i asked you guys to send me your portfolios and that's exactly what you did i'm going
to dive into your subscriber portfolios to see what interesting graphic design goodness
can be found deep inside see if you agree with my critique and you might
just possibly maybe take away some helpful tips from today's video about your very own portfolio
so here's the first portfolio and this is a good start to the video in my opinion
one thing that will definitely make your portfolio stand out is to have small animated elements
strewn throughout the entire website an example here is this logo glitching around every now and
then this person has designed the homepage in a very simple way and a very simple layout which
is a great move the easier it is for someone to navigate your portfolio the better and later we're
going to see some examples that didn't really get that part right anyway this designer has
also added a section where you can get a specific quotation for their services and that's a really
cool useful feature it's something that i haven't got on my website and i might implement that later
but when we go into one of these projects what are we actually looking for here what are we going to
critique well we want the designer to tell us a story to explain their work and to display the
designs in real life use i like how they started off with the design here and as we scroll down
everything just flows neatly i also like how they've added english here alongside their native
spanish but i would personally line the text to the left instead of centrally speaking and that's
just a personal preference of mine notice how the background stays the same but they've added in
design elements as we scroll down and i love the simplicity and the neatness of this presentation
the project was explained at the starts and it's been presented really really well
the only thing that i might add is to explain some of the choices a little bit such as the kind
of scheme typography and so on also at the very end i don't like how the image of the product in
real use has been placed almost randomly i would like to see it integrated into the presentation
and also in a high quality resolution this one's looking pretty grainy but you're looking at his
about page everything is simple and clean again which is great the portfolio has its
stamp of uniqueness on it and overall it's just a great example of how to do things
next up we have a logo portfolio by kieran now what do i think this designer has done well
obviously i do dig and like the simplicity of this website it's very clean and it's laid out
in an easy to navigate manner he uses the color scheme of white charcoal black and
red which does work really well the designs themselves are not bad they're pretty good
but i'd love to see some context about each project if i'm a potential client looking
for a logo designer i would like to see the process some information on past clients to
see if they align with my business and just things like that the vector work is good
but i really want to see some presentation of how the design was thought up and also created
his about page is again very simple and it's laid out nicely but personally i would choose
say five to six of the strongest designs and then build a presentation around each of those designs
this logo portfolio could just be a page on his portfolio in like a quick glance at other
projects but i think it would be best to build up case studies around some of his best works but
yeah that's just my opinion let me know what you think down below this next portfolio is by dagmar
margaret and right away i'm noticing this font choice is really tech inspired and it feels kind
of like a programmer style font i like the way her portfolio picture is seen here taped up it kind of
gives a unique vibe that's carried throughout the entire portfolio and as you can see here
that font is used again alongside some hierarchy which is always good to see extra points for that
and this is a really novel idea seen here we have a showreel of the best work and i cannot wait to
take a closer look at this project the orange and black gaming project it does look really dope but
yeah a short video showcasing her best work on the home page it's a great idea in my honest opinion
so below we can see certain projects displayed and again the same font is used for consistency
but let's take a look at that project that caught my eye in the video above as you can
see she's kept that black background layout the same along with the font style and presentation
i do love this work here and the animated presentation involved with it it's truly awesome
stuff and here we can see the fonts the color scheme the media assets all displayed wonderfully
a lot of thought has gone into this and it's paid off really well the only small issue i have
is that instead of having four to five scattered designs on a thumbnail i would have just one
design for the thumbnail as a whole you know the project thumbnails here having a contact page is
essential for converting viewers into buyers and make sure it's simple and easy to use just
like this one here and of course at the bottom we have a social networks and a cool animated graphic
but yeah i really like this portfolio it's great stuff next up is a portfolio by axel now what do
you notice immediately with this one here green black and white try and think about color scheme
when you're designing your portfolio or at least just a style this portfolio is what i would call a
scroller where we continue to scroll down and down and down from the home page which is something i'm
not a fan of and i'll explain that later that being said everything is laid out pretty neatly
here we have an introduction to the designer the skills and services on offer and yes there is a
quick navigation bar on the right found here again i would personally align all text to the left
has my personal preference we continued to scroll down and we met with the projects right here
axel is obviously involved in a lot of different areas of graphic design which is pretty cool
and if we head back to the top we can see there is a project
drop down menu and let's check out the foodie project because i'm a major foodie myself
axel has done a splendid job when coming into the project he shows the tools used
the color palette the font choice along with the synopsis into the project itself and as you can
see it's all laid out really neatly and in a stylish manner the execution is just awesome
he even talks about the target market in his portfolio and has deeds on the kind of person
who interacts with the brand the level of detail here is just really really amazing but coming back
to the main issue that i have with this portfolio and that is the navigation i personally don't like
how the home page is laid out in a way that you just scroll down and down and down where projects
are just kind of simply and randomly placed in an odd fashion at the bottom i think things should be
simplified and made more neat in this respect only so the viewer navigates the work easily
it just looks more professional when things are laid out simply and neatly
i think in this instance it's just a case of refining things and laying them out in specific
orders with their respective pages the actual projects on this website are top-notch though
and there's been a lot of thought and care put into this portfolio website if you haven't seen
your portfolio in today's video it doesn't mean that your work is good or bad it just means i
decided to speak on these ones and i will do this again in the future so don't worry
you can post your portfolios in the next video if you want to see more graphic design content
by myself do click the video on screen until next time guys design your fridge today peace
you