portfolio review
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- piperboytoy
Hi, was updating some work. i have work from 2004 - 08. not sure if it's too much. I've been staring at this for 3 days and not sure if i like anything. Let me know. any feedback will be welcomed.
thanks
- piperboytoy0
anyone?
- Leigh0
gimme a sec, only just got into work.
- mistermik0
haha yeah - too eager.
some nice bits.
- piperboytoy0
sorry i was getting ready for bed. :(
i wonder if i should take out stuff? i like my old work more but trying to show newer work.
- neue75_bold0
love the overall structure.. the top of the page is beautiful, nice type, grid, etc.. the work is not totally my thing, but it is well done.. Agree that it might be too much..
what about having a nav that gives you the ability to only show either 'web' 'identity' or 'illustration' at one time?
- piperboytoy0
thanks. I usually put my illustrations on my other site. http://www.piperboy.com. i think I might just take the illustrations out and put only web related stuff there.
I am going to redo this eventually but still keeping the one page thing and i will try to separate the work with a nav. thanks for your feedback- that's right, I thought you had another site..neue75_bold
- yeah i need to change that too. kind of oldpiperboytoy
- Leigh0
i think some projects could be presented little better... for example Nokia experience center, it's all a bit too small to see maybe show just one or two larger screens?.
Overall though a good solid mixture of work.
- do you not have a better image of CANADAGOES WILD ??
Leigh - yeah it links to the site. but the link is a tiny txt link. i will probably like with the image. thankspiperboytoy
- do you not have a better image of CANADAGOES WILD ??
- piperboytoy0
thanks leigh. yeah i might add a javascript to show a bigger screen.
- ian0
I like the work, some good stuff in there. I would consider changing the identites section though, looks like you've added your own identity to pad it out, put another one in there to show some range.
The links to the active sites are very subtle, took me ages to realise that you could click through to them, perhaps make the images link to the sites too, I tried clicking on them several times and thought maybe it was all just concept work or unfinished until I saw the wee red link.
Also, you start with a list of companies rather than work, perhaps move it or link up the company name with work you've done for them so when you click it brings you to the relevant work?
All minor quibbles mind, so feel free to tell me to bugger off.
- thanks for your suggestion. i'll probably link the work to the site. and put the client names on the work as well. those are small easy fixes, it'll do for now until i have time to redo the entire thing. thanks againpiperboytoy
- rybo0
the web stuff is great maybe the logos are too small make them bigger?
- fodcj0
Some good work. Especially like the Nice site design and the pin badges image :)
- JerseyRaindog0
I like the structure Edvin - good approach to whole one page folio thing. I do think there maybe too much work in there though. Sometimes less is more yaddah yaddah yaddah...
- skwiotsmith0
The site could use a lot of trimming. On top of that, I've never enjoyed one page portfolios. Basically I get bored and close the window before I finish viewing the work.
Why is your client list set in such large type? I'm happy you've worked with all these people, but man, at the same time I don't care that much...
- This from the guy who's site is right aligned and basically functions quite similar.Andrew_D
- I'm not really seeing the similarities. Sorry...skwiotsmith
- janne760
jesus, edvin, tis been years!
- MSTRPLN0
Turn the red down a notch
- cosmicEntity0
I like the work, but you need a photo. It could put people off.
- I see what you did there :)fodcj
- I know, I'm very sharp.cosmicEntity
- a photo for every project?piperboytoy
- hallelujah0
v. nice site structure/design... the dot letterforms look slightly awkward to me... such a variety of work it's hard to make it hold together as a graphic artifact without looking sloppy...
- but I always think that about portfolios with websiteshallelujah
- Nairn0
Like neue says, that header section is gorgeous.
Like Jersey says - less work might be more.
Like Ian says - links might be a bit inscrutableLike Nairn says - I dislike the "Have done branding.." sub header text - that doesn't read well - "who or what have?". Also, I find the "made in Canada" thing distracting - you're based in California, right? Where are your clients expecting you to be from? I wish there was a bit more to the footer - even if it is just a duplication, content-wise, of what you have at the top. I'd drop those Nike concept visuals as well - sorry, I think they look quite amateur and don't (at first glance) appear to bear any relation to the site itself. You don't have a photo of the Visa Signature lounge snow thing to use? It's a bit hard to appreciate in its flat, illustrated form.
Good job, man.
- great feedback, thanks. i'll definitely make some changes.
I don't have any shots of the visa thing. i went home for xmas and never go to see it at westfield. i do have a few shots of it in our office but they were taken with my crappy iiphone camera. :(piperboytoy - Disagree about the Nike comment. Leave it in, CD's shit themselves over anything Nike.Andrew_D
- great feedback, thanks. i'll definitely make some changes.
- ChankD0
Great diversity of work. I agree with most of the comments previous. Wish some of the appeal of the header would make its way through the site.
Curious, did you actually complete the Jostens work 0107? My company worked with them in late 07 and we never heard mention of previous work.
- thanks. maybe i'll tweak the typography a bit to carry the consistancy. Hmm. the josten work was done at blast. I had no idea what happened. They just asked for designs. but i didn't know what happened afterwards.piperboytoy
- we were asked to give them designs but i never found out what happened. where you guys asked to design? I kept checking the jostens site and it never seemed to changed.piperboytoy
- We also were given the highschool segment to design, but project got canned do to internal mumbo.ChankD
- adamrobertson0
I like it. Good site, good work, and you're from Canada.