Yo-folio>> Updated

Nice work! All I can say is that I want to see more of you sketches and thought process. You obviously have decent sketching skill, why not showcase it?

it’s cool…

updated and added a couple of things… still working on it here and there…

Yo, i have great respect for ya man,

BUT your website doesnt cut it for me. I feel you are too much into your designs to distinguish what is crap and what is good. generally it is advised to leave your weaker stuff out of your folio, in this case you should scrub out the whole transportation section of your site, and just stick to shoes.

like what others have said, add someproject descriptions, to me its just all pretty pictures (or not so pretty) so far, and the site looks like something a fresh graduate would produce.

i expect more from you considering you always have somethin to say about others works. Now i think its time u actually got your act together and do something on a more professional level.

Cheers mate, keep it up!!!

I’m diggin the new shoes Yo. Nice stuff.

:wink:

Yo, great stuff, as always. You really have an amazing talent for design, and particularly the product stuff! But I gotta agree with the other poster…ditch the auto section…it’s not your strong point. (And I understand, you’re an employed designer, this website is just a personal side thing…you don’t really care what I have to say :smiley: )

I’d love to see a couple of the projects blown out to show more of a process. Sketches, CAD work, fancy CAD renderings, etc. Personally, I’m more intrigued by some of the projects you worked on in you consulting days vs. the shoe stuff, but hey, that’s just me.

And If this is a design portfolio site, I’d ditch the personal photo on the intro page…too pretentious for my taste, but again, to each his own

My immediate take on the site is the Apple navigation. Not sur eif I like the obvious appropriation of their menu. The content/drawings are pretty good however.

Oh cool, you linked to Josh Spear’s site! He gave a very enthusiastic presentation at the Midwest IDSA conference this year… had some very nice ideas!

I like the site- I’ll have to explore it a bit tomorrow when I should be working!

Thanks. Updated it this morning, still doing work based on some of your feedback. You might have to refresh your browser a few times to clear the cache.

Got rid of the blatent rip off apple navigation. Added a couple of pics of the shoes on people. Moved the pic of me deeper into the site, off the main page. Added a sketches page, a links page and separated the footwear from the products.

The links on the links page don’t work yet and I will be adding more in the products section, as requested. I don’t plan on blowing any of the projects out with process, briefs, or methodology, only because this is more of a sample site, with teasers, that stuff is best shown in person I think. Its too in depth to do it justice on a hack, poorly put together site!

http://michaeld2lo.spymac.com/

Anyway, as always, thoughts, comments, feedback…

Cool update…much more powerful opening the site to images of your work! Cool picture with Jordan, BTW. Certainly understand about not bogging things down with tedious explanations, process, blah, blah, blah

Thanks, I’m tryin’! The feedback has been great. Good ideas. I did add a little philosophy blurb that kind of sums up my approach in response to your suggestion.

well you know what i think buddy dont even really need to comment… One small thing though any chance you can increase the image size of your shoe stuff? dunno if its my screen but sketches etc look a bit small, just nit picking really though, sweet job bru. (Thought you wore glasses though man? Or did you take em off for the ‘shoot’?)

Peace

The site is nice- really simple navigation - no crazy flash- no long loads.

If I were to change anything it would be:

  1. Click to Hi-res images of sketches / completed work for some or all of the projects
  2. Transportation is abreviated for some reason on the navigation- doesn’t look like it needs to be.
  3. Logo on the front page looks kind of big.

Spectacular work!

Looking good so far… very nice teaser images when you load each page, just enough variety in each of them to show off quite a diverse set of skills. You’re gonna hate me for this one… but I just noticed you left one of the "o"s out of Philosophy! (In case no one else caught that)

thanks! No one else caught that (that would tell me anyway, kind of like coming home at the end of the day to find your fly down, how long was it down, no way to know)

Yo, nice work with the website. I noticed some people tend to get to carried away with adding to many details to their site, but I believe the minimalist effect and simplicity of yours still gets the point across well. I also noticed you and your brother, I believe, use the same logo. Can you do this? Is this just a family thing? Just wondering. Also, it’s always nice that you can take the constructive critisim so well, it seems today everyone’s ego tend to get in the way and don’t take critiques so well.

Thanks.

On the logo, Idunno… I originally drew up the logo (which I admittedly aped from the N64 logo, cause I love N64… Mario Cart, c’mon!), and my kid brother “appropirated” it, which is cool with me, since we have kind of a collective brain… but do you think it is uncool to share the logo? We do have the same initials…

No, thats cool I guess with the logo. It seems as though you and your bro are both the creative types, so I just thought you two would have different approaches to the “individual” logo. I noticed yours was similar to the N64 logo like you said, but I just don’t feel like it’s giving off your true style that you show in all of your sketches/projects, thats all.

yo,

i’m not usually the type to criticise people.
but im afriad to say that you are a big big ‘wanker’…

sorry mate

thanks for the feedback.