Working On A New Portfolio

I have to be honest, my portfolio is sooooo 2008. I really appreciate the work the Normal Design Group did with it last year, but I think it’s high time for a little upgrade. Nothing too major, but I want to upgrade the freshness of it all and seeing as I’ve done a ton of work since the last time I updated, I’ve decided to rethink the whole idea. Couple that with the fact that the group over at One Night Site have agreed to help me make the transition to WordPress and I’ve decided to go ahead and start from scratch.

*Please note that Normal Design did an amazing job with branding me and my company last year and I would recommend using them to anyone, but a great opportunity with One Night Site has come up where they are going to guide me through the process of making a WordPress portfolio. As much as I love the work Normal has done, I made the decision based on the ability to update faster.

The main reason for the refresh is that I want an easier, more accessible way to upload new content. In my line of work I have the opportunity to lend a hand on a lot of different kinds of projects and having a standard html site meant I would have to spend evening upon evening physically making new pages. I found that because of my lack of development knowledge, I would often be pulling out my hair over the smallest things.

Over the years I’ve become accustom to the WordPress interface and even somewhat familiar to how it works behind the scenes. I’m slowly learning more about customizing templates and such and I’m a bit of a college freshman when it comes to plugins – meaning I’ll try anything once… Anyways, I’ve decided to go with a WordPress generated portfolio. I know it sounds a bit strange, but from a comfort level I’m going to enjoy adding to my new portfolio a lot more than I ever did before.

I’m like this writer guy with tons of ambition and a ridiculous imagination (shit I should put that in my Twitter profile…) so from a visual sense I don’t actually have a ton of sexy work. Knowing this I’m constantly looking for ways to make my port more appealing. Sure I’ve got a few names that I can rely on with regards to clients, but I’m mostly focused on describing exactly what my role is on a project. I’m not like a designer where I can make something awesome and simply put it up and say “Hey, look what I designed for Client X.” Instead I rely mostly on my relationships with clients and what exactly I have done for them with regards to narrative experience, brand language, interactive story telling and writing. Basically the sexiest thing I would be able to show would be a series of documents… Lame.

So moving forward I’ve decided to go with concept of building small case studies that explain my role on each project and what exactly I did for the whole experience. I’ll post a few images per study, but the focus is going to be explaining what I did and how I did it. Hopefully this won’t fall on its face.

I’ll let those of you who read this know when it is fully launched.

Bye for now.