portfolio crit
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- acuddyre
hiya -
I'm just working on a new portfolio / website. I graduated in June of this year and would really appreciate some constructive feedback...
thanks!
Xx
- typist0
may i ask which school?
- acuddyre0
I finished my BA in graphics this June from Central Saint Martins
- typist0
ah.....i see now, CSM !
go back and study another 3 years please
- Fariska0
Not bad,
The menu looks too compressed and dark. Work on it to make more interesting and eye-catchy.Be consisent on the interface:
you got light arrows, standard Helvetica for the "menu" and "Times new roman" project description. One style will be less distracting and overall better.Lose the bouncing thing or make it better and smoother, looks you just used the tweener classes for the first time and you spent no effort on it.
Would be good to have some information about you or at least some way to contact you. How a potential employer would contact you otherwise?
The works are really good. So spend some more time crafting a proper container for them. The above may sound harsh, but is just a matter of details.
- uncle_helv0
Where did you do the Heart Foundation stuff, was that done at a placement, I do like that a lot, I'm sure I've seen it on an another agency website though??
I quite like the layout of the navigation, but it is very clunk from page to page!
- I did it during my internship at Sennep. They did the website.acuddyre
- very nice!uncle_helv
- yeah, they do amazing stuff!acuddyre
- you mean you help to make the type on wall right? or you design the typographic heart yourself?typist
- Sennep had the initial heart designed for the navigation of the site, and then client gave us new content for the mural which I designed.acuddyre
- acuddyre0
cool, thanks, really appreciate the feedback. X
- migy0
I like it
- neue75_bold0
some nice work there.. personally I'd prefer to see a slightly more conventional website, as a recent graduate it's best to not potentially put anyone off straight-away and I closed it after I saw the homepage, but then felt bad and forced myself to dig deeper...
- hahaha... "felt bad and forced myself to dig deeper".
I agree with you though.NotByHand
- hahaha... "felt bad and forced myself to dig deeper".
- moamoa0
I really like the heart foundation work.
- WeLoveNoise0
did u make that heart foundation piece ?
i have it tagged in ffffound - i love it- thanks! I worked on it during my internship at Sennep.acuddyre
- beautiful - not amazing keen on the site cos the dimmed colour wasnt legible but the work is beautifulWeLoveNoise
- 23kon0
nice work.
I personally wouldnt call your work Graphic Design, more Graphic Illustration / Art / Photography.
Your work is quite different from the norm - which is a compliment btw :P and i think your site looks and works fine. I do like the homepage for it with all the different fonts stacked.
Good enough for a new graduate i'd say - i wouldnt really expect anything more
- skii0
smorgasborg of fonts. HF stuff is lush. Get Sennep to do your site for you!!! that Checkland Kindleysides site they did is outrageous.
- Horp0
Alexis, Ignore these third rate halfwits, when you graduate from Central Saint Martins the opinions of lesser beings counts for nothing but amusement.
Is Geoff Fowle still hanging in there? Is he loved as a maverick visionary or loathed as a rambling lunatic at the moment... opinion tends to alternate from year to year.
- Additional: Love the City Sign Language... was that your graduation show piece?Horp
- Final comment, remove the 'onward' arrow at the end of each set of images.Horp
- LOVE your work, Horp. (I'm afraid I don't know Geoff Fowle...)acuddyre
- Oh, he must have left. he was third year tutor for years. Andrew Whittle's arch enemy. Whittle still there?Horp
- cool, thanks - City installation was for a show i did whilst studying in the states.acuddyre
- neue75_bold0
my comment/feedback was meant to be constructive, not hurtful nor for amusement you ballbag...
- lol '...you ballbag..'Jnr_Madison
- HAHAHA Is this comment for me? If so, I was only jorking Mike, merely climbing aboard my CSM high horse.Horp
- :Pneue75_bold
- * licks bald bawbagneue75_bold
- skii0
love the csm design course stuff! v. nice! v. clean
- designbot0
+1 on what Horp said. For some reason some peeps on here love being complete assholes.
I'm not sure if I am keen on the navigation. what skii said about a "smorgasborg of fonts" I agree with. You were probably going for something a bit different, but I personally think it would look better cleaned up and simplified (or maybe if you just used some different fonts). Other than that, the way the nav works is really solid...simple and I like the highlight and bounce effect. One other thing is you might change those arrows to something a little less "generic", anything even a more solid arrow with a gradient I think would look better.
Nice work, and nice site overall! Best of luck getting your first gig.
- neue75_bold0
OMG, PLS STP H8TING ON THE CSM PEEPS, FFS!!
- Hahahahahahahauncle_helv
- We will always count you as one of us now. Thank you for your support friend.Horp
- haha, my comment actually wasn't directed towards you.designbot
- kelpie0
I like the smorgasborg. keep it. I like it especially because you have chosen lots of fonts which immediately set most designers teeth to grinding uncontrollably. I'd brighten the nav and sort the bouncing out though.
could do with loaders on your images too.
I like the way you think, you'll go far.
Obviously you'll go far anyway though sa you're a graduate of the Bullingdon Club of art schools ;)
- what's with all the hatorade?neue75_bold
- its an addiction, methadone for my bitterness...kelpie
- ps. 1st - 3rd paragraphs totally serious. 4th paragraph jokekelpie
- lololol thanks_kelpie..neue75_bold
- typist0
this thread is about portfolio crit or cut some slack for the new grad?
oh wait, is it about digging a chick?