We’re just halfway through Behance Portfolio Review Week, and dozens of new events are happening each day (including Behance HQ’s kickoff event last night). All day today, fresh batches of photos, tweets, instagrams, and emails about events were arriving hour-by-hour. Here’s a look at the latest:
Last night, we kicked off Portfolio Review Week with an event at GrindSpaces. One hundred Creative Professionals gathered over appetizers & drinks in the sprawling co-working space to see 5 inspiring presentations, and then break into small groups to get into the nitty-gritty of improving work & presentation. A big thanks to the leaders of our break-out review sessions: Matias Corea (Co-Founder and Chief of Design at Behance), James Bareham (founder of The New Cruelty) and Mark Macaulay (Career Advisor at Parsons School of Design).
Dig into the portfolios of our 5 presenters: Julian Hibbard , Matt Carr, Navid Baraty, James Bareham & Barry Orkin
1) Grab your new embed code
Go to the original source of your video embed (on Vimeo or YouTube) and adjust the embed code to the max width you’d like to display on ProSite, then copy the code.
2) Edit or create a Behance project
Create a new project with the embed code, or, to add to an existing project, go to Edit Projects on your Behance account and replace the existing video with the new code, then save. (NOTE: the video will still appear as 600px wide on Behance, but it will have the full width on ProSite)
3) Update your ProSite
Go to your ProSite editor. The video will now display at the same width as your project images. You can adjust the project image width in Design–>Styles–>Projects–>Project Image Width
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The first ever Behance Portfolio Review Week has officially commenced! With communities formed in over 400 cities, this will be a week filled with sharing work, getting feedback, and connecting with your local creative community. We’re happy to present the initial reports from around the world…
Munich, Germany
IDEO Offices
Hosted by Marius Bauer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hosted by Behance Ambassador Muid Latif
Here’s Chon Lam (aka “Flying Mouse”) presenting his work
Vancouver, Canada
Hosted by Ketan Jogia & ThisisVancity
Presenter Photoshoot! (event is on Wednesday)
Singapore
Hosted by Behance Student Ambassador Elizabeth Rasia Tanawi
At LaSalle School of the Arts
Milan, Italy – 5/14
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Dear Behance Community-
I want to share some news with you about Behance’s growth and recent progress, our first round of funding, and exciting days ahead.
For the past five years, Behance has been a bootstrapped enterprise. We’ve sold Action Pads, books, job postings, conference tickets, and even banner ads (horror!) to generate the income to build Behance. It’s been amazing, and we’ve developed as a team and company in extraordinary ways.
But now, more than ever before, we see a tremendous opportunity to take Behance to the next level as it grows by leaps and bounds. The community is showcasing and discovering creative work at a fast clip!
Given our rapid growth, it’s time for Behance to scale. We have an exciting product pipeline we want to make happen. So, for the first time, we debated the option of continuing to bootstrap vs. raising funds. Ultimately, the team wanted to kick things up a notch: We want the resources to do our life’s greatest work in serving the creative community.
We met with all sorts of investors, sharing our mission and the progress we’re making. Ultimately, it came down to finding partners who share our vision and values.
We’re thrilled to bring on Union Square Ventures as our lead (and first) investor in Behance. The USV team understands the role of the creative community in the world, and they have a tremendous history of advising network-based businesses, namely Etsy, Twitter, Foursquare, and Kickstarter among others. And USV’s culture aligns very well with our own.
We’re also thrilled to have a few other people we admire help fund Behance, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (via Bezos Expeditions, his personal investment fund), as well as Dave Morin, Yves Behar, Chris Dixon, Dave Tisch, Dave McClure (via 500Startups), Alexis Ohanian, and Garrett Camp. These thinkers and investors have a history of changing industries. It’s a dream team for us.
Quite simply, we want the wind at our backs as we tackle the biggest problems facing the creative industry.
The creative world needs better attribution for creative work to yield more opportunity. We need to combat spec contests, middlemen, and commoditized marketplaces with better ways to find top talent. We need to boost efficiency in showcasing creative work and collaborating across disciplines. …Lots to make happen!
