Spent alot of time recently concentrating on my work and really trying to nail the look and vibe of my portfolio. It has to look right, has to represent me as a designer, and has to stand out and look vibrant, dazzling, relevant.
Adapted my main colour and theme a little, as you can see here...
Which is a little more artistic and cool, has a nice urban feel to it too, which i want to retain.
Had a bit of a huge scan for other artwork and images too, seeing what stood out to me, what colours and styles I liked the look of, looking for both ideas and inspiration.
The following images really hit home...
I especially liked the scheme of the last one, with the neatness of the white BG playing an un-intrusive host to the dynamic colour mix of the main figure. In general, I liked how the vibrant colours worked well within their given contexts, and helped the content, be it text or images, really stand out. In a nutshell, that's what a portfolio should do, so I went back to work on my design and reworked a few of the ideas I now had.
Here's what I came up with as the final kind of layout design and colour scheme...
Each section would still retain the now lot less boring colour scheme of the original layout, with each one taking you to a different page. I might even make it so that InDesign uses these as actual buttons to take you to each section.
The idea will be to have a block on the right of each colour in turn, with the relevant writing and images upon, crossfading smoothly between each one. This will take a lot of work in InDesign no doubt, something I don't yet now how to do, but for now, I'm quite happy with the basic backbone of my portfolio.
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