I joined Behance 3 years ago after hearing about it through a Creative Director I was working with. He found amazing illustrators and designers there, so I figured that Behance attracts good clients with design taste.
As an Art Director, I now use Behance specifically to showcase my illustration work. Yet, I get job offers that involve more than just illustration, such as graphic design, identity design, motion graphics, etc.
[Home Wall, featured on Illustration Served]
I think that success in finding work comes from the way we can categorize our work by creative fields. Being featured in the Behance gallery is also always a big push for me. I get much recognition from that, and the emails start raining in.
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This week we updated the design and user experience of the “Extra Info” section that users complete when publishing a new project. You can now easily enter and select the software, hardware, materials, and online applications that you used in the project. We have also created a shortcut button (the star next to the search box) that saves your common tools for quick selection in future projects.
In our effort to help organize the creative world’s work, the data will prove extremely helpful in the future! Imaging searching for projects in a particular country that used a particular type of camera or version of software! The possibilities are endless. The more information you provide, the easier it will be for people to find your work through search.
This section exists in: Projects –> Settings –> Extra Info
Behance’s search results have actually been what has gotten me work. A high school in San Francisco contacted me to use a logo I did for a West Side Story production. I happily accepted but refused payment.
[Logos / 06-09 on the Behance Network]
It was great to see the logo get a second life and be used again. They were nice enough to send me a t-shirt, playbill and postcard. They also had their art students reproduce the logo in chalk outside their theater.
I’ve also had several other random e-mails asking about my work on Behance. I have one simple tip. Name your files appropriately and in the right context. Use the captions as well to help explain your work.
Connect with Adam Neff on his Behance profile.
Our Behance Ambassadors host monthly Meetups in cities around the world. If there’s one in your city, show up!
From a recent meetup in Malaysia.
March 25th at 6:00 PM
Selected Graphic design from Europe
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 26 at 10:00 PM
Pto de Contato
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Wednesday, April 13th at 8:00
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This past spring I graduated from the University of Kansas, and while I was in school, my professor told me about Behance. She told me it was a great site to showcase my design, and give creatives, that may not normally see my work, the opportunity to view it at their leisure. In addition, my professor noted it was a great way to promote my work, get my name out there quickly, and that it would be easy to keep up to date.
So, I created a profile and posted my portfolio. I received lots of great feedback and was excited to be able to share my link with professionals, friends and family.
[Branding for Hello Again]
A week after graduation, I received an email from Engine Interactive, an interactive design agency in Seattle, Washington. They said they had viewed my portfolio on Behance and were looking for a contract designer. They were interested in conducting a formal interview with me, and I’m so thankful that Behance helped me get my foot in the door. I replied that I would love to talk, and my phone interview took place the next day. The interview went really well. Even though we were several miles apart, I was able to walk them through my portfolio, project by project, on Behance, just like I would do with my portfolio, in person. After our discussion, they decided to hire me as a full time designer, not a contract position, and I have been working with Engine ever since!
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It’s been a week and a half since Japan suffered a devastating earthquake and tsunami; in the wake of this tragic disaster, the world has been rallying behind Japan by providing aid and donations. The creative community, too, has been responding. We’ve seen a surge of inspiring, touching, and emotional creative work posted in response to this tragedy.
We’ve put together a collection of this work so the Behance community can follow and support this creative response to crisis. We’re proud to see that Behance creatives have devoted themselves to creating thoughtful, emotionally-charged work in honor of Japan. Take a look at the latest Japan-inspired projects on the Behance Network.
Please add to our list by posting in the comments with creative work or information about Japan outreach by other creatives that you’ve found. It goes without saying that Japan needs our help. Please considering donating to one of the organizations below, or buying merchandise whose proceeds go to relief funds.
Text to Donate: text REDCROSS to 90999 (each text will provide $10)
Donate Via Facebook Causes Campaign
Donate via iTunes
Creative Ways to Help:
Architecture for Humanity – Donate to Japanese Reconstruction Effort
Buy the Help Japan Poster by Signalnoise (Proceeds to Red Cross)
Buy the Help Japan Poster from W+K Studio (Proceeds to Red Cross)
Buy the T-shirt Design from Hide + Seek Clothing Relief (Proceeds to Save the Children)
Get involved in the Google Crisis Center (includes Person Finder)
Other Organizations to Donate To:
Habitat for Humanity
International Rescue Committee
United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund
A few of us from Behance went down to Austin for South By Southwest’s Interactive Festival over the weekend. We had a chance to stop by the pop-up shop featuring the t-shirt designs of Behance Network member Glenn Jones (glennz), a freelance graphic designer and illustration from New Zealand. Fun fact: Glen from NZ = GLENNZ. Get it? We got a few photos while making our way through the pop-up shop. His t-shirts are fantastic, we highly recommending snapping up a few!
Glennz on Behance
Sarah Rapp (Community Manager) and Jackie Balzer (Senior Developer)
Glenn Jones and Chris Henry (CTO)
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I joined the Behance Network in the summer of 2009 when I was wrapping up a design internship in Atlanta. I found the site when searching for inspiration for a few different projects that I was tasked with. I found such an overwhelming database of top-notch design that, once I finished my work, I requested to join so that I could submit my own work for critique to a community with such high standards and expectations of its users.
[Start Atlanta Branding]
Behance grew in importance to me not only by providing this community, but by affecting my pace and focus as a creative professional. Scott Belsky’s “Making Ideas Happen” had a big impact on the way I work. I even created branding materials for a “Plywood Presents” event in Atlanta where Scott spoke about the book. These conference designs were my first project to ever be featured on Behance.
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Behance member Ziarekenya Smith’s typographical portrait of Michael Jordan take words, phrases, and stats about the legend and crafts them into Jordan’s likeness.
The image has been circulating around for a few months, but picked up speed in the heat of basketball season with a mention on a Yahoo! Sports NBA blog last week.
Visit Ziarekenya’s Behance portfolio for more digital art and photo manipulation projects.
[Yahoo! Sports blog post]
In case you didn’t know, we have a kickass street-team of agents around the world representing Behance by planning events for the creative community, and acting as a local resource and lifeline to Behance in some of the biggest cities in the world. Recently, we added three new Ambassadors. And here they are:
Los Angeles, USA: Michelle LeClerc
Michelle LeClerc drew all over a perfectly good chair with a BIC pen when she was 5. Though critics agreed the improvement was unnecessary, they applauded her creativity & enrolled her in art classes. Michelle now occupies herself as a freelance Art Director + Designer in Los Angeles, where she’s managed to leave her furniture alone. She works with a wide range of clients from entertainment to retail, specializing in fashion, music & culture.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands: Karisa Jansen
Karisa Jansen is finishing up her studies in Advertising, Marketing, & Communications. She works part-time for Creative Agency edsonwilliams, who represents talented photographers and illustrations in hubs all over Europe. On the side, she organizes “Wednesday Dinners” in Amsterdam, a project bringing local people together in a comfortable, casual setting, allowing busy creatives to meet new people (locals or city newbies).
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Istanbul, Turkey: Gökhun Güneyhan
Visual arts and interactive media are what makes Go khun tick. He was just 12 when he started to teach himself web-developing. After years of self-teaching, he now designs for OgilvyOne (though his formal studies were in Political Science). Gokhun’s hunger to discover the unknown and learn something new each day drive him to travel as much as possible, where he finds himself inspired by different custom, ideas and behaviors.
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