Tons of new work
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- Thesocialgospel
Hi everyone! I update my portfolio site with tons of new work, including new Gigposters, illustrations, and my Senior project. Also, I just graduated...check it out!
http://danielzender.com/
- Thesocialgospel0
*updated
- d_rek0
Congratulations!
I see a fruitful career path laid out ahead of you! :)
If i had one criticism of your portfolio is that there is simply too much work there and some of the work, while not by any means bad, is out shined by some of your better pieces. A few pieces i personally don't think are up to snuff: Haiti Poster Project, Social Posters, Logos (I would just let the SATO48 identity exist all in one project), CNAS Lecture Series....
That said your illustrations are great!
And now that I think of it... i dont know that i necessarily mind the fact that you have so much work... because most of it is good... but maybe indexhibit is a poor choice of portfolio? Seems like if you could set up a good click-through portfolio to allow a user to move through your entire body of work without having to shift back to the framed menu (which btw because of my laptop screen gets a scroll-bar added to it) it might enhance the user experience of browsing your work a little.
That's all though! Great stuff!
- repeat this for me. Scrollbar bit as well. Great work, scroll bar is annoying.orrinward
- Thesocialgospel0
Thanks for the advice! Do you have any suggestions on a site service? Pay a friend in beers to do it? I know nothing about web....
- boobs0
If you pay in beer, you get a drunk's website! lol No, that will prolly work with a school buddy.
There are two schools of thought about portfolio work. One is to show everything that meets a certain minimum level of quality. The portfolio will be big, which will impress some people. And people respond to the strangest things, so the more work you have, the better chance you have of impressing someone.
The other school of thought is to severely limit your portfolio to a few exceptionally good pieces, and leave everything else at home. The idea here is that you can concentrate people's attention on your best stuff, and they're less likely to be annoyed that you're taking up their time showing them too much crappy work. Of course, this leaves in place the idea that you might leave something the person would have really liked in you closet.
Both schools of thought have their adherents and successes. I usually go with the second one, since it's easier to present fewer pieces.
- Yeah... great points. I couldn't imagine presenting that much work... that would be like a 2+ hour interview.d_rek
- Thesocialgospel0
what about two separate sites for design and illustration?
- acrossthesea0
I love SSLYBY
- Thesocialgospel0
I just did a promo poster for their new album! Pre-order it, it is going to be awesome!
http://danielzender.com/index.ph…
- dMullins0
Too much stuff. I looked at the first few, but did not have the patience to look at it all. Good work though. This portfolio could really be improved with a better presentation format. Indexhibit is not doing you any favors here.
- orrinward0
I like your work but as with most others, I didn't have the patience to look.
As an illustrator I think you'll want to show off all your different styles so I wouldn't recommend cutting half your work out. Instead, maybe have image thumbnails so you can get a broad view of your range?
- Thesocialgospel0
Yeah, that is a good idea!
- Thesocialgospel0
Made somma my posters available for sale:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Thesoci…
More updates on mys ite....
- grafician0
Go with something like this: http://archive.nandocosta.com/
Invest the beer money and buy a C argo subscription for a year and add all your stuff there. You can still set your custom domain and C argo looks way better than Indexhibit!
Good luck!
- hektor9110
I got say I like your illustrations...
- seed0
Great, fun style and impressive amount of work. Good job.
- hellojeehae0
great stuff. definitely agree that you should be more selective with your work.