Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Use the scrollbar to see an
unfolding stream of work.
This delightful piece has
distinct segments that
loosely correspond to the
way you would see the
piece evolve onscreen.
By offloading his wide variety and enormous output of work to other sites and
using the portfolio website as a place for polished, completed projects only, Scobie
makes explicit in the virtual world what was once standard practice in the analog one:
segregating the "cream of the cream" in a portfolio, while inviting Scobie fans who
want to go deeper to visit his artist's studio—in this case, Flickr and other self-pub-
lishing addresses. Everything is available somewhere, but the audience can't confuse
concept and completion.
Future plans
As of this writing, Scobie's site is very new, and he has no immediate plans to
change it. As Scobie says, “Before my current website I had a Flash-based site, which I
felt restricted the way in which I could display work. My current site was built using
HTML and CSS, which allows me to show off my work at its best.”
The loose breakout by chronology makes it easy to update, and as recent work
gets older, it takes its place as the first-seen work in
the Archive. Because Scobie uses self-publishing sites
for work of the moment, he feels no pressure to make
his portfolio site bigger or update it more than once a
month.
My website is what clients look
through. In that sense it has been
very
successful
in
getting
me
work.
—Will Scobie
