Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Assembling and Producing a Spastic Portfolio

Hello all,

Through out my four years at Quinnipiac I created a truly diverse collection of works in studio art, digital design, media production, outside work/internships and independent projects. Before I set about the creating and publishing my portfolio to the web I carefully thought over what would best represent my work. At first I set out to create a sleek but simplistic site as a means of easily showing my work to potential employers.

Next I created a site that I thought would represent my artistic design elements. I found myself trying to fit my website into the constraints of artistic design. Feeling a overwhelming sense of frustration I went back to the raw material of my portfolio and set out to create a third website. Through a process of mind mapping, creating wire frames and sketching I managed to organize my website into a third and final iteration (a this point). My third website is easily navigable and represents my artistic style in better way than the other two website truly could not.

I certainly found the two sections, "Creating Interactive Portfolios and Websites" and "Motion Graphics and Broadcast Design Portfolios" in "Building Design Portfolios" very helpful. I set out to find a happy media between the work of Lucas Walker(Artistically Oriented) and Louise Fili (Design Oriented).

1 comment:

Tom Hammer said...

I love your portfolio collection and am using it for help with mine for this semester. I'm in your shoes now at Quinnipiac and I was wondering how I may contact you regarding my interest in the intern program for WWE. If you can, email me back with more details at
ThomasJhammer@gmail.com. I look forward to response!