Hey everybody I'm a junior graphic designer with 9 months' experience and would love to hear your feedback about my portfolio work.
Link to my Portfolio
https://brit-a.squarespace.com/
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- @Dima Grinkevych Thank you for the feedback and article suggestion.
- @Geoffrey Bunting Thank you so much for taking the time to review my work! You gave a lot to think about and improve on. I took a look at my work with a different set of eyes after your feedback and you make some good points. I will be making some changes in my portfolio based on your comments.Once again thank you for the help and have good one!
- I'd probably get a domain. You're starting a portfolio that's going to stay with you for the rest of your career, so the sooner you get it attached to you the better.I'd also pull the identity around your name, rather than an alias. Not only because it makes your brand more personal, but it then gels with your social media presence. Everything you link on your site is under your own name, so is your The Dots profile, yet your portfolio is under Brit-a. Again, when you start, you want to consolidate your brand into something solid across the board.Onto your work, it's solid but it feels student-y. Both in application and span. It's the kind of spread of projects one would expect from someone who's just graduated. You probably want to start self-initiating a few projects to help drive your portfolio towards the work you want to do, and for which you want to be employed. Your portfolio is a living thing, projects should be pulled and added regularly to keep it fresh and be representative of your current skill levels. That's how you set yourself apart, by your portfolio being representative of you and what you want to do.If that's branding, let's see some brands that aren't blue and red; which aren't sans-serif and rational. If it's illustration, let's see that applied somewhere. Having a range of perceived skills is great, but you need a focus onto which that can be applied. For instance, I'm a book designer; my portfolio is about book design and my photography and illustration skills are service to that.I don't agree you need to rationalise everything you do. When I was employing folks, some of the best portfolios let the work do the talking. Some of the worst did a lot of talking about the work. Just because a copywriter writes a blog post telling you to write about your work, doesn't mean you should. It means they want you to hire them to do it for you.Good employers (and good clients) are going to understand visuals and the process involved. A finished product, laid out well, does that. If you want to add a few developmental elements, you can do that, but we know how to recognise good work, done well, to specification. Similarly, you want to leave room for conversation - whether in interview or commissioning. Again, good employers will ask you to talk about your work and processes and will want to know you can do that to them (and clients) without remembering something you slapped on your portfolio.You've got a good start. You just need to tighten your brand and decide what you actually want to do and target that. Build a portfolio that's sharp, focussed, and you're passionate about rather than shoving everything you've ever done in one place accompanied by an essay.
- Hi, Raquel!It is really important to showcase your work with relevant description and comments to visuals. I would recommend running through this article and checking few others about beginner's portfolio: https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/design-portfolio-copy/Basically, you need to give clients and companies understanding of how you make design decisions and think, this can make a beautiful showcase a great showcase.
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