so welcome back to my channel everybody and today I'm actually critiquing your
guys's work because I asked you to send me your portfolio's and I did have a
really interesting and a really fun time looking through your projects and how
you go about presenting yourself as a graphic designer
now I didn't get a whole lot of entry so don't be disappointed if you don't see
your work in today's video and also the very inner plays video I do have the
announcement of the winners for the logo design contest that I launched a couple
of weeks back but the first portfolio of work is a great example of how to keep a
running consistent theme throughout the entire body of work within a portfolio
so the first portfolio that were looking at today is by Peter maverick and right
off the bat I want you to take note of these two colors right in the top left
here this yellow and this kind of charcoal kind of black now peter has
done something that I've spoken about on my channel many many times and that is
he's used a running theme throughout his entire body of work now quickly before
we get into this portfolio I want to emphasize how important it is to
concentrate on how you actually display your work you need to treat your
portfolio as a project in itself and a piece of odds of course the work you put
into it is important and like the quality of that work is crucial but how
you display and how you show that work is equally as important but yeah if we
toggle down here from the main landing page on your screen you've got a little
bit about Peter here and also we've got a nice the navigation bar at the top and
again it's utilizing those colors that we spoke about another neat little
feature he's got here is how many projects he's worked on and kind of like
you know humorous things here and this again just gives some intrigue and a
uniqueness to his portfolio of work you've got credentials and his skills
and you know a nice interface here that's really really awesome again using
the same colors but if we go and look at his actual body of work you will notice
again he's still using the same color scheme for his body of work you don't
have to use a color scheme to create the running theme you can use style you know
typography but one easy way to do it is to use a color scheme
one thing I would say about this is that the actual image itself here isn't
hasn't rendered - well my screen is quite blurry but he's got a very nice
style you know line arts vector liner design and again he's got his social
media links here in the color scheme as well the only thing I have about this is
that I would just concentrate on the actual work being uploaded in a higher
kind of quality because it's a bit blurry on my screen but it is a very
very neat portfolio indeed and one interesting point is that this is his
own domain but he also sent to me his Behance profile which is based from my
website as you can see he still used the same color scheme here on his you know
the aesthetics of his Behance portfolio and one thing about behance is that is
very difficult to kind of control all of the aesthetics of the page itself as you
can see in his other website he has complete control over the interface from
start to finish but if we take a look at his 2019 body of work here he's still
gone with the grayscale on yellow which you know I like a lot and there was some
interesting and some neat designs here I give top marks to Peter for the layout
and the functionality of this website is really really awesome but he just needs
to maybe focus on the actual quality of the work that's uploaded the second
portfolio were looking at today is somebody who's been using dribble to
present their work as a graphic designer now the second portfolio in today's
video that we're going to look at before I reveal the winners of the logo design
competition is a drip will portfolio by Ashraf and there are two key components
of this portfolio that I really really do like and the first thing is he is
niched down these are all logo designs every single addition to his portfolio
is a logo design this essentially separates him from the designers who
like to cover their skills across a broad scope of graphic design if you
need down you're more likely to have clients coming to you because you are a
professional and an expert in a specific niche field it's very clever and a very
a proven way to get ahead in graphic design now the second thing I really do
like is that on most of these logo design thumbnails here look at how much
space the logo design takes up it's pretty much equal throughout apart from
maybe this one here but yet the good thing is the logo doesn't take up a huge
amount of space in one them nail and then a tinier space in the next one
this adds unity and it kind of allows the portfolio to flow evenly throughout
the entire screen now one thing I don't like about dribble is I know I know
dribbles pretty elite and you need an invitation to join it but one thing
about dribble is all you have is this here you can't extend downwards and you
can't customize and so forth so yeah a dribble is all well and good to have an
invitation for but as a means for actually promoting your work it's not
all that great in my opinion however he has got a website here which I'm gonna
give a click and let's have a little look at Ashraf's or websites he's got
some skills here and he's got some you know him background information on
himself and there's a nice roll of a function on his thumb nails which I do
like I'm not too sure about leaving a gap here this is just a pet peeve and
it's he kind of destroys the unity in the flow but if he travel down again
like he's got his logos in a nice evenly sized kind of display and I like this
line here you see this curved line as you go down it's repeated throughout the
entire portfolio this is another tiny detail that doesn't go unnoticed by you
know the trained eye and it does give consistency to his entire body of work
so yeah really good job Ashraf and I like your Lego designs for the most
parts and I think you're doing a good job for sure and the third entry today
is actually an Instagram portfolio which is really quite interesting and unique
so let's take a look so the third and the final portfolio in today's video is
actually an Instagram portfolio brought to you by veneer or Vania I'm
sorry if I am you know butchering your name there anyway this is a very
interesting portfolio because it's more towards digital art and photo
manipulation and it is quite difficult to make an Instagram portfolio you
actually stand out because you've only got three designers on a single row and
there's nothing else you can really modify but I want you to take notice of
the style of this work for example in the top three designs here they all kind
of based around a fantasy theme and the colours you use a very grayscale and
kind of bleak in nature and then down below here everything is based around a
kind of urban or dark theme which you know really ties together well and then
here we've got a focal point of an orangey kind of really vibrant design
with two pretty bleached out color designs either side I really find these
photo manipulation works you know really interesting really needs and they all do
have a similar style in nature so when you see this kind of portfolio you can
see how to work all ties together well I really would like to see your work in a
separate kind of portfolio website and there is actually a link here so I'm
gonna check this out real quick so yeah we've got the same similar work here and
I would like you to maybe expand on this and maybe use the resource we looked at
last week which is Adobe portfolio because I think you could take your work
to the next level by really constructing a neat
and an awesome portfolio for you great work and I really did enjoy viewing only
rework today guys I actually had over a hundred submissions for portfolios and
so of course I couldn't get through all of them and I probably am gonna make
future videos on this subject if you do want to see that here on my channel but
I also had over a hundred submissions for the logo design competition where
I'm gonna pick three winners right now so you can check
out all of the three winners and their portfolios of work that link down
inscription box below and the first winner is actually a good concept from
the letter S and a wine bottle which translated into a really contemporary
and a really simple and impacting logo design
I feel the logo type and the simplicity of the logo really does adhere to the
brief that I established at the start of the local design competition everything
is neat and everything is balanced on its Lego I really do like it
the second Lego is by nazar and again they've gone for a serif font which I
think does work but I really do like the logo symbol here because it's really
traditional it's really solidified in the kind of high-end high status sector
of wining we only hang up here is that there might be too much fine detail and
this might be lost when the logo is scaled down but I do really like this
logo design overall in terms of the colors you use the typography and also
just the general style the logos a hole now for the third and the final logo I
did have a really hard time choosing because I had about five or six logos in
mind for this last one so it did take a lot of time for me to choose but I
finally landed on this logo by George it's not really the style I had in mind
for the logo but once I've seen it on paper and on a bottle and there's just
something about its logo that works for me in terms of branding but yeah like I
said I had a hard choice choosing because there was lots and lots of
designs to look through and I find myself just you know focusing on small
details here and there yeah thanks to everybody who sent in their portfolios
of work and also the logo design entries I'm gonna hold another giveaway next
month or probably a drawing tablet so do make sure to stay tuned to my channel
for weekly graphic design content and also do let me know if you want to see
more videos where I actually critique your guys's work it was really fun doing
it and I think you can get a lot out of it to be of course until next time guys
make sure to have a great day and design your future today