Hmmm... not sure if this makes more sense or not.
I wanted it to be sorta IKEA-ish.
January 17, 2010
January 16, 2010
New Portfolio
Again.
Except this time, I finished it under a week's time and I'm pretty satisfied with it. I finished my old 'new' portfolio after 4 months and hate it.
Weird how that happens. I guess I just thought of a concept that I really liked and ran with it, as opposed to trying to make something work that I wasn't really crazy for in the first place. I realized that it's much better to make something clean, simple, and consistent. I thought I was doing that with my old 'new' portfolio, but the end product is hardly that. Anyways, here's part of the new new one:
This time I went with a horizontal format... as in 8.5 inches x 11 feet. I played with that and came up with a timeline concept, and how someone's work is most commonly arranged chronologically. I tried to also factor that into how the portfolio is read in physical form (folds out), and electronically (scroll a long PDF). It still needs some tweaking/polishing, but its more or less finished. Gimmicky, but hopefully unique in a good way.
Except this time, I finished it under a week's time and I'm pretty satisfied with it. I finished my old 'new' portfolio after 4 months and hate it.
Weird how that happens. I guess I just thought of a concept that I really liked and ran with it, as opposed to trying to make something work that I wasn't really crazy for in the first place. I realized that it's much better to make something clean, simple, and consistent. I thought I was doing that with my old 'new' portfolio, but the end product is hardly that. Anyways, here's part of the new new one:
This time I went with a horizontal format... as in 8.5 inches x 11 feet. I played with that and came up with a timeline concept, and how someone's work is most commonly arranged chronologically. I tried to also factor that into how the portfolio is read in physical form (folds out), and electronically (scroll a long PDF). It still needs some tweaking/polishing, but its more or less finished. Gimmicky, but hopefully unique in a good way.
December 13, 2009
lol.
Ok, so I guess I shouldn't feel so inadequate when clients don't choose my designs. This is what two different clients went with:
So gross. It confuses me.
So gross. It confuses me.
November 15, 2009
Freelance :O
Recently I've been trying to get into freelancing. Right now I'm designing handbills for an Asian American variety show at the Palace of Fine Arts in SF. They want something hip, clean, bold, sorta retro (and said something like the (r)evolutions design would work). It's all very rough right now (i.e. the text, colors, etc), this is just for the client to get an idea of the different directions I could go in.
Nothing very asian american about these designs, but... not so sure how to pull that off without doing the obvious KANJI here, PAGODA there, and a lil bit of GENERIC ASIAN FONT.
I'm not charging nearly as much as people suggest that I should, but it's what I gotta do to keep the clients happy... and to keep my clients. period. It's kinda rough, but at least I'll be getting SOME form of compensation.. blahblahblahblah
im tired. time to sleep.
Nothing very asian american about these designs, but... not so sure how to pull that off without doing the obvious KANJI here, PAGODA there, and a lil bit of GENERIC ASIAN FONT.I'm not charging nearly as much as people suggest that I should, but it's what I gotta do to keep the clients happy... and to keep my clients. period. It's kinda rough, but at least I'll be getting SOME form of compensation.. blahblahblahblah
im tired. time to sleep.
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