Sunday, July 12, 2009

Pretty In Ink


I've always had a fascination with all things printed. Record sleeves, t-shirts, posters and girly imags. At 15 I was designing and printing t-shirts of my favourite bands. Today I'm just as passionate about print. There's something special about being able to physically touch something you've designed, the texture on different mediums and seeing how it looks in different light. Sure, it sounds fruity I know, but that's what drives me to create the best in print.

When I'm not working

I'll be honest here, I love computers and the internet. I spend a good portion of my day in front of the screen, designing, researching and sometimes just mucking about. Ever since I was 11 and I was given an playstation 2 gaming machine.


i love these game



I've been glued to the screen. Tomb Raider ,Tekken 3,WWE Smackdown vs. Raw: Superstar Series,Dick Smith VZ-200 > Commodore 64 > various Amiga's >Evil Dead various PCs (Windows) > . Oh mighty playstation Pro, how I fancy thee.


But, aside from the geek stuff I do allow myself to get out and about too. I like walking around, exploring and taking photos. I'm definitely just an enthusiast photographer as you can see from my photos on Flickr. Music, hanging out with my mates, drinking and eating, watching movies, learning english and traveling pretty much sums up the remainder of my time.

Awesomely Simple

I call myself a graphic designer first and foremost, if only to impress the girls, yet I have skills and passions in many areas of computing, internet, programming, design, usability and troubleshooting. Okay, I lied a little. I'm not passionate about troubleshooting but I seem to have a mind that's tuned to that sort of thing. The bit about impressing girls is true though. It happened once.

I have been called a pragmatist and while that might sound boring, I like to make all my designs as simple, practical and logical as possible and if I manage to make them look great too then I feel I've succeeded. I'm really not a 'wow' kinda guy, but I do create stuff that works nicely and looks good. To quote Charles Mingus, Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Graphic Design Portfolio Resources

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Some Great One Page Graphic Design Portfolio





I hope you found this post helpful and informative and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to post them as comments!

Graphic Design Portfolio Guide

I have been doing extensive research on portfolio sites lately and what I’ve noticed and I’m sure a lot of you have noticed is the growing popularity of one page portfolio websites. I know some of you might be “anti trends”, but I think this portfolio website format is great for several reasons and I will give you tips on how to create your own one page graphic design portfolio and how you can market it for free.

I even use this one page portfolio format for my own graphic design portfolio, because I believe it works well!