Class:MFA Illustration 2019/Week 24
Last Week
- Check-in to see how you are all doing
- 1:1 Video Reviews of your self-promo projects
- New assignment: self-promo wildcard
This Week
- Review your design system/solution across all of your self-promotion projects
- Share your fourth and final self-promotion project
- Brief introduction to the website assignment
Open Questions
Notes
- Check out these handy portfolio site resources
- - 10 tips for building a killer portfolio website at creativebloq.com
- - Portfolio Website Tips From Top Studios at itsnicethat.com
- - Tips for creating a great portfolio website by Andrew Couldwell
- - 10 beautiful illustrator portfolios and why they work at creativebloq.com
Video Notes
Assignment
Your assignment for this week is to leverage the discussion from class and resources here on the wiki to locate and try a handful of online portfolio services over the next two weeks. We will review your progress every week as we close in on the best plan for each of you.
You should be trying multiple website options (Squarespace, Wix, Cargo, etc..) and/or many themes.
Few things to keep in mind:
- Do you need project galleries or lots of different images in a flat container?
- What are the most logical navigation and project list options for you?
- How well does your theme work on mobile?
- Does your website design match your personal identity (Logo, type, color and all)?
For next week your assignment is:
- Look at a handful of illustrators websites, take note of what you like and what you do not.
- If you have a website already, go look at it! What do you want to change? Does it look like the rest of your self-promotion work? Do you need to change the way you are curating or organizing your work?
- Begin to craft a plan for what you think will be ideal.
- Gather up a fresh set of images that loosely represent the type of work you will have on your website.
- Study up on Cargo Collective, Adobe Portfolio, Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, and Format. You can trial all of these for free before you make them actual live websites with real domains.
- Explore the themes available to you on all these services and try TWO different explorations.
Clarification: You can try two different themes on SquareSpace, you can try one theme on Cargo Collective and one theme on Wix (for example).
Each of the options above will let you explore/test a website design and generate a custom URL that you can share with others/me for review. Some of them will also generate a preview code or password for when you want to send it to somebody for review.
Then:
- Hand in your work for the week via this web form chop.is/2Je37RV
- Be prepared to show your two explorations in class next week.
