welcome back to you Satori graphics and today I'm actually gonna show you two
award-winning portfolios that do gain high professional and highly acclaimed
clients and how they do it I'm gonna show you the techniques and
the format they use to create the stunning portfolios for their graphic
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so here we have the first graph a design portfolio by Melanie and this is
something I really really have liked and I've checked it out before of course
before making the video but it's already really stunning and well planned out
with all portfolio one of the first things you need to take into account
when making a portfolio is your color scheme and I've mentioned this before it
helps to have a running theme throughout the entire portfolio it ties things
together and Melanie has chosen a kind of charcoal black with dark black white
and red which I think they do work really well together as you can see her
navigation panel is there a red which stands out when it's easily easily you
know visible but then scrolling down her page she's got the About section and you
can see here she's even used her color scheme for the white red and black this
is the thinking that you need to have when you're making your graphic design
portfolio she's also aligned the text to the left
which is really really well done and she's kept everything balanced and
consistent this is a really well thought out about paid for her graph lizanne
portfolio and one crucial thing that not many people actually put into the
portfolios is the actually explain their process for the graph design workflow
this creates confidence in the client because they know exactly what's gonna
happen step-by-step and what they can expect from the graphic design projects
we're now heading down to her work which again it's really neatly laid out and
his balance you know symmetrically on one side and
she's using her wife and black his color scheme on the left and obviously on the
right is her work
now we could actually take a deeper look into our projects but to save time and
you know just to keep going on just take know that she has a client
from a red bull that is a huge client and that just shows how well thought-out
this portfolio is how strong this kind of failure can actually work out for
your career and now heading down to the bottom of
her portfolio design we've got social media contacts and also the color scheme
continues throughout of course because it should do but finally one thing I
really really love about what Melanie's done here is that she's added some humor
she said at her logo her own original illustration in a kind of humorous way
you know the high five in the broken hand and this is really really really
awesome and it leaves the person who's viewing the portfolio with a sense of
happiness the sense of you know just that was some light-hearted humor this
is a really clever already thought-out portfolio design so you should be taking
some notes guys but anyway let's move on to the second portfolio in today's video
so here we have a graphic design portfolio by Jack Porsche let's say a
web developer but it still stands the same you know still a portfolio for some
kind of design work and the first thing that I've noticed on his landing pages
he's used some really well asymmetrical balance where he's got his typography on
the left you've just kind of smaller but his logo is larger on the right this
ties back to the theory that I've always spoken about my channel of you know
graphic design theories of balance and contrast and so forth these things do
work and English stick in the mind so are people who are viewing the actual
content also what I love is that when you hover over Jack's text and it's got
some coded effects in it which is really really neat I'm really
unique you want to try and be unique with your graphic example earlier - as
you can see on the left he's got his a toolbar his navigation bar and let's
just check out his skills and see how that pans out so again he's gone for his
color scheme here of a kind turquoise but here is you some contrast
using the header as the larger and more bold typeface for font and then below
he's got the more thin text you know this looks really neat and again there's
more balance because all that's on the left and on the right is what his skill
sets are so again this is really well-thought-out and Jack's done a
really great job here too I'm heading into Jack's work he's got a really
interesting way of doing things and that is he's got each of his projects in a
square kind of thumbnail and I personally I think it's okay but I do
like to have kind of gaps or space between each thumbnail for both thing is
done well his that is he's got some animations and roll over roll over
effects on his thumbnails and of course you need to have a contact page if you
want people to contact you for work on your graphic design portfolio and it's
continued with his color theme his font which again is more consistency you want
to keep the same fonts throughout the entire portfolio and the final thing I
want to say about the actual portfolio side of things and gaining clients and
what not I've said it before but that is you need to advertise you need to
promote yourself you need to take into account everything I say about
portfolios within graphic design because you need to get a right to get the
clients you know you need to promote yourself you need to make sure the
content is great you need to bring theme you need to make sure everything is tied
together so neatly and so well done you can have some really decent work but if
your portfolio sucks it isn't really gonna get you anywhere
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