I’m a graphic design major entering my senior year in college and have a background in fine arts, also. I want to create an online portfolio to display my work when potential employers as to see it, but my design professor is not very helpful. What program should I use to create a good portfolio? I’m not familiar with flash. I have taken an html coding class so I know how to build a web page and site, but these basic web pages often look cheap. Any advice would be very helpful.
Not knowing exactly what your skill set is with web design, there isn’t a whole lot I can do for you myself. Just keep it simple. All you need is a page with short blurb about yourself and your background, a page with your actual work, and a spot to list your contact information if people want to get more information. You can take a look at my portfolio site (that hasn’t been updated in 2 years – shame on me) for starters.
http://www.mattbruning.com
Otherwise, here are some links of some fantastic portfolio websites that should get you motivated:
http://www.portfoliodesign.org/portfolio.html
http://creattica.com/css/latest-designs
I’m a graphic design major entering my senior year in college and have a background in fine arts, also. I want to create an online portfolio to display my work when potential employers as to see it, but my design professor is not very helpful. What program should I use to create a good portfolio? I’m not familiar with flash. I have taken an html coding class so I know how to build a web page and site, but these basic web pages often look cheap. Any advice would be very helpful.
Not knowing exactly what your skill set is with web design, there isn’t a whole lot I can do for you myself. Just keep it simple. All you need is a page with short blurb about yourself and your background, a page with your actual work, and a spot to list your contact information if people want to get more information. You can take a look at my portfolio site (that hasn’t been updated in 2 years – shame on me) for starters.
http://www.mattbruning.com
Otherwise, here are some links of some fantastic portfolio websites that should get you motivated:
http://www.portfoliodesign.org/portfolio.html
http://creattica.com/css/latest-designs
Also, what are the best places to visit?
Do you think Germans are proud or mostly ashamed of building designs that relate to the Nazi Berlin era?
Berlin is wonderful. It has a lot of old buildings, and a lot, if not to say almost all of them, were partly destroyed in the war and rebuild in their former style. I remember walking through Berlin with a group of friends, all German, except one girl, who was american. We walked through the city all day, and just suddenly she said she wondered at all these round/roughly round spots in the buildings (all of them about thumb-ball sized, and basically not higher than nine feet up from the ground). If we had any idea what they are. We all looked at her kind of dumbfounded, and pretty much all answered: "Repaired bullet holes, of course. What else?", all at the same time. She asked us how we knew, and no one could really give her an answer. It was just a logical thing to us. She looked kind of funny, and about two minutes later, as we had moved on, she said softly to me and another friend that in Europe, history had a freaky way of sneaking up on a person. While she had never thought of something like scars of a war on buildings (because there are no buildings like that on mass left in the US, basically), it had been just absolutely logic for all of us Germans. I can’t say that I am ashamed of the Nazi-era buidings in Berlin or Germany (since I’m living in one, that would be kind of freaky, too). I realize that after the war, people were happy about everything that was still standing, seeing as numerous refugees from the east needed shelter, as well as all the people who had fled the big cities. So I see why they are still around. But they send a shiver down my spine. The bigger and more prestigious, the bigger the shiver.
On the other hand, I take joy in seeing what is left of the old places, the original designs, when I go into a house that was built before the war. Like the old tiles, the carved wooden hand-rails, the stucco on the ceilings, if they are still there. A genuine turn of the century glass plate with original sand-blasting, the only one to have survived until today, out of a 6 by 2 feet glass window made out of glass plates about the size of two playing cards. The creaking wooden floors and the huge old doors.
Best places to visit, I think, are any areas of Berlin where people LIVE. Like Moabit, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg. Basically, just keep your eyes open, and you will see it. There is still al ot left of the old stuff, if you know what you have to look for. I would say, Berlin is perfect for that. It has a lot more to offer on that topic than, for instance, Munich, which is all poshed up (you can still see bullet holes in all the facades around the University library, though).
All in all, I’d say the Nazi era has left some scars in the bigger cities, but either the war took care of them, or they have been integrated well enough to not be TOO obvious to the casual observer. Once you know they are there, things are a litle different. At least for me, they are. Don’t know about others.
I got the impression that Architects were paid for the service of designing buildings to specifications and to help supervise the details of it’s construction. I suppose that with residential homes, some may maintain a library of designs, and offer detailed plans at a modest price. You could pick up one of those 150 Dream Home Floor Plans books to see what their pricing schedule is for the detailed plans.
I don’t know if they also license the right to build to the plans or not. I know that the Weekender packet sailing yacht plans included a license to build one and only one such yacht to the plans and they shut down a company that was building the boats in a factory to the plans.
The average weight per square foot for steel building is around = 40 to 50 pounds per ft^2
I already have a Graphic design company, Philippi Design.
Should I work out of my home, as I have been, or should I have a building built?
Or, rent some office space in someone ELSE’S building? Don’t you think it would be cheaper than erecting a new building? The basic question to ask yourself is, "Can I AFFORD to work my business anywhere OTHER than my home?"
What you might want to consider is whether working out of a home studio/office has any DISadvatages over opening an outside office. For my business, I RARELY see clients here. I, either go out to meet them, or we communicate electronicly, via phone, email or other methods. While my budget can operate in the black because of my minimal expenses, the cost of leasing office space, here in Silicon Valley, would be way too prohibitive for my business.
The fact that you had to ask this question, causes me to think that you haven’t been "in business" very long. I suggest you keep working from home until you’ve gained enough business accumen to be able to make such decisions on your own.
Good luck.
I want to know which software is used for cold formed steel (pre engineered) building designing. Also which code(AISC, BS, DIN) are integrated into it.
In our part of the world STADPRO software IS being used predominantly for the steel structure analysis work. This is complied with AISC Code.
Using today’s construction technology, is there a limit to how high a skyscraper (can be built).
As the height goes up, the size of the columns at the base goes up. At some point, the first floor becomes solid steel or concrete. So there is some absolute limit, but that is a long way off, like around 10,000 feet. Other more practical limits come into play sooner, such as elevator space, which has been mentioned, and bearing capacity of the bedrock, and also economic considerations. Some engineers believe a 5,000 foot building is possible. Whether it is practical or desirable or affordable is another question.
Using today’s construction technology, is there a limit to how high a skyscraper (can be built).
As the height goes up, the size of the columns at the base goes up. At some point, the first floor becomes solid steel or concrete. So there is some absolute limit, but that is a long way off, like around 10,000 feet. Other more practical limits come into play sooner, such as elevator space, which has been mentioned, and bearing capacity of the bedrock, and also economic considerations. Some engineers believe a 5,000 foot building is possible. Whether it is practical or desirable or affordable is another question.
I’m supposed to do a report on Building Technologies in Sustainable Design but I’m not too clear of what I’m supposed to write. So if someone can point me to the right direction for me to do this, that would be great!
Sustainable design as in Sustainable Architecture/Building =)
You need a better definition before you can start.