each of the people on screen use a sneaky trick in their portfolios to gain or to
maintain a legendary status as a designer even though sadly one of the designers today has
actually departed this world 25 years ago yes his work is still considered by many to be some
of the best ever and let's start with trick number one with our deceased design Legend
Paul rant R.I.P now I'm going to quickly ask you to do something that will fully help you
appreciate this trick and how it works so here's the home page of Paul rand's
portfolio website take a long look and absorb the content that lies before your very eyes
okay now so close your eyes and tell yourself what are some of the first things you remember all that
spring to mind about the website you just looked at and don't worry I'll give you a few seconds
sorry if some of the things that came to your mind were red black and white then the first trick has
actually been achieved perfectly that is really helpful and clever trick has two main reasons why
you can use it on your portfolio if you actually navigate through Paul Ryan's website you'll notice
that the color scheme has been used literally everywhere and this makes the entire website
feel professional and well put together which it is of course I mean it's Paul Rand right so yeah
it's going to be good even the loading icon in his Infamous classes has that white to red and
black color scheme used so yeah that's the first reason but there is actually a different level
to this genius when it comes to using this trick on a portfolio website now notice how black has
been used as the background color this is not only really easy on the eyes actually prevents
your retinas from being burnt out but it also allows the work on the website to be the focal
point as it stands out on a dark background if you can maintain a strong color scheme on your
portfolio it will literally make potential clients feel like you are a designer who knows
what they're doing which I don't doubt you do because you watch this channel of course so yeah
one crucial part of having a portfolio website is actually the web hosting without web hosting your
portfolio will be essentially homeless and it'll be left out in a cold alone and hungry okay yeah
that metaphor got kind of out of control and a bit exaggerated but hosting or good hosting is really
essential hostinger is a whole lot more than just web hosting it's an awesome all-in-one service
that has literally everything you need to build and run your portfolio website as you can see
it's basically next to nothing already it's not going to break the bank but with my handy dandy
discount code you can actually get 10 off which was soon gonna use but hey let's quickly take a
look at what we get with the most cost effective option so we can actually add up to 100 websites
we have some nice large storage options and here's one really cool up shot a free domain
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always good a free email account so you can have new clients swamping you with new work and then
the biggest perk in my honest opinion and that is the WordPress optimization that actually hosting
of brings once you've decided on your chosen plan scroll down and just a touch and here's what we
can use that delectable discount code so Satori Graphics all in uppercase and bingo then it's
just a case of completing a few quick steps to personalize your experience and goals with hosting
it but hey what about that free domain that's right here it would possibly be a good idea to
use your own name for a portfolio or even just a business name if you have one just give a quick
search and see if it's actually available and.com is always going to be the most sought after TLD
so once you've got your domain name you can actually build a website straight from hosting
here with their web Builder or you could use WordPress they have some really neat templates
for portfolios or you can just do what I've done multiple times with hosting it and that is usually
WordPress option it's really seamless and easy to do Straight from here so yeah make sure you
head over to hostinger.com forward slash Satori graphics and use that discount code of Satori
Graphics all in uppercase now let's carry on with some of these portfolio tricks and really get
these clients from our portfolio so for the next portfolio trick I'd like you to meet Jessica Walsh
and here's the portfolio landing page I mean right out of the gates it's an interesting and
cool experience right but we're not here for coolness in this actual instance we're going
to look at something that's quite specific and we'll actually get new clients from your
portfolio let's click into the bombas project and then on the info at the top let's expand
the things more so we can have a deeper look at things if we read through this it talks about how
bombus is Latin for B and how the brand design wanting to incorporate hexagonal shapes that
resemble a beehive it also goes into a backstory that further enforces their concept creation and
here is where that trick comes into play very nicely indeed everything they spoke about and
their story their Concepts and their logic it's all perfectly carried out in the execution of
the brand design itself in one single portfolio Edition they have mentioned the problem their
solution and then visually shown how the solution looks and why it works any potential clients who
see this they will just have 100 confidence in this design agency and they're likely going to
be quick on the phone or the keyboard to email them for a new project storytelling really does
sell especially when it kind of solves a problem at the same time so remember to identify a problem
in your portfolio Your solution to that problem and then how it looks and feels the other end
simple Yes effective sure but many people actually fail to make use of this in a portfolio the third
legendary trickster in today's video is Alex treshoots now here's the guy's homepage and
when I land on this I instantly realized I thought this is something special and it needs to be shown
in this video now you see on his landing page he does a few things that are truly awesome
now if we scroll down over his projects notice how the left Edge doesn't scroll as fast compared to
the right and it just looks so smooth when we actually scroll through it but yeah why should
I care about that I hear you cry the thing is here is that I've never personally seen anything
like this before and also below each project thumbnail we see colorful tags that tell us
what kind of work it is so for example Vector personal 3D and so on this entire portfolio
has animations and touches that really make it unique if you can craft a portfolio that
has something that sticks in the mind of a viewer for all of the right reasons they're
more likely to remember it thereafter but if you really want to hone in on graphic design
portfolios click that video on screen and until next time guys design your future today peace
thank you