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最近比较忙，但是我还是挤出一点时间来创建两个新的页面。在作品集中我已经转移到一个不同的项目中，这个项目中我想稍微改变一下风格。到现在为止，大部分作品集排列的非常紧凑，图之间相互紧挨着。我很难接受“留白”页面。因为我想在较少的页面中加进尽可能多的信息。这样问题接着也来了，我该怎样完成层级和避免制图之间的相互冲突。

解决这个问题的一个办法就是使用“少即是多”的方式。简化到极致让我感到不舒服，但是同时我发现简化的图象设计看上很漂亮，给人清爽的感觉。现在难的是要选择哪些内容需要呈现，哪些不需要呈现。如果页面中有空白处，我马上开始考虑我在这里放点什么合适。不知道什么原因，我害怕要是页面上没有很多内容，就像是这个页面设计没有花费努力或时间一样。另一方面，在设计中成功呈现最少的图象会给人以舒服的感觉，能非常清晰地切入主题。

话虽那样说，我仍然想尝试将一些页面合在一起，这样就不会需要任何渲染时间，只需在PS上也会花费最少的时间。网站上有许多关于如何制作抽象渲染图的教程，但是基本找不到如何在作品集或者展板上使用这种风格的渲染图的教程。最重要的是，我想看看自己能否让这些页面和我其他的项目页面一样，信息量足并且具有表现力。

Life has been busy lately. However, I have managed to squeeze in a little time to create two new spreads. I have moved to a different project in the portfolio and I wanted to change up the style a little. Much of this portfolio so far has been very graphically intense meaning I rendered or post processed every image on the page. It’s very hard for me to accept any “white space”. This way of thinking comes from the fact that I am trying to fit as much information into as few pages as possible. The problem then becomes how to manage the hierarchy and avoid having the graphics all compete against one another.
One way to solve this is by taking the “less is more” route. Thinking minimally is outside my comfort zone but at the same time I find minimalist graphic design beautiful and refreshing. The difficulty comes from having to choose what to present and what not to present. If there is white space left on the page, I instantly start thinking what can I fit in there. For some reason, I have this fear that if there isn’t a lot on the page then it may appear like not much effort or time was put into the design. On the other hand, presenting minimal graphics successfully could show a certain comfort in the design and clearly drive home the concept.
With that said, I also wanted to explore putting some spreads together that didn’t require any rendering time and minimal Photoshop time. This site has many tutorials that look at abstract illustrations (such as this and this) yet there is very little on using these types of illustrations in portfolios or presentation boards. More than anything, I wanted to see if I could get these pages to be as informative and expressive as some of my other project pages.

在前言页中我使用了一张很大胆的图。你可能认出了这张图，因为它出自这篇博文，将其颜色褪掉了。留下的唯一颜色部分就是加亮区的文字。这个颜色同样被运用到了下一页。这张图像有着漂亮的线条，它不需要剔除太多元素就可以吸引读者。

With the introductory page, I started out with a bold image. You may recognize this image since it was pulled from this post, with the colors desaturated. The only color comes from the highlighted text which also spills over into the next spread. The graphic itself has nice lines and draws the viewer in without giving away too much.

这个项目最重要的部分就是形式是怎样发展的。这意味着放弃许多空间，来放简单线条图，不要过多考虑怎样通过图表解释想法。前几页已经为该项目的其他页面设定了基调，当然为的是剩余页面不要偏离太多。这是一次让我思考不同页面布局的好机会，我很满意最后呈现出来的效果。

The most important part of this project was how the form was developed. This meant giving up a lot of space for simple line drawings and not over thinking how to graphically explain this idea. These first few pages have set the tone for the rest of the project pages and the goal is not to stray too far off course. It’s a good exercise to get myself to think differently about page layout and I’m interested to see what comes out of it.

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