Designmodo reports that; “Behance gives web designers the opportunity to display their work, network with peers, and find an easier path to exposure than they would with traditional marketing practices. With millions of users worldwide and a high amount of traffic, the Behance network has exploded in growth and is attracting not only great web designers, but also the people who hire them.”
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On May 1, Behance partnered with Pinterest, along with Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo, to drastically improve attributions on pins.
In an interview with Wired, Behance CEO Scott Belsky explained some of the issues the creative community faced that lead to this new feature:
“The greatest design work, illustration, photography — and any other creation — has the tendency to be shared on other websites, often times without a link back or even a proper credit,” says Scott Belsky, cofounder of Behance, a community of creative professionals. “As a result, creative careers often fail to benefit from the exposure that their work receives.”
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For more insights from Scott on the Pinterest collaboration, read his blog post on the launch
Vandelay Design created a round-up and review of every online portfolio tool currently available to creative professionals. Here’s what they had to say about Behance:
A recent article on My Central Jersey a graphic design instructor at Anthem Institute in North Brunswick explains why it’s important for students to take advantage of tools like Behance. She states:
“We use two tools specifically, LinkedIn and Behance.net. Using the sites together has greatly increased the number of interviews that our students have gotten.”
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In a recent roundup of career advice for social media enthusiasts, Behance Community Manager, Sarah Rapp, advises candidates to highlight their outgoing personality traits.
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In a recent interview for Italian Vogue, Art Director and Editor-in-Chief Riccardo Capuzzo, lists Behance as “a must-visit design blog.” Capuzzo says “[Behance] is a social network for designers where you can publish your own portfolio. I use it as a blog and visit it every day to see if there is any new interesting work.”
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“Dominic Le-Hair, a graphic designer from Dogsthorpe, has been catapulted from crafting free type-faces in snatched moments, to seeing his work used in a major advertising campaign for GAP.
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Creative directors working on the GAP campaign tracked Dominic down to his family home in Dogsthorpe after coming across his eye-catching alphabets at the online portfolio site Behance.net.”
Peterborough Graphic Designer, Dominic Le-Hair, was recently featured on the evening Telegraph and his recent career-changing campaign with the Gap is traced back to his Behance portfolio. We love hearing success stories like this one!
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A recent Mashable post named Behance.net as one of the top 5 user-friendly tools for building your online portfolio. Here’s what they had to say:
Summary: Behance is a platform for creative professionals to gain exposure and manage their careers. Users can create multimedia portfolios that showcase their work to millions of visitors.
Best Feature: Behance turns your work into an online gallery; It claims to get 15 times the traffic of all other leading portfolio sites combined (including Carbonmade, the next site on our list). Recruiters can find and track talent and post jobs for the creative professionals on the site.
What Needs Work: In order to have your own personal portfolio website, rather than just a profile on Behance, you need to join ProSite. This costs $11 a month, but it allows you to create a full website without coding, and it syncs with your Behance portfolio.
Ideal User: Any creative professional wishing to showcase multimedia projects — images, text, audio or video. The layout of the site is better for viewing visual projects, so anyone from graphic designers to photographers to industrial designers can benefit.
Cost: Free for a Behance profile, $11 a month for the ProSite.
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Designer Ben Whitesell researched and evaluated the best online portfolio tools for creatives in a recent blog post, and we’re thrilled that ProSite came out on top. ProSite is Behance’s completely customizable personal portfolio builder. Here’s some of what Ben had to say:
“I have had a great experience dealing with [Behance] through my free profile and did quite a bit of research into other hosted portfolio sites like Cargo Collective and the like. But, because the people behind Behance have been readily accessible via twitter, their blog, and forums, I felt comfortable going with them. The big selling point being how easy it was to set up a site, attach my own personal domain, and even drop in Google Analytics for tracking.
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I really like the level of customization that Prosite offers for webpages. Everything is easy adjusted from an administration panel and you can upload custom images for your header or for the gallery buttons. Columns for page layout can be adjusted to your preference and if you get a little creative then you can also get pretty custom with the sites navigation. Behance also regularly provides updates like adding the ability to add social media links, a custom favicon, custom type integration, and expandable images.”
Read Ben’s full post here and try ProSite out for yourself (for free) here.
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