Impressive single page portfolio websites

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 13 February, 2009 to the design and art subset

There’s some truly awesome web design featured among these single page portfolio websites.
It is almost like the single page frees the designer to create something more unique then a traditional multi page site. Perhaps it is because you only have to make it work on one page.

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We’re gonna make you scroll, one page portfolio sites

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 5 November, 2008 to the comment subset

An ironically rather long scrolling piece itself, Jason A. Tselentis dissects the one page layout design portfolio. Good idea? Bad idea?
And perhaps this is the problem we face today: search engines. Are web designers creating with search engines in mind? With so much emphasis being placed on Search Engine Optimization – getting top placement in [...]

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Strange Fruits

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 20 May, 2008 to the design and art subset

Strange Fruits
I was having a “web designers using Linkedin to promote themselves rather than a website portfolio, what fun is that?” exchange on Twitter last week, and now I stumble upon Strange Fruits at Design is Kinky this week.
Have you noticed how people don’t really highlight web design any more? Seems the interest is in [...]

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Portfolios That Accomplish Goals

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 24 March, 2008 to the design and art subset

Portfolios That Accomplish Goals
Kyle Meyer critiques some design portfolios, and offers a few pointers for making great work really stand out.
Last, but not least, Proud Creative. They’re damn proud of their work, how do I know? Because the rest of the portfolio is as minimal as possible. The fixed position left column is great for [...]

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Design You Trust™

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 20 February, 2008 to the design and art subset

Dmitry Utkin makes great use of WordPress and a three column theme layout, and the result is Design You Trust™.
Design You Trust™ is a daily design magazine, blog and small community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios, young design bloods, design articles, photography and hand-picked design stuff from all over [...]

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Creating The Perfect Portfolio

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 31 January, 2008 to the comment subset

Creating The Perfect Portfolio
Or how to make your online portfolio stand out from the other two thousand it is competing for attention with.
People with not much to do may enjoy exploring a portfolio and clicking on hard to find links to see tiny thumbnails of your work, but a busy potential employer will not. Make [...]

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Qube Konstrukt’s Consort

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 10 January, 2008 to the design and art subset

Qube Konstrukt’s Consort.
As seen at Lost At E Minor.
…it was with real excitement that I recently browsed their first self-published book – Consort – a portfolio of sorts that displays excerpts of work from their lengthening catalog of finely executed projects.

British designer John Walsh also recently published his portfolio in book format.

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Saturday 22 December 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 22 December, 2007 to the comment subset

The Hobbit Goes Hollywood: Peter Jackson will act as executive producer in the upcoming production of the movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic book, The Hobbit.
Bilbo Baggins is finally progressing on his most fraught journey – landing a leading role on the big screen. After three years of legal wrangling and public sniping, [...]

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Links for 18 October 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 October, 2007 to the disassociated subset

Web Directions North is on from 30 to 31 January 2008 in Vancouver, Canada, and Jeffrey Zeldman will deliver the opening key note speech. The WD team have also compiled an executive summary of the conference, should your boss need to be “convinced” your attendance is worthwhile!
Why Accessibility? Because It’s Our Job! “We should make [...]

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Links for 5 September 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 5 September, 2007 to the photography subset

Ali K. Photoblog: Ali Karagoz is a Turkish born computer science student now residing in Paris, who has quite the photographer’s eye. Spotted at coolstop the online aggregator of all things cool!
Shutterbug: as you may have guessed from the title, is also a collection of photos, belonging to Tracey, a Sydney web developer. Also check [...]

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