Howdy yall

Yesterday I was invited to New Egypt Speedway by the family and team of the racer that I recently designed a vehicle wrap for. I did a wrap for his sprint car which turned out pretty sweet, and it can be seen HERE. They were very pleased with the end result, too bad on that opening night, the quarter panel ended up being completely smashed in the race. Oh well..., like they say, rubbing is racing. Speaking of one-liners, while I was at the track, it gave me the perfect opportunity to try out some Talladega Nights one-liners on the folk at the track. They didn't respond too well to my redneck vernacular, must've been because I was a city slicker. All in all, it was a pretty good experience.

logo

color comp

my comp hasn't changed since the last layout i posted, it's a black and white scheme, like www.shinybinary.com with the images of my work as the only color. I have added the set of images I'd like to display for my portfolio on a flickr set available here. I should have the html files ready for use today.

portfolio design specs

Fonts: AG Stencil and Arial

Colors: black, white, orange, grey

thisisit

Here's my idea for my portfolio site, basically all the type faces and the color scheme below will be used. I modeled my resume which i will post as well after these and I think they fit well.

I'd like to link the blog page with my blog at www.blackpixi.com

and under contacts have various popular social networking links to my profiles as well.

I think a thumbnail image of my face would be cool, or it might frighten people away, I don't know, I need input on this.

5 Concepts

This is original vector art i created to go off of a blackpixi mascot or icon. I was thinking of having it on a homepage and flash animated, you can rollover and click on different parts of the face and interact with it, then you get taken into a site like gomedia's which houses my portfolio.
I've said it a lot and shared it in class, but I really like the in your face look of many professional portfolio sites, ones that showcase the work first, then the artist second.

1. For my first concept, I'd like to do a full showcase of all of my portfolio pieces in a manner like
gomedia.us does. List format, top to bottom, easy to see, and the contact information is there, but not as large as the work itself.

2. HERE I like this guys site a lot, it has information for every piece, it's clean, utilizes basic code, html/css so there's nothing to worry about flash working or not working with an employers browser/computer.

3. A popular concept, *I don't know if this is really a concept* but it's to include a wordpress blog/portfolio in one. It's tricky, and must be done cleanly to be pulled off as not overwhelming, but I think it'd be a good idea if done right. Would show an employer that you're current.

4. HERE A slideshow that displays just my work. A cool flash application, like Dave Hill

5. Michael Muller HERE He does a lot of portrait photography and portrait manipulations, thats just what i do to.

what my Portfolio shall include...................

My digital portfolio NEEDS the following:

1. Contact Information (Phone, E-mail, website, address, etc.)

2. A resume that reflects my qualifications, experience, schooling and all the formal crudentials like most consecutive beer pong wins.

3. I'd most likely like to include a short biography of interests and background information. Something that gives my hobbies, interests, some freelance jobs I've been involved with.

4. A portfolio of my digital work, in the following categories:

a. Logos
b. Print work/Typography
c. User Interfaces
d. digital images
e. photographs/portraits