Portfolios

Web-based portfolios

Some example portfolios of artists, designers, creative technologists (some favs of mine but also showing different approaches):

• Stefanie Posavec and Catt Small (as close as I can find to the “platonic ideal” of designer portfolio websites)
• REAS.com is a database for Casey REAS (wall of work; see also Tauba Auerbach)
• Kyle McDonald (most projects don’t have individual landing pages!)
• Darius Kazemi - My Projects (minimal, driven by Google Sheets!)
• Paul Soulellis (portfolio participates in a larger “design language” in Paul’s work)
• anna anthropy - itch.io (user page as portfolio)
• Overview – Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling (portfolio of mostly non-visual work; integrated into blog)
• American Artist (spare, direct)
• nicole he’s internet realm (a certain aesthetic)

What are the material components of a web portfolio?

• Why have a web-based portfolio?
  • Publicity
  • Demonstrating skill
  • Collecting your work
  • Applying for things
  • What is the real role of a design portfolio?
• Technology, with price ranges:
  • Domain name (some providers: Hover, Namecheap, etc.), $10-$50/year
  • Web hosting (some providers: Dreamhost, Neocities, GitHub Pages, Netlify, Amazon S3, etc.), ~$10/month (but can be found for free)
  • Content Management System (some providers: WordPress, Textpattern, Drupal, one of thousands of static website generators), many open source alternatives; commercial CMSes are often bundled with hosting
  • There are many services and platforms that combine one or more of the features above, e.g. WordPress.com, Cargo, Squarespace, WiX. These usually cost $10-$20/month depending on features and usage.
• Content
  • Photo, video, audio
  • Description
  • Events, resume, CV
• Interface components
  • Indexes, tags, categories