This post is part of a series written in collaboration with the Behance Curation Team, the experts on staff who select projects to be featured in Behance’s main Gallery and 12+ Curated “Served” Sites. Click here to see the first post in the series.
In the coming weeks, we’ll explore different aspects of the project creation process, and outline how to create the best project possible. Here are a few concrete things that our curators look in a featureable project:
1) Project Length
Generally, projects should have 6-20 images-without repetition. It’s rare to see a Featured Project with just 1 or 2 images in it. If your project is showcasing a single piece of work – say, a mural – it’s important to show detailed view of this piece to create more content for the project.
2) Large Images
Make sure your project is on the larger size, ideally around 600 pixels. Our curators look out for good quality and resolution, and a consistent image width throughout the project.
3) Pure Images – No Watermarks!
We find that watermarks and other ownership marks distract from the media in a project, so we would warn against including these in your project.
4) A complete, polished project
Many people publish partially completed projects, and then finish them later on. Because our curators can’t look at a project each time that it is edited, we suggest only publishing projects when they’re ready to be considered for the Featured Gallery. (Many people use Behance to publish work-in-progress, and then get feedback. This is fine! But for the greatest chance of getting featured, we suggest creating a totally new project once you’ve taken your edited based on your feedback).
An example of a given day’s “Featured Gallery.”
Those are excellent tips for every one. I was very happy when my job ‘Donkey Kong Country Returns’ got featured on Web Design Served Gallery.
great tips.
Reminding
I’m trying to be featured. I still waiting my time on Behance.
Well, I have been changing and improving my portafolio… I have great projects, great renders, good design quality and no feature…
I ‘ve read your tips and they sound me as if they where angling for something ephemeral, Why? because off course I’ve seen feature projects with watermarks and with two images… on the other hand, this just make me think you are just buttering up the creative people , because lots of the features I see come from the same artist/designers at least 70%… and Yes, most of them have good quality, but others don’t ( I would post here some examples, but that would be unethical)
I recommend you to start looking for new talents intead of prising the same people and be coherent with the things your curators are looking for….
Regards.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to suggest artists upload high resolution images with no watermark when the images can be saved off the website so easily.
I agree with Miguel on this. There has been several projects which haven’t been fully completed. Eg. Template websites with lorem ipsum in there.
While doing a specific search brings up a whole load of unfeatured and unknown work of a high quality, and it would be great to see this variety presented in the featured gallery.
Thanks,
Neil
Hi guys – thanks for weighing in!
@Miguel – we’re trying to give best practices that will be helpful to creatives across all fields. Of course, what’s most important is quality of work, which we can’t teach, but we are happy to give tips on presentation.
@Neil – Noted, thanks! If you’ve seen a featured project with “lorem ipsum,” please do send it to us, nothing like that should have been featured.
@Sarah hahahahaahahahahaha thats the biggest bunch of bs ive ever read. about half of the websites featured have lorem ipsum on them. Give me till the end of the day ill bring you ten from the past month.
But having Lorem Ipsum shouldn’t exclude you from being featured. Maybe We don’t want sensitive client information out in the ether but still want credit for our work.
Sometimes I honestly think you guys make this stuff up as you go along.
Heres three on the home page just today alone.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Food-Life/4703815
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Alexandra-Posen-Hugo-Marie/4892781
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Laundry-Master-App-iOS/4540475
when you guys say things like lorem ipsum shouldn’t be in a featured project it really strips you of credibility and makes this whole thing seem like an old boys club and exclusionary.
sarah i thought your name was familiar and then i remembered ive butt heads with you before
http://forum.prosite.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/625#Comment_625
still giving out misleading information i see…
Hey Robert – thanks for the feedback! Though I’m not seeing the lorem ipsum on the links you sent?
We’ll take your feedback to the team, and in the meantime, we’ll keep trying to clarify our curation process with our community.
“Though I’m not seeing the lorem ipsum on the links you sent?”
Really? Your joking right?
Thats literally like standing in a burger king and telling me you cant smell the fries.
Hi Robert – sorry, we thought you meant that Behance’s sample text with each project template (also lorem ipsum), hadn’t been removed. We don’t mind generic text within mockups the designs
As long as the design work takes center stage, we understand the need for generic text.
Hey People, I really don’t understand why the problem with ‘Lorem ipsum’ texts, come on!
A featured project can be a website mockup, with great design and visual concepts, what’s the problem, you want to read it? Or is it a problem that the project weren’t approved by the client? Is that a reason to consider it a bad case?
You know that most works are great before the client put the hands on it…
New subject:
do you advise to write the concepts in English? Being French, the expression of the concept can be very difficult to translate. The language may be a barrier and push the designers not to speak.
Then you speak english. With so many project to inspect, do you have the time to traduce so many langage to really understand what designers express?
Thanks
Good tip list.