For my design deck, I am going to focus it on myself in terms of job application, rather than basing it solely on the major project. I have seen a lot of jobs available remotely, so feel like having a design deck that explains me as a person and what I can contribute would be more beneficial than just focusing on one project.
Notes from lecture;
- A design deck can be a catalog, brochure, or PowerPoint
- Design decks consist of relevant work for an employer or an artbook style for the project
- Try not to use more than 2-3 projects
- Focus on visuals, less text
- Legibility is a priority
Examples from previous years
- very bright and vibrant, context is easy to see and the background is illustrative but not distracting
- has included contact details
- screenshots are very clear, I really like brushes inclusion on page 7
- does a technical breakdown of her rigging
- film links and portfolio at the end
- Nice illustrative first page but background for other pages seem really bland
- Environment pictures hould be larger, no more than 4 per page, same with animation pages
- Unused material seems like a pointless filler?
- End page is nice but white titles against water are hard to read
- Really like the title font, cyperpunk vibes, digital
- Background is detailed but not distracting
- Font is too difficult to read for me
- Different characters each having their own page with different screenshots is nice
- Would have preferred larger screenshots for environemnts
- The pages at the end don’t work for me, I would have preferred a seperate design deck for personal rather than together
- Artbook is really nice but not convinced its necessary with such large screenshots in the press kit
- Feel like the text looks messy as the alignment seems off
- Specifications are good but maybe in the wrong place
- Last screenshot should fil lthe page, looks like its missing something
My Design Deck
- Title
- Table of Contents
- About Me
- Major Project Photo
- Major Project Details
- 1920s Photo
- 1920s details
- Haunted Mansion Photo
- Haunted Mansion details
- How to contact
My Draft
In my design deck draft I experimented with a vertical and horizontal layout in A4 size. The vertical layout works better for writing text and looks like a traditional booklet, but as most of my environments and videos are in a horizontal frame it is more difficult to display images. I like the horizontal layout better as I think the images are better with a full page screen. I need to experiment more with the images to see should I keep a full page layout or try to squeeze in multiple images. In terms of the text I like the text size and the font is CF Wild West Font, found on FontSpace. This font works great as a title and highlights my main project as the biggest piece of work I’ve done. For my final draft I may need additional space for pictures of my main project.