Whether you are a makeup artist, photographer, painter or designer, an online portfolio community has just launched to give you a space on the web to not only set up a clean, professional and rich online portfolio of your images, but to also give your work more exposure and a great way to network with like-minded industry talent. Dripbook.com came out of private beta yesterday to showcase all it has to offer to the world of visual arts.
Dripbook is equally appropriate to the fashion scene as the fine art scene to the underground youth art scene. Painters, photographers, stylists and illustrators are equally represented. Dripbook also serves as a survey of the visual arts world, allowing users and viewers to find great artwork around the world.
Alex Wright, a New York based music photographer, is the creative mind behind Dripbook. In designing Dripbook, he took on the challenge of creating a place where artists can upload and organize their art into books, no matter the genre (even if they cover various genres) without the hassle of understanding code and plugins that go along with designing a website for yourself. The interface is easy for both the user and viewer, in that the entire site is HTML and doesn’t require anything extra for the portfolio to be seen. All users have a splash page, a profile, their book page and a place where other artists can comment on their work. The site is very clean, well laid out and easy to navigate.
I believe we’ll start seeing more niche social networks such as Dripbook, IQONS and PRVoices, as more industry professionals look for a way to see and be seen by other professionals in their industry, while avoiding the clutter of networks such as MySpace and Facebook.
See all that Dripbook has to offer at: www.dripbook.com
* Photo Credit: Alex Wright Photography via Dripbook
Posted by Shannon Nelson on October 10, 2007 6:45 AM
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This is a really amazing and innovative website. Working in advertising we need all the resources we can get. This also shows the industry that there is so much more talent out there that normally would not be seen.
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Charlie |
October 10, 2007 1:11 PM
Posted on October 10, 2007 13:11
What is very interesting about Dripbook is the high quality and the wide range of style of the presented artists.
I find it very pleasant, as an artist, to build up a sort of "family" : it makes one feel less isolated, but nonetheless unique, by comparison. It is nice to be challenged by others' works, too.
The site is very well designed to go straight to the point which is to show the work with a presentation that is never intrusive (and very easy to use).
The thing I like very much also is the home page, which features books in order of appearance, so you can always have a look on who just arrived, who just put a new image there... Artists from everywhere... Excellent !
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Helene |
October 11, 2007 11:06 PM
Posted on October 11, 2007 23:06
Interesting to see the rise in new niche networks: DailyStrength.com for illness, Behance.net for creative professionals, and now DripBook.com for image-based artists. Definitely a trend to watch.
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RS |
October 15, 2007 8:47 PM
Posted on October 15, 2007 20:47