Category: Behance Network

Highlights from our Curated Galleries

We created Curated Galleries to bring you a steady supply of top creative work, with each site streaming fresh projects in specific categories like architecture, packaging design and fashion. Our curation team combs through each and every project published on Behance to serve up the best of what they find. Click here to view the full selection of curated sites or visit the Galleries tab –> Curated Sites on be.net. Here are a few highlights from the galleries:


“Private House” by Simonas Slucka is a digital rendering of sleek home with floor-to-ceiling windows and clean lines, surrounded by tons of greenery. Recently featured in our Architecture Gallery, you can see the full project here.



San Francisco’s Ferry Building, a culinary mecca for local farmers, chefs and artisans inspired this private label brand of gourmet Italian food. The innovative designs include smart details like a box for dried herbs and spices that also functions as a dispenser. A recent feature on the Packaging Design gallery, check out the full project here.


As part of an editorial accessory shoot for Vogue magazine, the above photo is one in a series of four that reflect the zodiac signs Aries, Leo, Gemini and Virgo. Spotted on our Fashion Served Site, see the full shoot here.

Behance Portfolio Review Week – First Photos!

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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This Week’s Most Appreciated Projects

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.

This Week’s Most Appreciated Projects

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.

New Collaboration With Pinterest // Better Attribution

Today we’re pleased to announce a collaboration with Pinterest, the fast growing social media website that now drives more referral traffic than Twitter and most other websites. Any Behance project added to Pinterest will include proper attribution, along with a direct link to the source project and the user’s portfolio. Today, Pinterest has launched this integration with Behance, Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo.

The Problem We’re Trying To Solve

While the internet offers creatives the opportunity to get mass exposure for their work, it often falls short. 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. As a result, creative careers often fail to benefit from the exposure that their work receives.
Needless to say, the future of creative careers is all about sourcing opportunity on the web. You publish your work – and then it circulates. If people love it, they’ll want to come follow you and/or contact you. Exposure for your work is pointless unless it is directly attributed and linked to your portfolio.

The Solution Is A System For Attribution

At Behance, we want the web to foster direct and proper attribution for every piece of creative work – wherever it may be displayed. You need to get credit for you work wherever it shows up online, with a direct link back to your portfolio where people can contact you or follow you for future updates. And, as more people visit your portfolio on Behance and opt to follow your work, you will get more opportunity via Behance’s search and explore tools.

On Behance, as more and more people visit your portfolio and follow your work, you become more visible in our many galleries and search/sorting tools. Over the years, our team has become very focused on promoting the direct attribution and credit for creative work across the web. Sites like Tumblr, Fffound, and others routinely feature images from the portfolios of creative professionals and fail to either link back or carry any level of consistent attribution. In response, we are pushing more top websites to properly credit the creatives behind the work. Behance has also started to power creative portfolio display for sites like LinkedIn, AdWeek, RISD, SVA, and many others in an effort to streamline attribution and portfolio management across the web.

Our Collaboration With Pinterest

Pinterest has become a dominant tool for “discovery” of all sorts of content. Increasingly, Pinterest is being used by creatives of all kinds – as well as journalists and recruiters – to discover and collect great creative work. Now, through a special collaboration with Pinterest, every image pinned from a Behance project will include a direct link to the source project as well as the user’s full portfolio. This attribution and featured set of links will be included both on the small and open version of the “pin” on Pinterest. We are also actively working with other sites on the web that wish to properly attribute work to the rightful owner.

Looking Forward

With tools for proper attribution, creative careers are enhanced by unparalleled levels of exposure and opportunity via the social web. We just need to find better ways to showcase and credit creative work so that it ultimately serves the creative behind the work. The future of creative careers is about much more than sites to upload images. We need an ecosystem where you can publish in one place, showcase everywhere you want, and get discovered anywhere your work is displayed.

Our team is pretty psyched about the prospect of organizing the creative world’s work. As always, if you have ideas and suggestions, please reach out to us! @Behance

Counting down to Behance Portfolio Review Week!

With less than 3 weeks until Behance’s first global Portfolio Review Week, our meet-up organizers are making the final arrangements for their events and starting to receive their review kits in the mail. It’s not look late to claim a meet-up in your area or RSVP to attend. To learn more about Behance Portfolio Reviews please visit be.net/reviews.






