In this video, sponsored by Envato Elements
I'm going to be going through the best portfolios on Behance for graphic design.
I love doing these types of videos, not because I just get
to sit here and look at amazing work.
But because I learn a lot as well. As designers we can sort
of have tunnel vision into what we should and shouldn't do.
We just focus on one thing too much that we forget that there
are so many other ideas out there.
So I'm going to go have a look, get some inspiration.
Let me know your thoughts and your favorite down in the comments below.
And as always, links to these are in the description for you
to go and check them out.
Okay, so graphic design the best work. What I'll probably do
First of all is going to branding.
That's my sort of realm,
that I love
And let's look at the first one.
Okay, so book store brand.
Again first of all, you are greeted with an amazing, flat lay image
of all the stationary.
I love that. If it's possible in your design portfolio to show
real work like that to a printed version, always do that.
Take the pictures that look the best with the real work.
I love the colors around it.
You know, you've got that wood vibe rustic, but also elegant.
and the logo...looks...I mean
Obviously, I think that's the slovakian or some sort of Eastern language.
But it looks amazing so far.
I love the fact that there's a horse inside of the logo.
It looks super clean, super clean.
The logo there's something special about this at all.
It's all to do with the stuff around it, and how it's all formed.
It's also do with the branding to do with the colors that they've used.
And the consistency throughout looks really nice and minimal.
And there's so many images of them that's so cool.
This next one looks kind of similar and it was featured as well.
Omini concept Boutique.
Okay.
So that's that looks sort of celtic to me
This is really cool.
I love the edginess of it.
That is really nice.
Not much I can say about this other than it fits super nicely.
You think it's going to be a clean design like the logo is
going to be super clean, but you can see that it's not
actually that clean, but it works really well.
Again, a perfect example of best use case scenario.
This one's taking my eye here.
So I'm guessing this is the coffee one.
It is a coffee one.
First of all, love the design.
It's like the coffee version of monster, really clean and nice,
The red....I'm not too sure that signifies but it's cool.
Malasana is a 100% pure speciality coffee brand of the
best quality, which comes loaded with attitude, music and urban art.
A company by different playlists Spotify and stickers from various urban artists.
That is super cool.
I love it how it's been stamped on as well.
It gives it that extra vibe.
You can see that they've actually stamped this on to
the packaging was very unique, very simple and the way that
they got this logo to look so nice is not just by the design,
but everything else surrounding it.
It sort of selling the idea of the brand itself.
That red is such a stark contrast.
And I like that.
I'm not seen that in a while.
It's going for a very select market.
Let's look at more general graphic design and see what happens here.
This one looks interesting.
This is a brochure. That is so clever, that looks so different
to what I would ever expect.
You can see the writings on the inside.
I don't know if these are real or they're mock-up.
One thing that you're noticing out of every amazing design portfolio
especially ones that are featured on Behance
By Adobe on Behance, is that they have great mock-ups or great imagery.
Not just a great logo.
Look at the Logitech one here.
So that Logitech MX Keys
Got one of those here mini gift kit design project.
Okay, love the fact that it is really minimal love the box. That's plastic there.
I like it.
We've got MX Mini Keys mini or they've got a mini version.
I need to get one of those.
You see here everything is accompanied by the real use case scenario.
So it's actually these little calendar bit, little checklists.
All of these images make the design just look even better.
It's not not good enough anymore, just to have these designs in that.
Let's have a look at this one first Ocio or O-C-I-O brand card
brand strategy and creating meaningful brands for businesses of the future.
Let's have a look.
It's difficult to design anything for a user or a client
that you don't understand.
To facilitate the process of understanding is why we run an initial brand
strategy workshop, similar to what we do.
These brand cards were born to assist throughout this process
while conducting the workshop.
The aim is to transform an abstract idea of the brand think solid.
This is super clever.
Look at that.
It looks like cards against humanity that's merely thing.
Because if you used helvetica. Yeah, very cool.
I love all that that's really nice.
This one's caught my eye.
This is just like anti design though completely.
I love this.
This part, that's distorted.
Again this looks real to me.
I love these images, very monochromatic, black and white
completely anti design.
People love this.
It's more of a trend now, but people use it to be slightly edgy.
But I really do like it.
Works really well.
Not too sure what it's supposed to be for, I think it's just like
more artsy than anything.
But you can see look cool.
Well, you've noticed out of each one of these projects on
your portfolio is not only that the work is extremely good
it's amazing, but that they using assets to help sell the work.
If this cover was just a cover as a JPEG on Behance
It's not going to work as well as showing the content and
everything else around it, like these bits of paper. Playing around
with this transparent, distorted part, using mock-ups
using the colors and flat, laying everything out.
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access to your a studio where you can like take the
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This one here looks really cool.
It's just the yellow. Sort of neon yellow on everything.
$1 icons, Co-motion Studio.
Okay.
Accessible icons for all. So $1 icons was created to give
designers, developer students, marketers blah de blah de blah
quality, affordable icons.
Nice.
Okay First of all, love the logo.
Looks great.
You got the really minimal $1 in there.
I love the way that you showing them.
You see even mock-ups on this, you see. Oh, they are real. They might be
actually real the most likely.
Yeah, we see you've got the actual content here.
We can see how you've done it.
So you've shown the differences between you and other icon markers
and looked amazing.
You're selling this idea super well.
I love those colors.
That green that's similar to our brand color.
Well, the tertiary color that we use. That's absolutely crazy.
Blue is the new black. That looks different.
The type conference that's cool.
Why am I not that?
I love this typography check that it's got that haze to it,
Don't know how they done that. That's a really cool effect. It gives it that depth
That 3D depth. What's this one?
The Petal?
Oh, that reminds me so much of Meta, not in the nasty way.
And it's still a...Maybe I've missed out on the chance of
making a video on that.
If you want to hear about me, talk about Meta, the new logo for Facebook.
Let me know. Petal a new kind of credit card company
determined to take credit into the future.
It's designed to help people build credit and spend responsibly.
Okay, I love the design of the actual card.
The Visa is actually portray.
That's cool.
Check the mock-ups out guys.
See what I'm saying.
Even this that's cool as well.
Everything looks amazing.
So there you have it.
Those are the portfolio's that we're looking today.
Hopefully they inspired you as well.
They inspire me every time I look on them. Let me know what you think.
Which one was your favorite?
Which one would you go back to?
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