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The One Page Graphic Design Portfolio Guide
youthedesigner.com — "The portfolio website format discussed in the guide is great for several reasons, we will give you tips on how to create your own one page graphic design portfolio and how you can market it for free."
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- iraq, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Nice designs, gotta unleash your inner creative soul onto those kinds of pages. I've seen some great portfolio pages with not-so-great 'work' though, so need some good examples of past work to go along with the slick portfolio page.
- junosama, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Yeah thats very true, I've seen a lot of portfolios where the designers personal site is much better then anything else in their portfolio because they spent so much time on their site and probably not as much time on their portfolio pieces. Also even if you are a print designer or photographer the appearance of your portfolio site greatly impacts what clients will think of your work in general even if you did not design the site yourself it still reflects on you and your business.
- smackhero, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1well, part of the problem is that some clients are very difficult to work with and tend to limit the creative control given to the designer. even though you are hired to design a website, the client is still the one who has to approve the design, and often they will choose a poor artistic direction because they aren't very design conscious. it sort of defeats the purpose of hiring a good designer if you aren't willing to let them make the important design decisions and trust their professional judgment.
in many cases, if the designer is unable to sell the client on a good artistic direction for the site design, they end up losing their motivation to build a good-looking site. i mean, what are you supposed to do when the client insists on using clashing colors, or mimicking poor design practices? this is the primary reason why many graphic designers have incredibly beautiful designs on their own website, but the designs in their actual portfolio are inconsistent with their obvious design talent.
with your own portfolio page, you can implement the design the way you want as you have complete artistic control. but sometimes that in itself creates a problem where the portfolio is designed to impress other graphic/web designers, and may be less attractive to potential business clients. so the question is, do you design for the sake of producing good designs, or compromise your art for commercial success?- junosama, on 02/01/2008, -0/+2Thats a good point clients and designers often disagreee on certain parts of the design process, but I tihnk part of being a good designer is being able to "negotiate" with the client and try to lead them in what you belive is the best direction, but many times this will jsut not work and you just need to get the project done.
All this is hard to do, but one way to avoid this is to never present your client with anything you really dislike. Try and make all your design concepts as strong as possible.
In terms of creative freedom I think the opportunity of being able to do freelance work is a good way for designers to work on creative projects in their free time if they do find themselves stuck with a boring uncreative corporate type job. Everyone needs to pay the bills, but as designer we also want to express ourselves through are work and I think its definitely possible to be creatively happy as a designer if you want too.
- junosama, on 02/01/2008, -0/+2Thats a good point clients and designers often disagreee on certain parts of the design process, but I tihnk part of being a good designer is being able to "negotiate" with the client and try to lead them in what you belive is the best direction, but many times this will jsut not work and you just need to get the project done.
- smackhero, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1well, part of the problem is that some clients are very difficult to work with and tend to limit the creative control given to the designer. even though you are hired to design a website, the client is still the one who has to approve the design, and often they will choose a poor artistic direction because they aren't very design conscious. it sort of defeats the purpose of hiring a good designer if you aren't willing to let them make the important design decisions and trust their professional judgment.
- sicc, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I used to be a creative... Nice logos, Print Work, Adverts, Magazine, ..Adobe... Then Web Work.. Now im just a internet geek :( LOL I used to paint nice pictures with real paint ..whats happed to me!! LOL
Sicc - Mitchbones, on 02/01/2008, -0/+3Quality post yet again. I am getting into the design field and starting to work on my portfolio site, this is gonna help a lot.
- JustCreative, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1I agree with you junosama... the portfolio should be the shining piece :) another good post gino ;)
- breefield, on 02/01/2008, -0/+5www.serialcut.com
One of the best one page portfolios I've ever run across. - junosama, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1That is a nice find breefield I would say its a classical example of what a great one page portfolio should look like!
- mikeinteractive, on 02/01/2008, -0/+0I love one page portfolios. I think it's so much better than a full site. It's a lot less clicks too!
- bloggerbuster, on 02/08/2008, -0/+0This is the kind of site I really love to find! I'm just considering creating my own online portfolio, so I found this post at just the perfect time :)
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