PORTFOLIO READY | Portfolio Layout Do’s and Don’ts

Content management systems and technical proficiency required

These all have social implications, they are platforms where users share/ like/ comment

WIX

TUMBLR

WORDPRESS

BEHANCE

 

To note that:

Instagram and Tumblr might allow immediate and continuous documentation e.g. updates, work – in -progress etc

Behance may appear a more professional platform but is still a social medium.

Wix, Cargo and Squarespace are more portfolio specific platforms, with fairly similiar features

PORTFOLIO READY | Typefaces

In order to create an online portfolio, it is always essential to look at typeface. I feel that typeface is a huge factor to a webpage and it really creates either a good or bad look to the page overall.

Looking through the ‘Laytheme’ website at the variety of different typefaces they provide, I cancelled it down to the few I liked and found aesthetically pleasing.

The two posters, were from an example layout of how web layouts.

FMP | Hassan Hajjaj

 

Born in Larache, Morocco, in 1961, Hassan Hajjaj left Morocco for London at an early age. Heavily influence by the club, hip-hop, and reggae scenes of London as well as by his North African heritage, Hajjaj is a self-taught and thoroughly versatile artist whose work includes portraiture, installation, performance, fashion, and interior design, including furniture made from recycled utilitarian objects from North Africa, such as upturned Coca-Cola crates as stools and aluminium cans turned into lamps.

Turning to photography in the late 80s, Hajjaj is a master portraitist, taking studio portraits of friends, musicians, and artists, as well as strangers from the streets of Marrakech, often wearing clothes designed by the artist. These colourful and engaging portraits combine the visual vocabulary of contemporary fashion photography and pop art, as well as the studio photography of African artist Malick Sidibe, in an intelligent commentary on the influences of tradition in the interpretations of high and low branding and the effects of global capitalism.

Extraordinary and out-of-the-box, Hassan Hajjaj’s studio’s portrait show a clash of cultures, art forms, and expressions of creativity.

PORTFOLIO READY | Research

Project Brief 3: Professional Presentation / Portfolio Ready

The final brief of this academic year and it’s one that will help prepare for after graduation, all focus on portfolio and professional presentation.

Throughout this project the brief consists of us to explore and make attempts at ways of presenting ourselves and your work in professional contexts. Also to consider how work best comes across in a range of situations. Using my skills as visual communicator (Illustrator) to render appropriate, professional looking presentations, that provides an audience with information and background regarding my work. In order to more efficiently communicate to others what excites me as well as what am I able to provide in a professional environment.

PROJECT BRIEF OBJECTIVES:

• To approach the presentation of your work as a problem to be solved, using the skills you are equipped with, in order to best come across to an audience both as a person, as well as a professional. To create a Physical Portfolio and online Portfolio and use social media to define and build your own personal networks.

FMP | African fashion

African fashion has always been a big part of iconic fashion.

Here are a few fashion brands that have used African print, which are also my favourite throughout researching for these fashion clothing lines.

MAISON CHATEAU ROUGE

The co-founder of the brand of MAISON CHATEAU ROUGE (Youssouf Fofana) has said that in making this clothing line it is an “opportunity to share his culture and his relationship with Africa”. Which is translated through fashion.

ÒKUN Beachwear

Òkun is a celebration of inspiration and design, quality, creativity and heritage, traversing the entire continent for the world beyond.

 

DE LA SÉBURE

JEKKAH

JEKKAH is the ethical brand born in The Gambia, based in London. Designing and producing African Inspired Streetwear in The Gambia.