This week I began with finalising which categories of work I work I should be showing within my portfolio as well as creating the icons to reflect the category of choice.
Menu comparisson between Stage 3 & Stage 4
As you can see from the image (above left), I had the text within the menu centred. This left it looking quite plain and bland, I tried aligning the text to the left as well as the right to see if anything came of it – but nada. So I decided to borrow a concept which I had seen on another artist’s online portfolio where they used icons next to the text to give it some life. So as you can see from the image (above right) I decided to create small icons and place thumbnails of each of them next to the text within the menu. I made sure to create icons which will reflect the type of category they will be placed besides, this way I will be able to keep some sort of relation between each of them and have harmony between the two types.
Icons created for the menu
After this I began working on the layout of the main contents of each page. I wanted to give the viewer a sufficient amount of text that will keep them interested in the whole page but not so much that they will lose focus on it and move on. I also spent a little time on which font to use because the last thing I wanted to use was an unreadable font or that is very clichéd, e.g. Times New Roman. As you can see from the image below, I’ve settled on the Eurostyle font have just begun creating the boxes for the thumbnails. I’ve yet to create the images for the thumbnails so for the time being they will be occupied by numbers. I’ll need to think carefully what the content of each page should be and try and cut it down to the minimal in order to maintain the viewer’s attention on my pieces of work rather than the text.
Stage 4. How the portfolio currently looks
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