2 Comments // Posted on the 18th Mar 2008 in Criticism & Discussion
Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. (John Keats, 1817)
Negative Capability is a perplexing concept that is often made to be more difficult than it really is, even though Keats provides us with a detailed definition that is almost too concise to paraphrase. Nevertheless the accounts of what Negative Capability truly is seem to differ a great deal.
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6 Comments // Posted on the 12th Feb 2008 in Others, Interweb
If your online portfolio looks like this, you might as well not bother uploading it. Image by striatic
It is lots of little details that make a great portfolio. A well-executed portfolio could be the difference between receiving a commission or not. There are enough online portfolios with amazing content that fail when it comes to usability. Even the best work will not keep visitors on your site, so make sure that your portfolio is accessible.
Over the last year I have seen a lot of different takes on what portfolio design should look like, especially during the build up of trying to design my own one. Therefore, I would like to share some of the dos and donts of presenting work online.
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4 Comments // Posted on the 26th Jan 2008 in From my sketchbook, Illustration & Animation, Others
It is time again to upload a page from my sketchbook. I withheld this particular one for a while as I thought that it might be used somewhere else… it wasn’t… so here it is:
The Blackletter Black Sheep: (In)proper capitalisation makes you lonely
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