by Alex Hogrefe | May 29, 2016 | Portfolio Vol. 4 |
You can spend a ton of time perfecting your portfolio, but all of that means nothing if you choose a bad printer. That is why I have spent the last several weeks testing out many online print-on-demand services. I wrote a post on Print-on-demand printers several years...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 15, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center |
As I rework some of the spreads for my upcoming Portfolio Volume 4, I find myself needing to develop several new illustrations to fill in some missing information or to help better tell the story. However, due to time limitations and the amount of images I need to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Apr 16, 2016 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Uncategorized |
I have been working on some of the different design elements of Portfolio Volume 4 and this week I am focusing on the cover design. I wrote a post a few years ago on the cover design for Portfolio Volume 3 seen here. Not much has changed with the way that I am...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 27, 2016 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
The Cliff retreat spreads are underway. With most of the imagery generated, I had enough content to start thinking about how the pages would be laid out and how the story would be told. As with a lot of my layouts, the styles range quite a bit from spread to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 6, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
I wanted to have some fun with this image and create something that conveyed the scale of this project. Sort of a grand finale image. I have already generated a lot of close-up vignettes, but nothing really showing the project its totality. I chose a view that would...