Heya,
I've been redonkulously busy these past few weeks, and a lot of it went towards a portfolio site for my advertising work. Well, it was officially completed early this morning, very very quickly from inception, thanks to the great help of two friends. One provided a practically functioning site for me a few hours after he got my message (because while I can now set up a reasonably adequate site with divs and CSS Styles thanks to Web Design I last semester, it takes me ages to get it right--and he did it free! Owe him tons there...), which I spent a long time tweaking to exactly what I needed. And then another hosted my site for free, too. Sometimes, the generosity of friends is so amazing, especially in the light of bad weeks...
Anyhow, take a look! I hope you enjoy it! :)
Advertising Portfolio
Friday, March 28, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
I like your header. It's a pain to code in IE, eh? Hopefully IE8 will have some conformity to coding rules.
People really seem to like oversharpening these days. I'm not sure why. :{ I think it looks weird.
If you mean overshaprening of the header...that was totally a mistake I missed, haha! Was so bleary, didn't see it until it was pointed out to me yesterday.
As to IE...SO ANNOYING! Thankfully I caught the problem early, and thankfully most designers/advertisers are partial to Macs lol. But it's definitely not a rule...
Say, do you have IE7 or higher? I think the problem may be fixed now in terms of IE's rendering of the divs in the Portfolio section, but I still see some minor things (IE6 previewer), but my friend on IE7 says all's well...
It's fine now in IE7. IE6 is horrible. I only use the simplest of div codes for it and virtually no padding because it would look completely different in FF. But the majority of people have upgraded so I don't think it's a big problem now.
For oversharpening I was referring to the package of Halls in your portfolio.
Aha. Thanks for that!
Yes, my psd file is much larger, and when I shrunk them down to the sizes on the site, a lot of my nice icy detail was getting smothered into nothingness. :(
I just did a quick sharpening effect on things and it brought things back, but I should have masked off the product!
Definitely love the Halls stuff. I actually missed that the ice was Halls drops in the first one until I went a little farther along XD So neat!
The climate change ideas are pretty nifty, too. Very intelligent without being too too in your face about it. Kind of inspiring double takes, I think.
Overall, super awesome!
Thanks a lot, Twill! :) Yes, I really like the Halls series, and I think the popsicle one is so cute. I think a popsicle can make anything cute, haha.
I got some great feedback as well during a portfolio show the school held yesterday. I'm running these by my teacher now, so I'll have a pool of feedback--there were universal pleasers, but also some that some ad guys liked, and others were more lukewarm to. A few agreed independently among them as weaker may be removed, pending last comments from my instructor to ensure best stuff is up.
Hey Natrix!
Those ads are AMAZING!!! Again, I really, really like the Halls ones, and it also took me up to the popsicle one to go back and realize that the champagne bottle ice cubes were also Halls.
I absolutely loved and laughed at the Las Vegas one and, in the same vain as the Halls ads, I also like the Colgate toothpaste ones.
The Revlon lipstick ads were right up Revlon's alley... totally something that I would see them doing in the future.
As for compatability issues with IE7, I have no problems with it on my laptop, so I guess it's just IE6.
Can't wait to see more, dude!
Post a Comment