Designosaurus » portfolio http://www.mrgilldesign.com/blog Matt Gill's Design Blog Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:37:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Portfolio progress http://www.mrgilldesign.com/blog/2010/11/portfolio-progress/ http://www.mrgilldesign.com/blog/2010/11/portfolio-progress/#comments Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:22:02 +0000 Matt Gill http://www.mrgilldesign.com/blog/?p=252 Is really slow.  I think this will be my most well though-out portfolio so far, I guess as it should be since I’m in my 4th year and have done this a few times.  It feels like I have so much extra work to put into each of my previous projects before they’re portfolio worthy.  I guess that’s what happens when you’re in school and constantly learning, by the time you finish a project all the work from the beginning of it is no longer up to par.

This little guy (and two more of the robot in different positions of transformation) took waaaaay too long it seems. I still a have some rather intense sketching I plan on doing for my power tool and the E-bike project. This on top of our current projects at Wuppertal (which thankfully haven’t heated up too much yet). With any luck I’ll have a project or two pretty much done by Thanksgiving and then get the rest done by Xmas. I’ll try to post on progress and I’ll get up a link to my WIP once there’s something to actually look at.  Feedback is always welcome and for all you other design dorks, how are your folios going?

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I command thee to comment.

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