Hey i really need help i am not able to get a job from 1 year i am so tired apply everywhere, is there something wrong with portfolio, i am so done right now please help me
My Portfolio
Here are my thoughts:
I don’t know what it’s like in Italy, so you’ll have to take my comments with a grain of salt. In the U.S., there are more designers than open positions. So it might take some time to land a job in the field. It’s just a sad fact of life.
You don’t show any UI/UX samples. This will limit you to branding and print work. What is the job market like in Italy for designers without UI/UX experience?
I think you have strong work samples. They are stronger than I was expecting based on your post. The problem is that you don’t have much. You really only have four samples (Exurban, Giraffa, Audi, and Catalogo). I would expect to see more than that.
A couple of the work samples could be improved. If I just look at the cover of the catalog sample, I’d have no idea at all what the company sold or what sort of products were featured in the catalog.
On the Exurban ad / out-of-home, it looks cool at first glance, but there is no messaging or marketing. If someone walks past this on the street, what does it convey? What’s the takeaway? What action do you want them to take?
One of the big problems is that the design of the portfolio itself is not as strong as the work samples shown. Here are the issues I see:
- It could have its place in certain designs, but I think the Copperplate font looks a bit dated in this application. And why are certain characters flipped on the title page?
- I’m assuming you are trying to mimic neon with the white lines, script font, and glow; but I am not a fan of the effect.
- The layout of the resume page needs to be tightened up.
- For the “Lavori” title page, you combine a script face with Copperplate. Then you switch to the script face and Myriad (or something similar) for the Mockup title page. Why is the Lavori title page in Italian and the Mockup title page in English? Be consistent.
- On the Audio and Catalogo pages you have nice looking gray tabs, but you don’t use them anywhere else.
- You have a page with details about the Exurban page, but you don’t have a page with details about anything else. And you introduce yellow for the headlines here. Again, be consistent.
Bottom line, the presentation of the work needs work. Don’t overdo it to the point that the work samples become buried or hard to see. The work samples are easy to see and evaluate right now; that’s a good thing. But you do need to do a better job with the overall portfolio design.
Hi steve!, thanku so much for replying i thought i Will get no reply, the reason for front page characters up side downs cause i thought they look aesthetic i was just 18 at that point and neon affects have really lost the charm…
And here everyone thinks ui/ux is just different job then graphic designer, but i will add something thanks
Lavori is in Italian and mock-up is also in Italian its not English, we call it mock-up also in Italian,
My goal was trying to make portfolio more aesthetic than explaining every project, but if you think its better to explain project then i will do it more better, and the reason few have explanations (exurban) cause i was forced by my teacher he told me to do it.
And you think i should use one theme to explain and for portfolio designs? I thought it would be cool to use different aesthetics based on different projects
I never really thought the way you think thanku, my teacher just said to me it looks so good, so that’s why i didn’t have this insights, and i deleted few Pages myself cause i thought they are unpleasant that’s why I didn’t t add much
You’re only as good as your weakest work sample. So it is good that you deleted a few pages on your own. A good way to add projects to your portfolio would be to go back and re-design the pieces that you deleted to make them stronger.
Good luck.
Sometimes I have trouble putting into words what my intuition tells me, but your comment above hints at it.
The portfolio is the container into which your work is placed. It should not overpower the work. The portfolio container should look good, but it should be subordinate and subtly complementary to the work you’re showing. It should not compete with it.
The opening page, for example, is too decorative. The upside-down R and F serve no purpose other than gratuitous decoration. I could say the same about the glow effect and the diagonal lines in your resume page. I’m not saying there’s no room for purely aesthetic elements. Instead, I’m saying that there’s a point at which they overpower and compete with the purpose of your portfolio, which is to show your work.
In a sense, this amounts to a hierarchy problem that a good art director would recognize. In other words, you’ve emphasized the wrong things — the portfolio case instead of the work that’s inside it.
This brings me to what I see as the second big problem: the scarcity of your work. As @Steve_O mentioned, you have only four projects in your portfolio. Those projects are nice, and show ability and talent, but they aren’t enough.
You really should aim for 12 or 13 separate projects. Fewer than that doesn’t provide an adequate sample of your strengths and weaknesses. In addition, the scarcity will likely cause the following to cross an art director’s mind: (1. You’re a beginner with too little experience compared to the others who have applied for the job, or (2. You’ve removed everything else because you only feel you have four things that are good enough to show.
Solving this problem would really help, even if it means inventing and thinking through realistic design problems that aren’t for actual clients, but that demonstrate your ability to conceptualize, strategize, and execute a great solution for a typical, real-world design problem.
You can do this. You’ve demonstrated your ability, even if it’s rather scarce and shown within an overdesign portfolio case.
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Oh ok
-fix theme should match all project’s, be consistent with theme and don’t go more on front page, and what do you think rather than adding 13-14 projects, what about choosing 3-5 project add more suff on them like every single project should have more explanation and story time,? Should i implement this?
Thanks
Hi your portfolio is good but too much aesthetics is making the details very difficult to read and understand. You can keep your profesional clean and simple and show the works that you have done as it is.
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