Selling Myself!?
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- _mak
I'm unemployed, like alot of people on here but Ive recently re-designed my portfolio site.
Some things I'm still working on and havent put up yet but you tend to get the idea. I wanted a really direct approach for employers, that was the aim, but still keep it stylised.
I'd like to know what anyone thinks about it, especially industry people, if you like it or not...any constructive comments would be great,
thanksLee
- _mak0
heres the link if anyone couldnt find it in my profile.
- TNDAP0
I'm feeling it, the overall site has a clean look cool that should be consistent, the fact that the main interface icaons are not aligned really irks me other than that it looks like you are ready to rock.
- _mak0
thanks TNDAP, the original plan was to align them but, it kinda looked too uniform....
glad you like it,
- Louno0
hmm i LOVE your style ...
damn it why did you have to post this , now i feel like a piece of shit ... ( not as if , i wasnt before , but , even more damn it ) ...
- sauerbraten0
here's my comments Lee:
industry people can generally spot then younger-type designers. i don't know how young you are.. but anyway. when a creative director is looking through a portfolio etc. they're looking for real client experience, industry experience and sharp to-the-point examples of the work. anybody trying to get in the industry must have solid training in typography, color theory, composition and of course a good skill set in applications. application knowledge however takes the sideline to having a great understanding of design that truly 'communicates'. i think your backgrounds and such are distracting from the work itself. i'd be more literal, instead of icons, just have text, and one comment i hear all the time from industry people is about type size, be careful. also, it's good to list what firms you've done work for, i can't tell if the projects in your portfolio are just personal studies or were done for real clients.
the feeling i get from your portfolio site is more of a 'experiemental' type. now, if that's your 'style' of design, and you're trying to market yourself to one particular type of client then ok. but i think re-working your current style to more abitrary and more work-example centric would benefit people trying to get a sense of your work experience. keep it basic for your portfolio site. work experience, CV, contact info. people working in firms have to wade through hundreds of portfolios, you want yours to be informative. my general rule of thumb is to create an environment where the work is hilighted and the site itself isn't overshadowing the work. if your work can speak for itself, you're set!
- quamb0
not sure why you applied the glass/ripple effect on the photo?
a great photo spoiled imo.
- _mak0
i applied the glass/ripple effect , not to the whole photo, but the the engine part, as it its generating heat and thats what happens to the air when intense heat is involved.
dont worry, i wouldnt use the glass/ripple effect unless i needed to, in this case, i felt i did.
- renascent0
take note of what sauerbraten said instead of worrying about ripple effects... also show what you have to show, empty section dont help... add the section when you have something to show in it.
- gts50980
Overall, I think it looks nice. But I'd like to see the work featured more prominently than the design of the site. I've seen a lot of great (and successful) art directors with very simple sites. Yours seems to be a type of site that a creative director would have to take time to explore. But they never have time to "explore".
Without redoing the whole thing, one thing that I think would help is to include a thumbnail when you roll over the work instead of only text descriptions.
- jevad0
nice lee - I agree - lineup the icons - and the heat effect wouldn't happen as it was going IN to the engine - as you've done here - only as it was going out I'm afraid!
- vellan0
not that it matters much, but the heat/ripple effect gives it more texture and feeling for me. i like it.
- _mak0
thanks for the comments people.
so most people are in an agreeance about aligning the icons?.........the heat/air effects, is it really that big of a deal?....i added it because apart from altering the colour and making the image look dreamy, it was bare, and it wasnt my image to begin with........but it is free to use. I added the effect so it didnt seem like i'd just added an image and thats it.
Thumbnails instead of text when rolled over?......the reason i used text is that i wanted to supply info about the image before it was clicked and its done in hide show layers......so the thumbnails would have to pre-load and theres a hell of a lot of them.........and i dont want to make viewers wait.
how important are these to change?........all it takes is a click.....
let me know, thanks
- _mak0
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- karlo0
Get in touch win spin - if they say no then you fooked it!
Nice work though!