So I've been asked by Yvonne Hulha if I stopped blogging. The answer is: I don't know. I've been kinda busy lately and I kind of didn't have the feeling that anybody was really interested in what I had to say but then I also might just have been having a writer's block.
Taikonauten, The Dark Side of the Force
Recently work with CardCoaches (lets refer to them as CC from now on) has become much tougher and challenging than ever before. My status there has become quite serious. In fact, I get to do a lot of the design decisions myself nowadays. Let me tell you how the work-flow changed from a few months ago to now.
Before I would get a ready made scribble, do a little tweaking and send it to the designers DieTaikonauten (lets refer to them as Taikos from now on). Nothing more. As Part of the contract between the Taikos and CC The Taikos have to do all the design work for the homepage for set price. Now that is a good deal, considering that CC change their minds like 10 times a day. The problem with that is, that I never got to do any actual design work that would then be published, since the Taikos would always go ahead and change something to their liking. My workflow looked something like this:
Then my workflow shifted a bit and I got to do the final tweaking and the scribble. So this means:
Wireframes (CC) » Scribble (me) » Design (Taikos) » Final Touch-Ups (me) » Programming (Systaro)
And now I basically have my hand in everything. (notice how it all turned a shade of green =) - Red is evil btw!)
Wireframes (CC & me) » Scribble (me) » Design (Taikos & me) » Final Touch-Ups (me) » Programming & Final work on the PSD-files (Systaro & me)
Oh yeah, baby! =D And For everyone who is influenced by Joakim into thinking that I work TOO MUCH: When I was in workflow 1 I worked about 3 hours a week. Now I work like 30! Imagine what that does to our economy. It's totally worth it. Seriously... :)
University
apart from that I've been working hard in university. My course is called "Web Design" and, surprise, I have to design a website! ;)
The cool thing is, that I work in a group (new to me) for an actual client (not new to me, but still exciting)!
The client is a Fast Food restaurant called "Billy Boy's" (isn't that a condom brand, too?). Anyway.. since none of my group members know anything about design or programming I was elected group-leader. A role, which I really didn't want. Now all the work load is on me and I know myself - I'm not good at delegating as soon as the work is lying on my desk. But I have to involve my team-mates somehow so I figured I would take the laptop with me to school and we do the design together (with me handling the mouse plx)
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures yet but I have a little poll that I would like your help with!
We looked at the restaurant's web-based competition and we narrowed it down to two basic layouts. Please tell me which you like better. Personally, I like Layout 1 better.
Layout 1
Layout 2
Please ignore the content - The question is only: do we have a busy content on a plain background or do we have a busy background (image) with a plain content-area?
Birthday
On September 1st I turned 21 and Joakim did the nicest thing for me! He bought 900 post-it hearts and stuck them over all the walls in the apartment and - which is 50% cute, 50% mad - all over the floor in the hall-way up TO our apartment! Take a look at this gallery to see what I saw when I came home from school that day.
The weekend after that we went to Aros Fortet, which is a little bit like an adventure game but IRL. You go into small room where you have to solve a riddle or just climb over stuff in a given amount of time. If you fail, a light on the ceiling turns red and you have to leave the room (now you can either try again or go on). If you succeed, the light turns green and you won a certain amount of points. We played in two teams agains each other, 4-5 in each team. We in our team were sooo sure we were gonna win this but in the end we only had 300-odd points, whereas the other team had 560-ish points. Fail. But this was an amazing birthday! I totally want to show this place to all of you guys!
Photography
So I was actually thinking of creating a blog solely on photography but then I thought: hell.. if I can't even update this blog more than once in two months, how am I supposed to keep up with two? So I am just going to spam my newest images here instead! Enjoy :)
