#portfolios2

[cherrycokeandart]

A bit of the branding guide I made for Corren Cavini, with the including explanations for all of my choices. 

The full one can be viewed here, since it’s a lot of slides and I don’t want to clutter up my portfolio with them. The colour palette, logo, website and typography can be found there along with the reasoning.

[cherrycokeandart]

Here’s an explanation behind every logo and the inspirations I took. The end result became the rectangles, of course. As you can see, I think they’re very pretty and simple, with just a tiny bit of contrast in the middle with the collision. 

It was fun to experiment with the shapes, and to make a logo for a person and not a company for once. It was also very nice to work with an artist, it felt like I could be a bit more free, a bit more creative. A very nice experience !

[cherrycokeandart]

Logo designs I made for the DJ me and my team are branding. You can check out his soundcloud here if he seems like the music you’d enjoy.

It was a long process of inspiration and iteration, but these are all of the things I made. The explanation behind every piece and the inspirations can be looked at here, though it’s in Dutch again.

I experimented with different fonts and shapes, which was fun and also a learning experience. I practiced some more with illustrator, which is always nice. Corren wanted to have something minimalistic and with little to no color, which was super nice because it fit into my personal style and taste perfectly. I tried to keep it to just one shape or just his name, though the shapes give it a bit more personality in my opinion.

[cherrycokeandart]

Here are some pictures from the photoshoot I did! I used my amazing best friend, Storm, as the model and he’s a total cutie. We goofed around a bit during the shoot and had a lot of fun, that’s why there are so many genuine smiles.

I decided to go for natural lightning instead of studio lightning, because I find the aesthetic a lot prettier. We did end up improvising and using artificial colored lights after we got the idea to do so. We used a beamer and a laptop for the blue and red hues, very professional setup, I know. 

If you’re interested and want to read my full analysis and see more pictures, you can download the pdf file here.  The analysis is in Dutch however, but you can still go through the rest of the pictures.

[cherrycokeandart]

Here are some typography posters!

I’m not 100% happy with them, because they look like they were put together in 5 minutes because of their minimalism, but I really dislike posters that are too busy and too complex, that’s why I went with something very minimalistic. 

I really like colorblock, I discovered! The last poster and the third one are my favorites I think. I really like the minimalistic playfulness of the fonts, and the colors aren’t too bright but still colorful. 

This also gave me some good illustrator practice, and that’s always nice. I feel like all adobe programs are made too complex, like just add all the tools in one bar? Gosh, it’s not that hard. 

[cherrycokeandart]

Code snippets!

Require, to add the code from that file into this one.

Echo for recalling things from the database, as you can see the text and values that are being recalled are added into H2 and p brackets.

An if statement, to see if something is true or false. (Be sure to use two = inside an if-statement)

Format, I used this one for formatting a daytime value from the databse. It is formatted to view the day it was created, month and followed up by the year.

[cherrycokeandart]

Here are the better and improved sketches ! 

Changed up but mostly cleaned up the previous sketch, added some more subheaders. At first my idea was to add all the works on the homepage, but I realized it would be too messy and too unorganized, so I decided to organize it a bit. 

I honestly really like this design. It’s very neat, kind of colorful but not too harsh or distracting. I’m not sure about the works pages however, they look kind of empty and messy, and it doesn’t feel the same as the home pages, but I guess I’ll clean that up too if I get a better idea. I’m also thinking about what I will do with works that are only text-based, because I have a feeling it’ll be too empty that way. 

click here for the xd file and a mp4 of clicking through sites.

[cherrycokeandart]

For this assignment, I had to develop a working CMS system that I could use as a portfolio. Sadly, I’m not yet finished by the deadline. This is the first sketch I made of how I want it to look like. I tried to make this in html and css, it’s not on the server but you can download the code here. 

The CMS/backend part IS online however, and you can visit it here, though it’s really not much to look at. You can download the code here.