When it comes to online graphic design portfolios, there are a lot of factors you need to consider. It can be easy to make costly mistakes that lose you the client before they’ve even sent an email. So what is it that creates that necessary appeal? In this short post I feature common portfolio mistakes, and offer some excellent resources.
A few weeks back I asked if there were any questions you’d like me to answer, and addressed them in a your questions answered blog post. You kindly asked additional questions, so here we go with three more.
If there’s one logo design book I’d recommend above all others, I’m hard pressed to name a better candidate than Marks of Excellence: the history and taxonomy of trademarks, by Per Mollerup. Here’s a glimpse of what to expect inside.
When you’ve been publishing blog articles for a while, it can be very easy to forget that many visitors to your website are arriving for the first time. They may not be familiar with your site navigation and how to make the most of the time spent on your blog. That’s why it’s a good idea to offer signposts every now and again, to aid deeper navigation. Here I show how.
I was approached by Maki, author of the popular Dosh Dosh website, back in February of this year. He asked if I’d like to work with him on his new logo design, and as I’ve been a fan of his articles for some time, I was more than happy to agree. Here I display the logo design process for one of the most popular marketing blogs around.