This Week’s Most Appreciated Projects

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 people & teams on Behance this week…


Fine Arts photographer, Jon Reid, notes that, “In spite of the incredible diversity in Italy, one thing remains consistent – vibrant color.” His photography project captures these colorful landscapes and so much more. Check it out here.


Josip Kelava was tasked with creating logo designs and a full branding package for the Common Man, a restaurant and bar. Inspired by the resto’s rustic and hearty meals, Kelava brought lot of texture into his design and elements of the building’s exterior into details of the interior space. See here for the full experience.

Webby Nominations: The 99%, SVA Portfolios, and the Behance Network

We’re excited to announce that three members of the Behance family have been nominated for Webby Awards!

SVA Portfolios, an exclusive online network powered by Behance for SVA alumni, faculty and students to showcase original work, has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Self-Promotion/Portfolio category.

While we’ve always thought Behance has the best members, now we have a Webby endorsement to back it up: the Behance Network has been nominated for Best Community.

Last but not least, after winning the category last year, The 99% is once again nominated for Best Cultural Blog.

 

ProSite Spotlight: Self-Promotion

A great creative career requires a marketing strategy to maximize exposure and opportunity. With all the customization options available on ProSite, the possibilities for highlighting your specialties and skills are endless. Here are a few ProSites that feature innovative examples of self-promotion:


Max Sobkowski had a little fun with his profile, and created a poster that highlights his skills & rate.


Bruno Viegas turned his about page into an infographic CV complete with symbols & graphs.


Ben Cook is an interactive designer, so laying out his skill set, availability and tools in an accessible, yet creative manner was important. The “About” tab on his ProSite even lists “who I am and what I can do” before the user has clicked – you know exactly what you’re getting!


22 Creative Studios created a clear, to-the-point, “Services” section on their site that lets visitors and potential clients alike know exactly what they’re capable of.

Behind the Project: Instruments from the Inside

In this series, we’ll look deeper into some of the projects on Behance.net that were especially admired in our community. This time, we spoke to Bjoern Ewers, who did the Art Direction for the spectacular campaign “Instruments from the Inside.” In this campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, the team (including photographer Mierswa Kluska) created these mesmerizing photos to give the effect of being “as close as possible to the music.”



What was your inspiration for this project?
It usually takes some time to get a good creative concept for a campaign, but this idea which copywriter Mona Sibai and I developed at Scholz & Friends Berlin came up very fast – only about 10 minutes after the brief! For us, the idea came out of the product itself – what do you think when a term like “chamber orchestra” is spinning in your head? At the time, it felt so obvious that we were wondering no one else had this idea before.

Can you describe your process in creating this project.
In terms of actually coming up with the photos, our first thought was to actually build little rooms (to replicate the inside of instruments) to get inside. But because of time, we decided to go with CGI.Together with photographer Markus Kluska and a CGI guy working for the automobile industry, we produced 12 images of instruments from the inside.

But then, we decided that the concept still felt too digital, so we started again, this time buying real instruments to shoot. We shot them in the studio of Mierswa Kluska in Munich by cutting them off on one side to get a good view inside. It was a strange feeling to cut a fragile violin with a massive saw!

Do you feel that this project is “done,” or is there anything you’d like to improve on or change in the future?
No, the project is done. Often I’m not totally satisfied with my projects. But this is a great piece of advertising in my eyes and it has a huge impact. Mierwa Kluska did a great job and put a lot of energy in the project as well.

Did anything interesting happen as a result of the success of this project?  (fans contacting you, job opportunities, blogs picking it up, etc).
A huge wave of comments and appreciates were dropped on the project. My inbox got filled up with blog publishing requests, newspaper inquiries, radio interviews and people who wanted to buy posters of the images.  I was really stoked how the blog monster took over and published the instruments from inside all over the world. Welcome to the digital world.

Did you expect it to be as popular as it’s been on The Behance Network?
No I did not to be honest. The funny thing is the project was published 2 years ago on Behance. Then one day before my birthday, Behance posted “instruments from inside” on their 1st page. It was great fun. Great birthday present guys!