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- WOWBROW
Come on kids, rip it apart.
http://www.simonwhybray.com
- aliceblue0
looks like every other blog
until I clicked on "portfolio"
-nice stuff there.If the intention is to get work, perhaps it needs a rework, then.
The blog "workshop" should be secondary.just my opinion:)
- mrdobolina0
I like it, it feels very light and I like the whitespace. I agree with Alice, though. Put the work front and center and mark your "cv" link so the user knows it is linking to a pdf. That is a bit of a pet peeve of mine :)
Nice work
- tank0
your work is ace.
very fresh.
- jaylarson0
oh boy.
your cv is "too casual". just let the categories speak for themselves like:
Education
Professional Experience instead of "Things I have done before" - nix"I learned stupid amounts
working for them." this should be removed unless you are trying to get work with young college kids straight outta school.the idea is to remove the access.
"I did some work experience at Gendall Design in
Falmouth. I got to work on some stuff for the Eden
Project." what did you do?"On a previous CV this paragraph said ‘I am proficient
in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop etc...’ but I think
I can safely say that that’s now a given" no it is not.
- Wolfboy0
Good stuff, well done for getting through Falmouth too. I came through there and had the best three years ever.
I spent three years and never went to the castle once.
- HafDed0
Nice fresh work - & that is one helluva sweet lil choppper....
- petrol0
big up the up the MK massive!
- Witt0
who's Eatock? the Pope of left-side nav?
- WOWBROW0
thanks kids.
aliceblue, thanks lady, I have a job (just started one at a place called Perfect Day in the big L), the site is a place where I can post work I do otherwise.
thanks for the link tip mrdobolina.
jaylarson, you'd be suprised at the responce I get to my CV. It may be informal, but I'm only young, and it makes me stand out amoung the thousands of graduates and other designers that have 'professional experience' as a title in their CV.
big up yo self petrol
- uberdesigner_0
nice work your resume is stupid
- Myke0
You have some nice work. I really enjoyed the story about the nice guy that reunited you with your wallet.
- rasko40
Personally I don't like you.
that's my initial response garnered from looking over your site, cv and your above comment where you call everyone 'kids' - even though most people in this thread are probably older and more experienced than you. You have some nice work and while your CV may attempt to be informal and personable I find it and the tone of your copy to be somewhat arrogant and actually it gives away so much about you that I am left with little interest, in fact, I am bored by you. I can imagine just what sort of person you are down to the silly obsession with stale nostalgia objects like your raleigh chopper.
Of course, I am being extremely and infairly judgemental now, but I am highlighting in exxageration how I found my experience.
And seriously how can this eatock guy have the ordacity to lay claim to that style of site and navigation, and how do people credit him with it? Pure idiocy.
- Rand0
he did say "rip it apart", after all
- uberdesigner_0
I hate you more than Myke hates you x10. You seem like a real tool. You can roll up your unfunny resume and jam it up your ass along with your portfolio of derivitive work.
On the other hand you are probably overcompensating for a lack of common sense. Your referring to people as 'kids' does show that you have an asshole streak. Also, your work is good for a student/recent grad, but you are far from my level of design skillz. Email me for pointers at
- josimarX0
I agree with Rasko and Uber. Overall, i thought your work was ok, NOTHING i hadn't seen before really. Something about your turn of phrase niggled me when i first browsed your site though and Rasko and Uber hit the neail on the head, you sound too big for your boots pal. A year outta college is fuck all.
Good luck though. It reminds me of a guy up here 'Leftofsix' Colin somebody or other (pretty design Dundee graduate of one or two years) who I heard is an arrogant tit.
- josimarX0
hmmmph, that shoulda been... "(pretty DECENT design Dundee graduate of one or two years)"
not:
(pretty design Dundee graduate of one or two years)I'm no willy woofter.
- Witt0
you can instantly became a nicer man if you unintentionally mispell Eatock in your webs.
- rasko40
as soon as I saw that guy on my msn contacts as 'Colin (working at attik)' I had to remove him, fucking placement namedroppers eeeuw.
- josimarX0
hey rasko, apparently Attik booted the cunt out for being a total cock.
- josimarX0
well, or they hated him or something... can't remember ths story.