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One Design Exception

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Normally I don’t do this because I don’t mix business and pleasure and I made the mistake in the past to trust people who contacted me through this blog about a design job which either ended up having to deal with cheapskates or someone who was more interested in the person than the skillset… Read: time wasters… So just for the record: I don’t accept assignments anymore through this blog.

For this reason I’ve set up a separate business blog where I’ll be posting client’s briefs, images of my designs and progress of my work [as in more images] and design related topics. I’m also extremely cautious with my clients information and would never do anything to jeopardise their personal details, all info will be published with their given consent. Except for the one example below, this person doesn’t have a clue… *kidding*

:P

But I realise that I have been posting a lot about things that keep me busy lately as in work. And over the weekend I have been rebuilding a website template which I thought was too big [size-wise and the images were too large in file size] and didn’t work cross-platform. After some tweaking it works on all browsers, last thing I’ll need to add is a Flash-built portfolio which will take me a few of hours and then it’s all done.

Later today I’ll be working on an email marketing newsletter, a grid which will be adjusted and sent twice a month. I’d planned to do this over the weekend but the rebuild of this template took me slightly longer than expected and since I’m a nitpicker -or some would say a perfectionist- I didn’t want to stop till the job was done, hence the late post *hehe*. The newsletter is fun and challenging: design and code-wise.

Then if I have some time left I will work on the eCommerce gloves website which is almost done; I finally got my last bits of content in last week. I’m also waiting for a sample package to drop in the letterbox from a printer who claims to print spot UV for amazingly cheap prices which is something I need for the same gloves people. I used spot UV in the business cards design that I finished for them last week.

So I’m off to bed now since I have an early start again and another busy day ahead of me…

The two images at the bottom is an animation, it loops about 12 images

Change Of Season

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The sun is shining through my window, there’s a storm outside and I can see the trees swing from side to side. Still holding on to their already turning leaves, but it won’t last much longer I’m afraid… The day will come where shades of red, yellow and brown will colour the ground. The season is changing, I’m lucky to catch this ray of sunshine on what would usually be a typical English grey day. It’s probably one of the last attempts so I’m a sponge absorbing the nurturing ingredients of sunlight making me dreamy while I prepare myself for a day of creativity.

Yesterday and the day before I decided to stay away from my computer for a while because I felt the urge to be quiet and think. I’m good at reorganising my thoughts while I’m cleaning up at the same time. Throwing out all the things that ‘you think you need‘ gives me the freedom of detaching so I can let go and therefore it creates the much needed space in my head to deal with things that might be bothering me. A declutter session is like spending an hour with a shrink, and after, you feel relieved and determined to deal with what needs to be dealt with.

So because of those sessions, today, I enjoy the sunshine warming up and lighten the now empty corners of my mind while I focus on things that need to be done. Stuff that I might have postponed for another day or worse; try not to deal with them at all. I have a perfectly clean slate, a nice crisp page in my Moleskine sketchbook, a leadholder impatiently waiting to jot down thoughts accompanied by sketches and the in-between-thoughts doodles that will cause laughter days later when I go through my sketchbook in search of another unspoilt page.

I will use the wonderful skills that I was given, the creative knowledge that I’ve studied for and gathered over many years of experience to create business cards for a garden designer and a website for my friend. She is a [wedding] photographer and asked me a few days ago if I was interested in this project. I designed her logo, stationery, business cards and compliment slip using her beautiful pictures. She needs an online portfolio to show her clients, I’ll use the same design as I used for her stationery: stylish, classy and most of all professional looking.

It’s a website that will be so much fun to design, I’ll do this in the ‘quiet moments’ as a treat to myself when I’m allowed a break from the gloves website which is just one of those things that needs to be done… Getting paid for sitting in the sun and being creative… ain’t it fun? *kidding*

[Note: an hour later it pisses down with rain *LOL* but I’m happy I could enjoy enough sunshine to brighten my morning. And two hours later the sun is there again smiling at me for the rest of the day!]

My notes, thoughts, doodles and/or sketches…

My notes, thoughts, doodles and/or sketches…

My notes, thoughts, doodles and/or sketches…