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10 Essential Tips for Creating that Killer Portfolio
A warm welcome to you dear reader! If you have not already, why not subscribe to The Design Sojourn Newsletter and get my latest thoughts on Strategies for Good Design conveniently delivered right to your inbox? It's free! You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook as well. Thanks for visiting and please keep in touch? It is actually a perfect time to update your portfolio! Not only are we somewhere in the middle of the year, we are right smack in the middle of summer and it’s blistering out there! I have therefore compiled a list essential and useful tips (I hope!) 1) A portfolio is a story about you. A lot people say a portfolio is a selling tool. 2) Have an intro page. This might be a no brainer, but a well-designed introduction page sets the tonality of your portfolio presentation. 3) Keep the number of projects in your portfolio to between 8-10. As time goes by, you are bound to build a drawer or a hard drive full of design projects that you have played a part in. 6) Who did what?
Thoughts on Design Portfolios
Saturday, April 14th, 2012 | Posted by Jon Kolko Designers are typically judged based on their portfolio of work. When I worked at frog, I encountered lots of unsolicited portfolios. The sad reality of sending a portfolio to a consultancy is that your chances of getting a job are a weighted dice roll, based on a mixture of extremely fast first impressions, serendipitous timing, and who you know. When I would receive a portfolio from someone I’d never heard of, I tried my best to actually look at it, but if my schedule was three-deep back to back meetings all day long, the email was ignored. Sometimes, if the sender got lucky, they might send it on the same day that a plea for hiring went out, usually based on a sales cycle accelerating or a deal closing unexpectedly. This portfolio shows what a candidate has done, how they’ve done it, and how proficient they are at it. Your portfolio doesn’t need to be big. Attention to detail matters, a lot. Show exploratory process. 1 Comment »
50 Best Sites To Get Design Inspiration
Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here Looking for hosting?. We recommend MediaTemple for web hosting. Use Code MTLOVESDESIGN for 20% off Every designer needs inspiration once in a while Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, Here I’ve composed a list inspiration most of the designers use, This list contains galleries range from of Graphic Design, Web design, Interface Design, Stationary Design, Logo Design, Typography, Motion Graphics to Online Magazines. This post is almost a continuation of the post. Sites to Check for Graphic Design Inspiration 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Sites to Check for Interface Design Inspiration 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sites to Check for Web Design Inspiration 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Sites to Check for Stationery Design Inspiration 1. 2. 3. Sites to Check for Packaging Design Inspiration 1. 2. Sites to Check for Logo Design Inspiration 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sites to Check for Typography Design Inspiration 1. 2. 3. 4.
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moviebarcode contact | twitter | index | prints 2014/04/12 28 notes The Karate Kid, Part III (1989) 2014/04/11 144 notes The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) 2014/04/10 35 notes The Mark of Zorro (1940) 2014/04/09 20 notes Flandersui gae / Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) 2014/04/08 41 notes The Last Airbender (2010) 2014/04/07 21 notes Il mio nome è Nessuno / My Name Is Nobody (1973) 2014/04/06 122 notes Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira / Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) 2014/04/05 18 notes Jing wu ying xiong / Fist of Legend (1994) 2014/04/04 176 notes Despicable Me 2 (2013) 2014/04/03 21 notes Cinema Jenin: The Story of a Dream (2011) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next » clear theme by parti powered by tumblr
Moviebarcode: OBlog: Design Observer
Moviebarcode: "every frame in a movie compressed into a line, giving an idea of the colour palette used by the filmmakers." (via reddit) 12 Angry Men (1957) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Graduate (1967) The Shining (1980) The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Weird Faces Study by Matthias Dörfelt (@mokafolio) using @PaperJS
Created by Matthias Dörfelt aka mokafolio, Weird Faces Study uses PaperJS library to produce computer generated faces that have a certain aesthetics and are immediately recognisable. Weird Faces Study is an attempt to combine my old interest in illustration with programing, to create something procedural that has a truly individual artistic touch to it and is not instantly recognisable as a generative art piece. Even though, the faces look hand-drawn, they are entirely expressed by algorithmic rules. Each face is random, each face is unique. Still, they look similar to my actual hand drawn faces. The faces are generated in a similar way as potato head (the toy). Weird Faces Study has been programed in Java Script using the great PaperJS library. Project Page
NeuroKnitting: Knitting a Personalized Scarf from Brainwave Activity
NeuroKnitting [knitic.com] by Varvara Guljajeva, Mar Canet, and Sebastian Mealla consists of a collection of knitted garments that represent the wearer's affective and cognitive states while listening to Bach's Goldberg Variations' aria and its first 7 variations. First the EEG correlates of relaxation, engagement and cognitive load were recorded while people were listening to the musical piece. This information was then used by an open hardware knitting machine Knitic to create a bicolor pattern for knitting several scarves. The knitted garments thus visualize the listener's affective and cognitive states as a unique and personalized textile pattern.
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Face Reality As It Is: Anamorphic Typography by Thomas Quinn
When viewed head on, what at first looks like typography on top of a simple photograph reveals itself to be well-executed anamorphic typography by Chicago designer Thomas Quinn. The illusion is created using a standard light projector that projects the intended design on an uneven surface which is then carefully painted. From every other angle the work looks skewed and almost illegible, but when you stand at just the right spot everything seems to pop into place. You can see many variations of anamorphism right here on Colossal, and don’t forget the absolute master of the art form, Felice Varini. (via this isn’t happiness)
