Judge my portfolio PLEASE
Hi! Guys can you please honestly check my portfolio and tell me if it's okay? a portfolio like this could get me a job? and it's okay to have my portfolio on Behance???
Also, all of those are fake projects, I don't have real ones to make a portfolio yet, and I'm loss rn, where do I find jobs as a designer?
Thanks in advance
Hi! I'm a graphic designer with around 9 years of experience and I recently got laid off, so I'm updating my portfolio and getting ready to apply for new roles.
I originally made this portfolio in 2024, so I have newer work that I still need to add. Before I get too far into updating everything, I'd really appreciate some honest feedback on the overall design, layout, how I present my work, and anything you think I should change or improve.
All of the graphics and illustrations in my portfolio were created by me with ZERO AI.
Portfolio: alianakadon.com
Any feedback would be really appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to look!
What is the easiest way to switch from Photoshop to Figma. Give me a tutorial that meant something to you.
Specifically, I do email design, exclusively in Photoshop, but clients are increasingly demanding that it be done in Figma. I have been working in Photoshop for 9 years.
Hey everyone! 👋
I was working on a portfolio project for myself. A brand identity design for a bakery🥐 and cafe☕ business named "RUTI" logo is inspired by dough to bread making process where the dough is usually round edged and soft looking and the color I got inspired from baked bread's brown color. After thinking about the brand strategy and direction and designing the logo design I kept playing with visuals and these are what I got.
Do let me know what do you feel about the project. Thank you!
#bakery_branding #branding #logo_design #food_branding
Here are two designs I made for the rarely seen 1973 BBC adaptation of A Little Princess.
The first was inspired by the poster for the film Midsomar. The second was a vintage retro inspired design.
Which do you like better?
And don’t forget to sign and share the petition to get this adaptation released to streaming:
Hi everyone, I’m trying to recreate the logo on the right from the original logo on the left.
The right one was AI-generated, but I want to learn how to do it myself properly as a vector.
Could anyone show me the steps or guide me on how to recreate this style in Illustrator? A step-by-step explanation would be really appreciated. Thanks!
I was asked to do live edits with my manager and other stakeholders in the company.
i’m doing more t-shirt and print design work and want to tighten up my workflow from the initial artwork through to the final file.
the main thing i care about is being able to create clean artwork, work with vectors when needed, and export files that are ready for actual production. different printers seem to have their own requirements, so having good control over the artwork and exports matters more to me than having a bunch of extra design features.
for people who do t-shirt or print work regularly, what software has worked well for you? especially interested in what you use when the artwork needs to go from design to a print-ready file without a lot of cleanup afterward.
I'm putting on a comedy show where I had to rent a venue, and also have to pay the comics out of the ticket sales. Do you think a fair price to have someone design the flyer should come from a percentage of what it cost me to rent the venue, or should it come from a percentage of the estimated amount of ticket revenue? The flyer would be tied into advertising for the show, so what's a good percentage of anticipated revenue do promotors typically spend on advertising, and what percentage of that should go to the creation of the flyer? Is it acceptable to make a deal to pay the designer a percentage of ticket sales on the back end, minus the other marketing fees like FB ads and printing physical flyers? I would rather support a local designer than generate something from AI, but it doesn't make sense for a flyer to eat up the majority of the budget for the show. What's reasonable?
I work around print and marketing projects, and I’m getting more jobs where the artwork needs to go straight from the design file into production. Getting the size right, checking colors, handling revisions, and exporting clean files can become a pain quickly. For people running print or sign shops, what part of the workflow usually causes the most trouble?
Coreldraw is one of the options I’m considering. The 1:1 scale setup and print-focused tools caught my attention, especially for large-format work. It also looks useful for in-house marketing teams handling everything from posters and signage to brochures and other printed materials.
I’m mainly looking for something that makes production faster and less annoying, not software with a huge feature list.
Hey everyone!
I'm a 15yo kid from Yemen who loves graphic design. I work on an old ThinkPad T540p (i5, 8GB RAM, SSD) running Linux.
Since I can't afford Adobe software, I use GIMP and Inkscape for everything. I really want to start freelancing to help myself out, build a portfolio, and hopefully save up for a better Laptop in the future.
Do you have any tips for a beginner using open-source tools? How can I get my first small client or make my portfolio look good without Adobe?
Thanks a lot!
I need some advice: I submitted my portfolio to two universities, and it was rated poorly by both. Could any graphic or multimedia designers share their portfolios so I can figure out what I’m doing wrong?
so i just left my job 5 months ago and i feel like it drained every creativity in my body since it’s my first job yet i’m the only one in the creative team.
i left because the salary is too low compared to the workload, and i also want to explore since i don’t think that i’m improving on that job.. i can’t improve either while working because i’m too busy at work so i just want to rest and think about nothing after that..
so my question is: how do you guys improve? how do you get inspiration?
it’s just that i feel empty and when i’m trying to make something, nothing is coming out..
This past week at 4:15pm before I left for vacation, I received AI critiques of an internal-facing document I made from the president of my company within 3 minutes of sending off my draft. All of it done within the enterprise form of Copilot. No filtering it or adjusting the clear AI jargon, straight copy/paste.
Don’t know what else to say other than it feels like a slap in the face to the effort I put in.
Am I reading too much into this? Do I just shut up and make the changes even if the AI response is confusing and ambiguous?
I've worked with many graphic designers (I'm in marketing but have done gfx design in my earlier career) and most, if not all, are brilliant. Except for two, in my entire career.
The good ones:
- I give them the copy, e.g. headline, subhead, CTA, the key elements (the product, for example), and they would decide what colours to go with, how best to arrange, different visual hierarchy, etc. Even as a layman, you know it's good. I usually approve these in one or at most two passes.
The bad ones - just a few examples:
- They always go back to the same old layout, colours, without much creativity. This isn't just about sticking to brand colours or guidelines, but their designs just look... boring and uninspiring. Things like: using the same font weight throughout (like is this a thing?) - be it headlines, subhead, eyebrow text, etc.
- We have a few designs where we're showcasing some digital projects that we've done. So think a mixture of mobile screens, laptops, etc. Intead of arranging them nicely, e.g. have the mobile phones in front of the laptop etc, they decided to arrange 2 mobile phones and 3 laptops side by side, in a row.
- I was reading up on proximity principle where you want to relate items through the right placement. One principle is you align all elements, e.g. logo and headline to the same side. Instead, what I got in return is: logo aligned to the left, and headline aligned to the right.
Like I'd love to approve design as quick as I can, but instead I'm wasting time telling the designer I work with to: move things 10 pixel to the right, bold this not that. It's almost as if it's better if I just do the design myself.
At this point, I don't know if I'm the crazy one?
These aren't regular halftones, these seem to be different than just a regular halftone option you can find on any software. I've seen similar patterns be used for movie posters, and other promotional items. Anyone know where to find a halftone pattern like this?
Hi everyone,
I've been working as a Visual Designer for a little over 3 years. I've worked on branding, marketing creatives, social media, and digital design, but now I'm finding it difficult to get interviews or offers from well-known design agencies or product companies.
I feel like I've reached a plateau. While I'm gaining experience, my salary growth has been slow, and I'm unsure what skills or changes would help me move to the next level.
I'd love to hear from designers who have successfully made this jump.