Mind Map & Colour Scheme

My mind map to me is a drawing board for all my ideas and options on my portfolio. I have included all the basic ways for my portfolio, such as Blog, projects about me, these all were my starting points for what content will be included on my portfolio. these were straight forward with types of work that would be included so a list of projects i needed to recover or complete, and the style of tumblr and blog i would be using. I could then start to map out the parts of my portfolio that i had only started to think of such as colour schemes, logos, text. and since creating this mind map i have started to realise that I want to keep my portfolio with a simple look with minimal colours and spaces on the page, however i would also like that retro/vintage look to the text or my logo which would be my name. Overall Mindomo was a really great starting basis to spread out all my ideas and actions going to be taking forward with my portfolio.

Colour Scheme 


From my previous planning and what I had spoke about earlier my next piece of planning was to decide on my colour scheme and theme of my portfolio. After deciding I want to use Squarespace and try to fund my portfolio, i then think my layout and colour scheme should look right for the type of layout. Keeping in mind I want to use quite a simplistic look with maybe a retro feel, such as typography, although a portfolio can always be changed whenever. The step i took to deciding about colour was using adobes kulur website and going through all the right sets of colours that could be my portfolios theme. After going through the set up colour themes and thinking I would rather create my set manually. The two final colour schemes i have picked, one is a purple monochromic set that goes through the purples on the same line, with different grades of dark to light. This I feel would give the retro look I would be going for with text as well as to go with a black or white back drop. The next set of colours were more of a light blue/turquoise set, this was done with the grades feature and would take the nearest shades of blue on the same level as the base colour. I felt the blue would be more complimentary on the black or white back drop, however the purple could be more striking. Now i have my colour schemes laid out I can start to include it to either my Mockflow or start to mix up my template once I have chosen it. The colour ill more likely take forward will be the purple, however everything can change in design.


Purple Monochromic

Blue/Turquoise Gradient