Portfolio Web Design Comp

The assignment was to come up with a design of a portfolio web site, one that you would like to create in order to showcase your work (sort of like what I’m doing here on Word Press but my own design). In thinking about how I would like to set up my site I decided to break it down into a home page and three inner pages, photography, graphic design, and web design.

Like a lot of things I design or create, I wanted to go for a more simple lay out. I wanted something simple but striking and interesting. I thought about how I would like to make it appear as if the photos were on a black glossy stage with their reflections shining to give that feel of depth. I knew I’ve seen a site or something that did something similar but could not remember for the life of me…then it hit me, iTunes. The iTunes view “Cover Flow” looks very similar. I decided to continue with the look anyway and to add a few tweaks that I thought would give it a little better look.

In class periods prior our professor expressed how he was going to be getting more picky about how things lined up with each other and how we established a sense of order within our design comps so I made sure to pay a lot of attention to these types of details. I used lots and lots of grid lines to keep things in line and evenly spaced.

My first inner page I handed in for our first review of our design I had a closer concept to the Cover Flow view in iTunes with regards to how it has an almost circular scrolling or revolving feel but that idea was discouraged because of the difficulty. Our professor wanted our designs to actually be feasible for us to create on our own. So this Photography Page is the result of the simplification of the page.

Hopefully sometime in the future I will have a site that looks like this: