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- mg330
Really like your sketchbook - http://www.nikdaum.com/art/sketc… but frustrating that I can't go fowards backwards without clicking the numeric pagination, which also does not show the number of the active page.
- I think I can fix that in the script. Will need to check.nikdaum
- mg330
"When I ain't chillin' with a phat spliff or smackin' my hoe, I records my thoughts as drawings in sketchbooks. Some people ax me why I draw in a book. Ain't books for punk-ass bitches? they ax me. Shit dawg, I say. Check it: I draw all over these bitches cause I gotta get my creativity on."
I'm surprised that more people don't take themselves this seriously.
- ESKEMA0
loose the flash Home. make it land directly in "Art"
- cannonball19780
I can't help but notice that the good work on here is talked about using "we" where the smaller pieces are described using "I". In other places you use the type of copy that would be used on an agency portfolio to sensationalize the work (which they can get away with because they actually are a "we"). I'm not sure if you are deliberately hiding the scope of your roles on some of these pieces but it would be good to be more forthcoming on that. If I were hiring, seeing the way you do that on some of the bigger projects combined with the way you talk about yourself would make me pass. I'm super sensitive about that kind of stuff though. I'm sure others might pay it no mind.
- That or I'd grill he shit out of you in the interview about what your role was on each thing,cannonball1978
- Not hiding the role, I think any advertising recruitor would know that as an AD...nikdaum
- my role was to come up with the idea and then supervise the production.nikdaum
- detritus0
Dunno if you've changed it since first posting here (i'm guessing by your sub headline on the home shout), but I really like the 'About' copy.
I'm confused as to what your involvement was in your 'films' section, given you appear to be an illustrator/photograspher? Might be worth thinking about how you channel your various skillsets on the one site.
The amoubnt of time the intro page takes to deliver readable content is irritating.
Doing it in Flash was (imho) a terrible idea.
I didn't click the unMute button. Unless someone's site is about sound design or music or something, I generally wouldn't be interested in it (especially as I'll likely have my own music on at the time anyway).
- animatedgif0
Flash portfolio in 2013 is pretty brave
- GeorgesII0
the work is so good but the site doesn't do it justice,
there are too many layouts;
dordles uses grid, photo uses horizontal,
the other work sections are single page and do not give the possibility to skip between work without going back to the original menu,
I am confused :)
good work none the less
- cannonball19780
I was annoyed by your lack of humility.
- Sandman_19820
If you see your site as being an expression of your personality then it probably does the job, although like others have stated above, there are ways in which the site could be created without flash and have some navigational tweaks in order to improve the user experience.
I too was blown away by the quality of your photography. Impressive!
- qoob0
Feels very 90s
- identity0
If you're ever in Chicago, I'd buy ya a few beers and listen to you talk.
- trooperbill0
the animation make it cheesy - like something a student would produce
- studderine0
Honestly, I find it a bit odd.
I went to your site and I want content — damn it, I want the content. I scrolled down to some nice art/photography, but there wasn't a next stop (i.e., not linked). Well I happened to notice the very small navigation on top of the page so I moved my cursor appropriately. The 'Art' landing page is fairly straight forward and easy to navigate. Great! However, your art/work detail pages require users to jump back to the 'Art' landing page to find more work. Blah.
Great work but a few website tweaks are in order.
- *next stepstudderine
- Thanks man. The bottom images had links initially.nikdaum
- ideaist0
QBN: if you want tight deadlines (immediate), post your site here, redesigned...
- sublocked0
>> Hated
* The audio.
* The site is too wide.
* Should not use flash.>> Loved
* The photos
- nikdaum0
Alright, made the sound off by default and with a toggle if you want it.