September 14, 2008
Last Spring, Marco Ventura told me that he wanted to have his illustration portfolio on-line and asked me to design it. Marco lives in Milan but his reputation and clientele are international. I met him when I was assigning illustration for the Time magazine feature Spotlight. (Before I knew Marco, I was unfamiliar with Italians answering the phone “Pronto.”) He had digital files of all his work and sent them to me by email. I made my presentations to him using Skype.
Marco wanted a very minimal site with a white background and images that were not too large. Like many of the artists and photographers I have dealt with, he was concerned with… people downloading his work and using it without his permission. This is difficult because if you can view it, you can do a screen grab of it. By keeping his art relatively small, we limit the size it can be reused without pixelation.
I have done a number of portfolios and found a new javascript User Interface (UI) at Google Code that I wanted to use. I think it is quite successful and Marco is very pleased. See it at www.venturamarco.com. For the NEWS portion of his site, I added a blog. Marco seems tentative about blogging. I have worked with hundreds of illustrators and some can use the computer as just another tool, and some remain what I like to call “analog.” But my goal is to give my clients the capability of editing their sites. If they have/get the skillz.
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Kenneth's bookshelf: read
Berger wrote this while Picasso was still alive. Quite interesting to read why this Marxist critic thinks the communist artist failed.
First in the trilogy and my favorite. He reminds me of Louise Ehrdrich. I wrote and told him so.
