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Nice alternative to your standard portfolio. Kyle Standing makes use of Linked in, Twitter, Delicious, Facebook & Google Maps (showing all his favourite locations in NY).

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Posted: 28th May 2009
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What do you think?

    Dan
    28th May 2009
    11:08 am

  1. Not an entirely new idea, but fair play for having the bravery to do something a bit different.

    Requires a bit of patience to see his work though as you navigate to other sites which is a bit irksome

    Overall i like it though – it looks nice


    2. Kristian
    28th May 2009
    11:35 am

  2. call me old skool!, but i’d rather be able to see some work up front, easy to use etc…. and i dinnae know the dude so why would i wanna add him as a facebook pal!!!!!!!!!!

    craziness if u ask me!!!!


    3. Pete
    28th May 2009
    11:47 am

  3. I agree with Kristian if I’m honest. It’s similar to flash sites that take ages to load! People just can’t be arsed to wait or have to look round for the work, which let’s be honest, is usually the main reason you’d visit the site in the first place. I appreciate the idea but I do prefer the portfolio sites that are ‘so last year’.


    4. Ryan
    28th May 2009
    12:23 pm

  4. It strikes me as a very American approach. A lot of American designers seem to put an emphasis on all the different social networking platforms, almost more than their work.

    I’m with Kristian on this too.


    5. Michael
    28th May 2009
    12:43 pm

  5. does anyone know what type is being used here?


    6. Daniel
    28th May 2009
    1:10 pm

  6. Yeah, I’m with Kristian too. Why should I do all the work to find samples of your stuff? I’m a busy man. Well, quite busy. When I’m not on Twitter.

    Looks nice though.


    7. Glenn
    28th May 2009
    1:20 pm

  7. Yupp work samples are a must and they are a pain to go through on his site. But it’s nice to show some alternatives to indexhibit ;)


    8. Neil
    28th May 2009
    1:29 pm

  8. Surely a portfolio is a portfolio of your work. I don’t care where I can find his work if I can be bothered to look for it – I just want it put in front of me in a simple, logical manner.


    9. Dan
    28th May 2009
    1:46 pm

  9. I think its a clever idea, there was another company that did this, but somehow manaaged to retain their branding and navigation in the corner of the sites you get re-durected to. That helped to cement the idea in a way that worked.


    10. Daniel
    28th May 2009
    1:56 pm

  10. Dan – are you thinking of Modernista? http://www.modernista.com


    11. Dan
    28th May 2009
    2:51 pm

  11. thats the one!


    12. flxb
    28th May 2009
    3:18 pm

  12. Michael, I think it’s stag by Christian Schwartz

    http://vllg.com/Schwartzco/Stag/mudTyper+Weights/


    13. Kyle
    28th May 2009
    4:26 pm

  13. Nice to see some people interested on my page.
    I actually agree with everyone. In fact I wish I had time to design and update a portfolio website with samples and everything… this little thing took me 4 hours to make it and it updates itself.

    I guess that’s not too bad!


    14. mike
    28th May 2009
    5:01 pm

  14. So this site is completely useless. I think pegging “folio sites” as a thing of the past and then not having any useable content on his own site, he’s completely missed the mark. I have no idea what Kyle does, nor do I care now.


    15. Jeff
    28th May 2009
    6:32 pm

  15. Oh please, social networking based portfolios are what’s so last year. Heck, Modernista was two years ago, wasn’t it? Pretty enough, I guess.


    16. Alex
    28th May 2009
    9:53 pm

  16. Michael. might be wrong, but I think he’s using Soho Pro. Pretty, especially when mixing up the weights!


    17. Daniel
    29th May 2009
    10:00 am

  17. Kyle – I think it\’s got a lot going for it, but it could perhaps benefit from one large teaser image, perhaps one that changes frequently and/or randomly.


    18. character1
    9th Jun 2009
    10:19 pm

  18. I get what everyone’s saying but Kyle’s site still looks nice.

    Modernista is pretty cool too though!


    19. Alex
    10th Jun 2009
    10:24 am

  19. I think everyone needs to bear in mind that this guy isn’t looking for work, so having a huge showcase of what he’s done isn’t as big a priority.

    This page serves him as more of an online presence, and having links to his professional as well as social activities is a nice idea.

    I think the site does the job really well if you remember what it’s trying to do. Oh, and Jeff & Mike – your criticism would carry more weight if you were prepared to link to your own sites.


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