Question regarding using a passion project in portfolio.
Hello! I’ve been working on a fictional football club project for a while now. Basically i created a football club on a game... Which then sparked the idea to make it a design project. It started as a personal passion project, but it has grown into something quite complete:
* Full club lore & history * Logo, visual identity & color system * Home & away kits * A complete club website (with squad pages, academy, history, partners, matchday content, etc.. .) * Consistent branding across everything, as if the club were real * Cultural context was considered throughout, combining Swedish and Japanese football traditions into a single, cohesive identity.
>The club itself is fictional (actually for Football Manager), but the presentation is intentionally serious and realistic, no parody or meme tone. The idea was to treat it like a real world branding + digital identity case.
My question is: Would you consider something like this valid and useful in a professional design, UX, web portfolio? Or should i just keep it for personal memory... Again its a serious project, but it just feels unserious to include a hobby football manager project in my portfolio. Thankful for all tips:)