paperbased portfolio - Humphrey Weightman

Humphrey Weightman

For a college project we have been asked to evaluate eight portfolios four paper based and four digital based.

A graphic designer named Humphrey Weightman did a talk for us at college on Wednesday the 23rd all about his graphic design portfolio. He talked about the start of his career, by telling us that he used to be a musician and that he built contacts that would help him later on in his graphic design work like when he designed album covers for Anne Briggs, Nicky James, Ian Manuel and The McPeake Family.

He showed us a lot about the design elements and technologies effect on the processes and print for graphic design, for example he talked about how in the design processes it would take him a couple of weeks to fix a printing mistake because of the time it would take to send something to be validated and then resending it to be printed, before emails.

He also showed us a lot of his work and different thoughts of design for them for example one of his works I would of called simplistic and sort of boring but because it was for information it work extremely well. He did talk very design technical some of the time going on about the font by using the technical name for it, which went over my head but I guess when you've been doing graphic design for as long as he has you would do that to.

What I would take from his talk is sometimes simple designs are better than fancy designs as long as it fits the expectation for the project and that we should embrace new thing that help us instead of getting in a routine.

Humphrey's portfolio was a little Confusion at first as I didn't know how to classifies his work as it was made digitally but his work was paper-based.