Framer - Creating TagWorks
I had begun to properly develop my own brand over the summer between grade 4 and 5, uploaded a lot of my college and first year graphics work to a second Instagram account, which for a while went unnamed officially. I found this both a fun yet tedious and also difficult process. Instagram is a limiting site and whilst it is a form of portfolio, it's more of a strictly visual and fun side project / portfolio for me. It was in making this that i decided on the name 'TagWorks' for my own personal brand and theming. Taken from my initials, T A and G, which is a moniker that I've used for as long as i can remember, and works coming from the idea of a creation - a work. I had a few names floating around, - Tagforprint being one, and tagdesign being another - but neither were as catchy or appliable as Tagworks. As i said though, Instagram is a limiting platform, and certainly has never been what i would want to be my professional platform, so when the discussing of web design was introduced to us during production week, I decided
it was time to take my portfolio and brand further.
The Plan
Before actually trying out framer, i decided to come up with a plan of what i actually wanted to include in my own portfolio / website. Looking at examples such as Peter Hubner and Sashia Freeke, i was really inspired by their incorporation of experiments within their portfolio. Taking control of their own website and their own portion of the internet has allowed them to not leave out smaller scale, perhaps more fun experiments they create. Peter Hubner and Sashia Freeke has a section where they create a daily design and upload it into a feed like section. Whilst the website remains professional and considered, this section allows them to have fun too.
So here is what i decided i want for my own site.
- 2 (with room to make more but to begin with 2) major sections to split my creations into - Projects and Works.
- Projects exist as more 'professional designs' and more so an actual portfolio - Here is what i have made before, and here is the sort of thing people have paid me / briefed me to create.
- Works are my answer to Peter Hubner and Sashia Freekes experimentations pages. Examples ill have will be RisoWorks - riso experiments cause i love the riso print, FontWorks - i want to be able to create my own fonts to use, so over xmas 2025 im going to work on my first set of fonts, starting with SansWorks and SerifWorks.
- shop section
- inquiries section
but its the projects and works section that is most important to me, as it will allow me to feel capable of being able to show off more experimental or perhaps -First Attempts - off to potential viewers, whilst also being able to professional show of single or ongoing projects, which could still be personal and self initiated, but ones that go beyond being a potentially one off or simply a practice or a for fun WORKs.
