Archive for 2011

Geeky Projects Get Blogger Love This Week

Behance has its fair share of nerdy projects, many of which you geeks go absolutely wild for (we don’t blame you). We noticed a few picked up on blogs, and loved the nostalgic descriptions inspired by these throw-backs so much, we thought we’d share:

Teachnabob says “Pacmania Bowl Needs To Be A Thing”:
Being an avid fan of the classic arcade game Pac-Man, it’s hard for me to resist much of anything with a solid Pac-theme to it. so combine Pac-Man with junk food, and I’m happier than a yellow puck in a roomful of blue ghosts and unlimited powerpills.

Geeks are Sexy notices “Pixel Gallery: The Game Boy Book”
Like a lot of the rest of us, Sergio Ingravalle has a certain nostalgia for 8-bit graphics and old-school gaming. Back in its heyday, nothing was more awesome than the Nintendo Game Boy. Even now, it’s still the third highest-selling handheld system of all time. An entire generation of kids grew up playing monochromatic Street Fighter Street Fighter II, so it only stands to reason that our artists would feel compelled to recall it in their work.

Tipline: Writers Can Behance, Too!

Though Behance is open to all Creative Professionals, it’s clear that the project gallery is overwhelming visual, not text-based. But, this doesn’t mean that all you out there in the literary world can’t use Behance + ProSite. In fact, we have a bunch of Creative Fields geared directly to you, including  copywriting, editing, journalism, screenwriting, publishing, storytelling, and writing

A few tips:

1) Embed Your Work From ISSU:
In the past, the fact that we don’t’ support PDF uploads has been a problem for writers. Now, we support Embeds from Issu, a free service that lets you upload + publish your paginated work, polished and beautiful. Just go here, upload your writing, and then use the EMBED feature in our project editor to add the embed code. Check out an example of how you can use the click-through below.



2) Include visual elements:
Whether it’s the cover of a magazine you were published in, or some related imagery, it helps to have a visual element as a project cover or within the project iself.

3) Use ProSite as your Personal Website
Although Behance Network is design-heavy, ProSite allows so much freedom that it’s equally well suited for a Writer as it is a Graphic Designer. Add as many pages as you’d like, such as an About Page, Interviews, FAQs, Publication Galleries, Contact Page. Here’s a good example of how a children’s book illustrator uses it: http://rolandtheillustrator.com

This Week on the Behance Network

Here’s a look at some of the most appreciated projects and Creative Professionals of the week on Behance.net…


Animal Portraits
There’s something mildly unsetting about these stunning animal portraits that that we couldn’t put our finger on – but then we read the artist’s description: “The theme in the series is the almost human facial expression of the animals – some looking nervous, some arrogant or attentive…” He says this’ll become a coffee table photo book someday – wish we could pre-order it!


A Series of Surreal Light Illustrations
“Light is fascinating. We can see it and yet it is intangible.” Tang Yau Hoont was able to capture all that is mysterious and elusive about light in this series of really clever, almost humorous illustration series. My personal favorites: Light Painter, Curtain, and Pool of Light (above).

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Tipline: Add Social Media buttons to ProSite

We recently added a feature that allows you to upload images to your ProSite navigation. While this can be used to do any number of creative things, one thing it allows is a much-requested feature: adding Social Media buttons. To achieve this, here’s a few steps to take:

  1. Create Pages for whatever sites you’d like to add a button for (Flickr, Vimeo, Mail, whatever). To do this, go to ProSite –> Pages –> Add New –> Link.
  2. When you name your page, just type a punctuation mark (you don’t want a title, since you’re covering this up with an image).
  3. Go to Design –> Navigation –> Links –> Images, and upload the social media image you’d like to there. You’ll see that you can add a Rollover of On state if you’d like.

Remember that the placement of the navigation (and therefore, the buttons)  depends completely on your layout. If you’d like to see these somewhere else – upper right hand corner, left column, etc – check out the options in the Layout tab.

Bloggers <3 Behance Creatives

We’re psyched when bloggers take it upon themselves to curate the work on Behance and post projects they’re loving, because we get to revisit some stellar projects, and many of you get to see them for the first time. We thought we’d share a few Behance roundups we found on other blogs, along with their picks.

