We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Julia Hell about their original and creative Portfolio Website design work. Julia Hell is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original portfolio website works.
Julia Hell ("JH") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Eyesbound Portfolio Website. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
JH : The Design aims for monochromatic simplicity to support the content.
JH : I wanted to set a strong emphasis on the imagery and the design to be timeless and adaptive to the content.
JH : Step by step developing it with some more features as well as developing more print solutions, like authenticity cards for buyers of the artworks and a catalogue.
JH : Designing it was a process of 3 weeks.
JH : I was completely free in the design process. After the research period I decided, that the imagery has to be the key element which the design should wrap around.
JH : I keep on producing it myself.
JH : It is one of my first web designs. When I was asked wether I would like to design the page, I thought it might be a nice way to gain experience in the web area.
JH : No, nothing in particular. Though I am strongly influenced by designers like Dieter Rahms or the Bauhaus era, where the reflection on essentials was significant for the design.
JH : Photographers as well as people interested in Photography.
JH : The usage of the website is very intuitive. The focus lies on the artistic works of the photographer. The design is simple and easy to use, it works on an international level without translation into other languages.
JH : The name was given by my client. It stands for the necessity to keep your eyes open and to expect the next motive in everything.
JH : I designed the website in Adobe photoshop.
JH : I had no restrictions designing the page, there was no other briefing than »I need a redesign for my website, can you do that?«. That was unique.
JH : My client is also the programmer I worked with for the realization.
JH : Technology plays a main role in this design. Since it is a website, it should be accessible through all devices and therefore needs to be responsive.
JH : I went online and had a look at many websites with similar content. The design is the outcome of my personal analysis as a user. Some of the portfolio pages I visited were either complicated to use or somehow standard, like a tumblr. I wanted the monitor be the only frame / limitation instead of a container on the website.
JH : Image sizes online and loading them can be tricky and of course cross browser compatibility of some of the features is not given, because of lacking support by older browsers.
JH : I received an e-mail by your Executive Account Manager, introducing the competition and that they saw my design and it might be a good idea to submit it.
JH : To stand behind your work.
