Digital Design Interface - Portfolio, Process, Philosophy

May 3rd, Portfolio and Process - Initial conceptual sketch for site specific design. The portfolio is the focus of the site, placed dead center. Comprehensive contact information and a listing of recent process blog posts act as a permanent footer. Bridging the gap between the "finished" portfolio and "work-in-progress" process becomes an important focus of the site with complete and seamless integration of my online identity developing as the long-term goal.

July 2nd, Philosophy - The permanent footer receives an addition of a second blog listing, which contains writings pertaining to the philosophy behind my work. The initial essays included were previously written as application essays for my MBA program, which focuses on Sustainable Business Practices.

August 2nd, Augmented Reality - Efforts to more actively integrate my online identity lead to the addition of social media tools directly on the site. Google +1, Facebook Recommend, and Twitter Tweet and Follow buttons are all included. This development point marks the site's layout transition from fixed to dynamically scalable. My sights are set on full-bleed portfolio imagery, not to mention the complete banishment of flash, as the site matures.

The full-screen view below was captured using @GoogleChrome in Max OS X Lion. At this point, the site is cross-browser compliant; however, due to the continued use of flash, dynamic scaling behaves differently depending upon browser and operating system.

August 26th, Business Card - Credit for the minimalist design surrounding the email address on the front of the card goes to @borismus. For this version, I have added my site logo to Boris' original conceptual design.

The back of the card contains a minorly abstracted QR-Code containing basic vCard information as well as my mobile number. I have embedded a more thorough vCard at the end of my résumé. Moving forward, I will include digital pointers such as these within any material work. For example, a QR-Code on a project detail page within a printed portfolio that sends the reader directly to the project's specific page on the site. The opportunity to blur the lines between the physical and digital is quite intriguing. Reversing that thought process, I am also interested in creating each individual QR-Code from physical models and/or original imagery as independent design projects.

Next up... mobile compliance, replacing all remaining flash components with HTML5 & CSS3. The writing of accompanying text for each portfolio piece will also be included during this phase– at this point, the portfolio exists in perpetual tweak mode.