Flavorwire: Shocking Photos of Life in Mozambique’s “Trash Land”
Design You Trust – Our Top 10 Favorite Artists from Behance
Underworld Magazine: Awesome Designers on Behance


Flavorwire blogged about “Trash Land”


Design You Trust noticed this paper craft project.


Underworld Magazine blogged about this work from Alexander Wells


This Week on the Behance Network

Here’s a look at some of the most appreciated projects and Creative Professionals of the week on Behance.net…


Marvel Minimalist Posters
Most “minimalist redesigns” on Behance get a good amount of attention, but these Minimal Marvel Posters, recreating the comic posters with just one pivotal representative image, got a whopping 97,000 views since last week. Also, we love this story about a dad quizzing his son on which comics the posters corresponded to.


Cities
After much curious speculation amongst users, the artist revealed that this stunning, textured pieces were made using “heavy photoshop manipulation and drawing.” Overwhelming in their detail, we could get lost in these digital “cities.”
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This Behancer is “running” the alphabet – featured on NYTimes!

Behancer Joan Pons Moll got some attention from the New York Times last week in a blog feature on his fitness meets typography project, “Athletic Type.”

Athletic Type/Running Alphabet – NYT
The Spanish graphic designer Joan Pons Moll is creating a new typeface, but unlike most typographers, he’s doing so with his feet rather than a computer, and he’s slightly out of breath. Taking sneakers to pavement, Pons is planning to run the entire alphabet — both upper- and lower-case letters — in his inventive endeavor, Running Alphabet.

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8 Questions with Michelle LeClerc, LA’s Behance Ambassador

1) Describe what you do in a few words.
I’m an Art Director and Graphic Designer living in Los Angeles, CA. When I’m not doing that, I’m a Behance Ambassador and an event producer for AIGA Los Angeles. Design pretty much consumes everything I do. When I’m not designing, I’m thinking about designing.

2) Who, dead or alive, would you love to collaborate with?
Studio Number One! I really love their work.

3) What 3 things should any Behancer visiting LA do?
1. Drop on by Hennessey + Ingalls Bookstore in Hollywood or Santa Monica
2. Visit the Banksys
3. Come to one of the Behance / AIGA LA Meetups!

4) What creative work are you obsessed with right now?

  • Lowman: I can’t think of the words to describe his work right now. It just makes me very happy.
  • The Heads of State’s Great Gatsby Business Cards Poster: Fitzgerald is so gracious to allow his readers to be a fly on the wall during these fictional, decadent parties of the 1920’s. The Heads of State take took it a step further and created story-specific cards for all of the guests at the party. Even the addresses correspond correctly to the characters and if I wasn’t aware of that fact I’d assume they were standing right there next to Mr. Carroway throughout the whole ordeal.
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Tips from FLUD-Making News Sexy With Their Mobile Apps

FLUD, a mobile reader “making news sexy,” lets you consume the blogs and feeds you love on an app that makes the content look better than it ever has. We invited them to write a guest blog post and tell you a bit more about what they do, and give some tips for using the app to gain influence.

You do what you love. You want to meet others who love what you love, and talk about it. You also want to get hired to do what you love. We’ve found one of the best uses for FLUD is to consume the latest content in your area of interest, and post the best articles to social media. Keep your peers updated on what you’re reading, start a conversation with a coworker, or a resume of the passion and knowledge running wild in your brain.

Try out FLUD’s recipe for daily reading and posting to Twitter: Read more →

The Creative World, Powered By Behance [Infographic]

With 12 Gallery Sites, 6+ Behance-powered Networks, and 700,000,000 views of creative work (and counting), the Behance Network is helping creatives showcase and discover creative work like never before.

But what about the data behind the Network? With the enclosed infographic, our team wanted to share some exciting updates on growth and a few things we learn as we organize the creative world’s work.

We continue to improve the platform, build new partnerships, and find more ways to empower the careers of creative professionals. We wish to thank the Behance Ambassadors around the globe and the countless members who have helped spread the word about Behance, and have provided feedback on how to make Behance better. We’re listening, and we have a whole pipeline of projects that will provide even more exposure for your work and opportunity.

Now, onto some data…