Thursday, April 28, 2011

Forming an Aesthetic

I've finally settled on a direction I'm heading with in my portfolio. I feel that it represents my style perfectly; it focuses heavily on typography, quirky imagery, and creative wording, while still maintaining a lot of breathing room through usage of white space.

I'm treating my portfolio like a neutral gallery wall. On the pages that showcase my work, the design will be extremely minimal so as not to compete with my pieces. But I'm allowing myself to experiment with the pages in between.

Octopi and centipedes may or may not be implemented. (You'll see what I mean.)

In the meantime, I'm still formulating an artist statement. I have placeholder Lorem Ipsum text in the layout at this point.

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