Building a Graphics Design portfolio?

Jonny_no2 said:
Perhaps something along the lines of turning the A in the middle into a broadcast antenna?
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Good idea. :)

tsinc80697 said:
Things like that you should be discussing before even putting pencil to paper.

Lesson learned I suppose though
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The guidelines he gave me at the start were just that the name and frequency were to be used and the colours yellow, red and black used.

He also said, in his own words, "you have complete creative control". :p

Ah well, back to the drawing board.
 
By the way, I've been messing about thinking of a less generic design and this is what I've ended up with.

Not happy with it at all though but it's always good to see where ideas go.

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Flash based idea with pretty much everything animated in some way.

I.E. the transparency of navigation bars change depending on what page you are viewing... gallery appears over centre space, Blog entries open in flash popup etc.
 
Get rid of the symmetrical nonsense, this isnt school :p - very PixelJunk Eden - going in the right direction though (need more font consistency)...

Unsure how it would work when you have a lot of content (perhaps its rolls up down headers/titles into content)...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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skippi90 said:
Still, history should be put behind us. Do the greeks still refuse to use a horse as a symbol or logo? :p
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its an important lesson in design and one that you shouldn't brush aside

i dont mean to sound smug, its just the truth :)

edit- did you design your website from scratch or from a template? either way its a good effort :), i really need to get around to making myself a website rather than just a blog :o
 
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ojste said:
its an important lesson in design and one that you shouldn't brush aside

i dont mean to sound smug, its just the truth :)

edit- did you design your website from scratch or from a template? either way its a good effort :), i really need to get around to making myself a website rather than just a blog :o
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Made from scratch and used deviantArt to find inspiration. :p The like of the navbars was an idea from dA.
 
ps3ud0 said:
Get rid of the symmetrical nonsense, this isnt school :p - very PixelJunk Eden - going in the right direction though (need more font consistency)...

Unsure how it would work when you have a lot of content (perhaps its rolls up down headers/titles into content)...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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Yeah, I just like symmetry. :p

The like of the text in the bottom bar, in flash, you can have a scrollbar to the side to browse that piece.
 
looking good :)

the colours on those tabs look out of place, would look better in green/shades of green.

also why is there 2 sets of tabs leading to home/about/blog etc.
 
I reckon it would look better with the logo box at the top reduced in size. Something I'm never keen on with certain sites is vast empty spaces in the middle of pages. But that's just my take on it, I'm sure others will disagree.
 
Learn about grids and typography skippi, please. 3 pointers for you from me:

1. Attention to detail, the little things make or break it, sharpness is for the win.

2. Grids are your friend, they give structure and allow ease, work with numbers/ratios too.

3. Let your type breathe, add some line-height to make it easier on the eye. Use maybe 2 typefaces and keep the consistency.
 
skippi90 said:
How's this then?

I've taken on board all comments and gone for something simple and clean.

[IM]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3355/design5.jpg[/IMG]
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Nice again, although, you are wasting a lot of space with having a logo in your content, i think it would look better if you text area took up a larger area and you just had some kind of generic design in the background on the left without the logo.

One thing, when you are putting text in are you useing <p> tags around your paragraphs, only there is no space between one an the next. Also I would have line height set to about 150% at least to space out your text.
 
lo skip!

Any chance you could have a go at producing a logo for our programming team (Project Banshee - a group of us OcUKer's getting together to put a game together). I saw your entries in the OCUK logo compeition and thought they where ace so thought I'd ask! (see my sig for more details)

Cheers

Dangerstat

(sorry for hijacking!)
 
dangerstat said:
lo skip!

Any chance you could have a go at producing a logo for our programming team (Project Banshee - a group of us OcUKer's getting together to put a game together). I saw your entries in the OCUK logo compeition and thought they where ace so thought I'd ask! (see my sig for more details)

Cheers

Dangerstat

(sorry for hijacking!)
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Absolutely. :D

Any particular style or content you want it to have? Email in trust if you want to send the details. :)

Thanks. :)
 
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