No doubt, Behance is still in the first inning. Our team is more excited than ever before to listen, learn, and serve the creative community in meaningful ways.
Going forward, you can expect a faster, more effective Behance and an unwavering mission to help you get organized, take creative control and make ideas happen.
Much love and respect.
Scott & Behance Team
Alex K, Alex L, Alison, Bryan, Chris, Clément, Dan, Dave, Dmitry, Florian, Jackie, Jenn, Jess, Jocelyn, John, Malcolm, Matias, Matt, Mell, Nami, Nina, Oscar, Raewyn, Sarah, Scott, Will, Zach
PS: Join us on this journey! We’re building a world-class team that wants to serve the creative world in extraordinary ways. Here are a few positions we’re hiring now!
Among IT professionals and software developers, the debate over the merits of working on site has raged since the dawn of time. The Behance team has always advocated that being on site is the best way to build up a finely tuned team. Building great products requires constant collaboration, balancing of opinions, and being able to work with the girl with the right set of skills to solve your problem.
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Appreciations are a way to send genuine kudos to another creative professional on Behance. This is our community’s way of curating the network. Here’s a look at two of the most appreciated projects on Behance this week…
In simple gold on black, Tim Boelaars‘ collection of icons takes categories like weapons, transportation, and camping back to the basics with a dozen icons dedicated to each. View the entire project here.
A robust collection of data-filled infographics is the backbone of this beautifully visual, and very appreciated, encyclopedia from Martin Oberhäuser. See more of these colorful inforgraphics here.
In addition to displaying your work, we believe your online portfolio should tell your story. With all the customization options available on ProSite, the possibilities for personalizing your site – from your landing page to your project covers – are endless. Here are a few ProSites that show just how quirky & unique you can get:
Mario Testa’s site lands on a bold yet simple page with large numbers that rapidly count upwards when you scroll over. Each number represents a different project with more information about the work. Mario encourages users to play with his design and uncover the meaning for themselves. He is a man of few words, so it’s very fitting that he chose numbers for his navigation instead.
Meggen Skilling separates her work into right and left brain projects and her illustrated brain opens up different case studies and designs that are organized as ‘analytical’ or ‘creative.’ What a smart visual way of presenting two major areas of focus.
Paul Zolandz greets visitors with a hand written letter that links out to different projects & clients. The note is casual and accessible, while still serving its purpose – to introduce the work. We’d love this design even more if Paul included his contact info, as even his name can be difficult to find for first time visitors.
For more info on ProSite, or to sign up today please visit ProSite.com.
“Creating an amazing user experience for an app — one where the device itself almost melts away — requires a thoughtfulness and cleverness that can be hard to find.”
- Peter Rojas, Creator of Engadget, Gizmodo & RDRD LBL
In celebration of Internet Week, The Art of Apps gallery, hosted by Peter Rojas, is opening to the public for one day. The exhibition aims to showcase the “greatest user interface designers of our time,” including Behance designs from our Chief Designer and Co-founder Matias Corea.
The show opens on Monday, May 14 at the Soho Gallery For Digital Art, 138 Sullivan St., New York, NY
RSVP and learn more about the other exhibitors on The Art of Apps site
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Appreciations are a way to send genuine kudos to another creative professional on Behance. This is our community’s way of curating the network. Here’s a look at two of the most appreciated projects on Behance this week…
These Star Wars identities were created to advertise Lucasfilms and X3 Productions by a full team including an illustrator, copywriter, creative lead and more. Collaboration at its finest, check out the full campaign (and one of the Most Appreciate Projects on the Network) here.
The XKX Jaguar is a “new generation electric roadster” that was designed with both performance and power in mind. While the finished product is an undeniably sexy sports car, we like to think that part of the reason this project was so popular on the network was its narrative quality. The creators shared everything from their inspiration (1971 Jaguar models) to their sketches and plans, clay models, studio renders, detail shots and, of course, the finished campaign. See the full journey here.
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