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Online Portfolios

Posted by: opendoordesign | November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments |

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Design students need an online portfolio, and I recommend a great free resource called Carbonmade. Technology Goddess Audrey Williams turned me on to this online community of designers, illustrators, photographers and other creatives based around portfolios. Carbonmade offers an attractive, clean slide show interface that uses JPEGs. Easy for anybody with basic graphic computer skills to create. Pellissippi design student Mellissa Dos Santos has just set up her portfolio. And, here’s a link to mine.

My Design I students are presenting their online portfolios as their final exam. I’d suggest that students set up a free account, use Photoshop to JPEG their PDFs, and start uploading their portfolio samples before exam week. Remember: the early bird ends up owning the worm farm.

Update: Check out the student portfolios below and leave a comment by clicking on the comments link.

Kitty Garland
Mark Friebus
Anastasia Williams
Cordelia Norris

under: Design beyond school, My portfolio, Resources

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This was really easy to do – if you already have your files in jpg format it takes literally only 20 or 30 minutes to set the whole thing up. Now just out of habit when I finish a project I make myself a jpg file of each thing in case I want to post it later. Thanks to Todd for letting us in on this great portfolio FREE tool!

A s a follow-up to the whole carbonmade server blow-up (in which carbonmade lost all of the accounts created on their site in mid November through December of 2007):

I spent a bit of time making a new online portfolio on coroflot (www.coroflot.com/Cordelia). On the plus side, Coroflot’s site has more features, such as tracking visitors to your portfolios, and the number of hits that each image receives. And they also post some very sweet design jobs, although apparently no employer in the entire state of TN uses this feature.

On the down side, though, the coroflot site feels a bit cold and clinical. I think the carbonmade portfolios look better, simply because of the interface (the thumbs are larger and everything looks better on a black background). So I’m keeping my coroflot portfolio but am rolling the dice and recreated my carbonmade portfolio too.

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