Sunday 1 April 2007

MySpace Research















www.myspace.com/lalygraphics


This myspace is an online portfolio for a graphic designer. This is only part on their of their porfolio as she also has a website portfolio. I found this myspace relevant to my work as both mine and this myspace will be an online portfolio for graphics work.

In this myspace she has kept the original myspace template but changed the colour sceem and added background images to make the page lok alot more appealing. I really like the simple look and colour sceem on this page. She has kept the colour seem of the page to two colours green and white.

















To show of her work she has taken full advantage f the photo gallary in myspace. She has a full page of illustrations and graphics she has produced and they are all very welll produced. Also to show off her work well she has added alot of graphics to the main page of the profile. All down the left hand side of the profile she has her gr
aphics, this all looks very neat and tdy but at the same time is good ecause people dont have to go into her gallery to view her work.



















The only thing i have noticed that could have been improved is the border around the grapics that are on display. The border has rounded edges and this means when saved as an image there are little white areas around the edges of the image. This could have been solved by the setting the background colour behind the graphics to the samecolour as the bacjground of the profile.


























David Hampshire Graphic Design
http://www.myspace.com/creativedesigner

This is a myspace page that is being used as a portfolio for a graphic designer. I like the way that he has layed out his work and also his interests and skills. He used the general infomation box down the left hand side very well to show case his skills and strengths. This is all very well put forward in different paragraphs explaining his diffrent strengths in different areas from illustration to print.






















Once again like the other profile above he has used the profile to add images on the page so that they are not all just with in the pictures area. I feel this is good because as soon as people view your page they will see the standard of your work with out having to click through your images.

He has used the About me section very well to sell himself with some well written paragraphs about his interests and hobbies. He has written this well to really sell himself but he has kept it at a nice length. This means people will get a good idea of his interests and background with out getting bored of reading loads and loads of information before they have even seen his work.






















Once you get inside his pictures area I think he could have improved this by simply naming the albums better and adding a highlight photo for the albums. The main album is just called my photos which could have been called my work or something. I feel this because there isn't actual many photos inside the album it is more of illustration than photographs.













The only real thing i don't like about the main profile page is the choose of font colour and also the borders around the different sections. He has used a red font and double lined blue lines, I feel these colours don't go together very well and also don't go with the rest of the page. I think for a graphic design portfolio this doesn't look very good and could have easily been improved.

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