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This design was the winning entry for Applied Arts Student Awards Contest for the Digital Media category.

Creative Idea
When it comes to portfolio, I trow all the rules out about pleasing the viewer. For instance:
- the viewer is on dial-up
- resolution, etc.
I really like designing to please myself on this one because technically, I'm the client.

Now, the idea was to create something, a theme for my 2006 Portfolio review at AiTo. So I came up with the term 'my story is my concept'. Since 'story' is the key word in the phrase, I decided to go with the 'book' layout. Yes, it's not the most unique thing and that was a challenge. I've seen tons of sites and templates with this layout so my challenge was to make a seeminly 'tacky' style unique.

In my personal and humbled opionon I did that because the look and feel of the design is different from most. It's not flat and just uses the flip page animation effect, it looks like a binder book with a nice 2D feel.

The colours used are colours I really was in love with at the time and the 3D type, done in illustrator, is something inspired by illustration elite, :devshinibinary:. It's really alot of experimentation going on here. Since it's my first flash portfolio, I'm surprised it got so much attention.

Look out for the next version of the site in the future.

Credits
Flash animation and scripting by *pixelbudah
Copy editing by Khadija Benn
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Awards
Applied Arts Annual Student Awards: Interactive Design, 2007
American Design Awards: Interactive Design, 2007
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:iconjk89:
nice work. I really like "Story" text. Maybe try to do bright version to compare with this version. :)

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I like it, one of the bests of yours. :+fav:

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:iconhellyea:
agreed, a bit too dark :)
:iconblissart:
Awesome, as I already told in the journal!
lol I was curious to know abt. this, when I faved this [link] way back!!!

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a favorite definitly a amazing idea! and wonderful website :D

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I wish I could do such a great stuff in flash

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