as well.********
- No, I designed that one as wellAkiraprise
- I think maybe someone ripped him. I SWEAR I've seen that in another portfoliomonospaced
- sorry....:DMishga
- monospaced0
Your portfolio should be divided into Specsavers (90% of your work) and Other (10%). I also agree with the rest of what people said.
- hellojeehae0
i think Site information stuff should move up It is creating too much space. So the actual work is too low on the site that I have to scroll down
- really? What res are you using, 1024x768?d_rek
- 640x480 maybemonospaced
- 1444 by 900hellojeehae
- showpony0
i agree with iceberg... the shell is working, and your logo is interesting, but i'd consider removing some of those pieces (the disco poster and some of those logos in particular) until you get something a little bit stronger. also, maybe you can focus on some of your more successful pieces, like the time tunnel work (maybe have larger images of that?) or the rally car until you can round things out a bit more? good start though.
- d_rek0
I have to agree with Iceberg on this one. I think you have a really nice CONTAINER for your work... now you just need either the work to back it up or better presentation of said work.
The way you're presenting us work is rather lackluster... it could be composition, cropping, etc... i'm not sure but if feels off.
Also, some of the work captures are really grainy, dithered images. Such as the 25th Anniversary Ball and the Specssavers brands.
- detritus0
- Loving that nippy JQuery.
- Don't like being dropped onto a site with no startup content.
- Not madkeen on the rollover for entire category - that's a bit misleading.
- I take it your branding section's one of those in need of finishing? If not - it does. I'd drop the 'family and friends' line. No one else need know that.
- the 'internal secondary' navigation is a bit weak/redundant - kind of breaks your categorisation, eh? Personally, I'd try and find a neater way of segregating your work.
- Goddamn, your JQ is nippy!
- utopian0
you guys are a rough bunch...
- Kiggen0
design is ok, but with the branding change the BG to white,
because this looks really messy
http://meak.in/indexf.html#15
- duckseason0
I would say this would be what I would address first:
- Overall, I think it's pretty good, but could be great with a bit of polish.duckseason
- Like detritus said, the rollover on the entire category threw me off at first - thought the whole thing was one link/button at firstduckseason
- Akiraprise0
Hey guys thanks for all the feedback!
All of the Specsavers work and branding work aren't properly laid out yet, and with low-res images, Pages like 'pulseight stationary', 'MLR calendars' & the web parts are the best laid-out so far, Ideally I'd like to take some proper product shots though.
Cheers guys!
- Akiraprise0
Hey I've just updated the work and branding section, as well as how the site navigates following on from your comments, I've still got a bit of work to do on it - but am I on the right track?
- SoulFly0
It's not too bad.
Can you do something about the background color?
Honestly, some of your work pieces are immature if you will, i.e. Gift voucher POS, some of the logos. You should leave them out and display only your best work, for now.
Good luck.- sorry, I just realized I repeated what others said. Bad habit of writing first, then reading posts.SoulFly
- Yea, I guess they are, but I'm only 20 so have a long way to go to being mature :PAkiraprise
- ********0
"Seminar Time Tunnel
4 pods, 6 meter long, 2.5 meter high. I had to come up with a look for the inside of the time tunnel to include a history of Specsavers, I came up with this design, and carried it through from start to finish. The result was brilliant."The last sentence makes me want to punch you :)
- haha yea I do sound like a twat with that sentence :PAkiraprise
- villars0
Yeah, like others have said, the background colour's...too much?
White would probably be best, in my opinion. You should also maybe considering photographing your prints? For texture.
It's all so very flat.+ your branding presentation needs cleaning up; hierarchy of the logos + laying them out all on one "area" would look cleaner.
The nav + layout's nice though. Very simple + direct.
- + that gift vouchers thing should really be taken down, not to be mean or anything.villars
- _niko0
go white
- ********0
i'd rip it.
- detritus0
Really tiny thing - you could go in to "jquery.easing.1.3.js" and chop out a lot of the functions you don't need. Also, one of the copies of the copyright notice - no need for such a minor detail to take up an 8k.
(Personally, I just cut out the functions I need from there and add them to a global js file)
- cramdesign0
some really nice work. the site is fine. I even like the color.