Each day, you’ll notice fresh featured content on the Behance Network and our Served Sites. We’re proud to show you the very best from our talented network of Creative Professionals, to help these greats get the exposure they deserve. Each day, the curators go through every single project that is uploaded; we get a lot of questions from network members asking how we choose the featured content on both the Behance Network and The Served sites.
Well, we’ll tell you (what we can). Innumerable factors go into how featured work is chosen, but the Curatorial Team has put together a list of a few outstanding features that they look for when sorting through the freshly uploaded projects each day. If you won’t rest easy until your work gets on the front page or a Served site, keep these guidelines in mind:
Length
We appreciate length in a project; if your project has only 1 or 2 images, it will not be featured. There is no limit on length – the longer the better!
Concept
The project should hang together around one central concept or idea. A project shouldn’t be “all about your design,” but incorporate your great design in a fluid and conceptual way.
Presentation
To us, clean, organized, and professional presentation of work is as important as quality of work.
That was very helpful! AND i want to get featured
Could you also consider including criteria relating to the way a project might promote the “social good”, that is, the extent to which the substantive content has an important social or environmental focus?
Also, have you considered “Featuring” groups?
I think that you are not always consistent in their criteria, and Behance should be a reputable design social network. Projects such as the
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Raw-Material-Branding-NEW/413186
(this is nothing personal of course), and others alike,
really do not deserve to be featured, and this is not the only case that is something that is not so professional and well designed to be featured.
It is also too forced illustrations, and i think that each design section should receives equal treatment.
That’s my opinion.
Thanks
Yeah
I really think that this doesn’t matter…every of my work is up to your criteria, and i never was featured…but many other that DOES NOT fit in this ‘rules’ are featured.
I don’t wright this because i never get featured (nevermind), but there’s tooooooooo many not so professional works being featured…
Just keep consistency, nothing else.
This is best online design gallery, don’t ruin it
Thnx
Srecko
…. subjective interpretation of submitted work as is administered in these environs must inevitably dis-allow certainty of ever-critical exposure as ‘featured’, fostering a continual misunderstanding between the majority of subscribers not ‘featured’ and those that are selected for that honor.
I would wonder the possible consideration of a process such as that implemented by (for example) The Computer Graphics Society ( http://www.cgsociety.org ) whereby each submission is ‘featured’ as it is accepted by the Society, scrolled politely before all viewers by time received, allowing each and every work equal opportunity to be viewed and appreciated by the community – not by committee.
Hmmmmm… As someone who’s been featured before it still seems a little odd how the featuring process works. For instance, how can you go through everything that gets uploaded each day? Surely there must be thousands? I was featured last time after the project had been up a good couple of weeks, have no idea how the work was found.
So I guess my question is – does the curatorial team also trawl through the works of people who’ve got a certain number of views/appreciations etc or is it only as the work is uploaded?
Hmmmm….. as someone who’s been featured before I’m a little curious – my project was featured after it had been up for several weeks, not just after it was uploaded. So I guess my question is, how do the curatorial team go through the thousands of previously loaded projects?
thanks so much, well at least I know where I’m going wrong. Not enough art per project.
I would really like to be featured!
I will work very hard to get featured!
Bring it on.
This information is very useful. Thank you! I’ll be pushing my work for a front page spot. It’s good to know the criteria.
Is there anybody I can contact to suggest a project to be featured?
I have read your criteria that the work needs to align to, but this seems to be more talk than anything else. I have been on here for sometime now but it would seem that no matter what i post on this site it will just be unrecognized. Kind of loosing faith here…
I a bit surprised to see all the people complaining here that their work is not being featured. Creepy. LOL
Not so sure that the length of a project should grounds for consideration,
substance and presentation I think are much more important,
quality over quantity IMO,
besides lengthy projects take forever to upload.
I have been on Behance for the petter part of 4 years now. I think it’s a great site and very intuitive to use. I also think the selection by a team of people is a good method to maintain continuity in style, but it gets really repetitive, and I no longer enjoy scrolling/browsing anymore, seems like it is always the same thing that gets featured. Other artists are drowned and not seen (they are not “Nike”….). A lot of good stuff is not properly presented. I think to develop more traffic and get more of your KOLs spreading the love of Behance, you should incorporate a more society feeling where things get featured and voted by users (Digg/Pligg style). Let me know if you are interested in more input…
It is good to know rules but my work never was futured on Behance network
I really, really like Behance and I think you are doing an amazing job. Most of the featured works are just brilliant but length is a tricky criteria. I like the fact that you emphasize photography, ‘highly skilled’ illustrations, font work and geometric visual identity but would also be happy to see a bit more diversity.
seems like a lot of the same artists get featured week after week. right?
My works are perfect….. but i never get featured….
This was simple, can you please take a look at my gallery ?!
be.net/arifkamalzaidi
I’m wondering how you can review all the portfolios …That’s might be HUGE task !
If by any luck you have a chance to have a look to my portfolio
=> http://www.eyesonlife-photography.com/
Best from Paris !
You say you only look at recently added projects, but what if you missed some good projects when they were first published, and now they will be ‘too old’ to be noticed. If this is the case you should check out my work because a few fit the above criteria
It’s great to select projects to featuring, therefore artists too, but I think you select multiple projects too often in the same portfolio, and projects that looks alike. Maybe you should select one project per portfolio or less often, to give more chance for other artists.
That just my opinion.
Best regards,
Where can I e-mail you some information and related photos of our new project?
You can email us energy[at]behance[dot]com
Do these two look good ?
http://www.behance.net/gallery/CARIBOU/3894911
http://www.behance.net/gallery/DOME/3895077
Tried to put more and better pictures. I never got featured :/