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July 6, 2008 at 10:20 am · Stacked in Career, Design, Internet
Like most people in my field, I started developing for the web by accident. As a child I always thought I was destined to become a computer technician, doomed to spend most of my adult years in an old dusty garage repairing hardware and chugging coke. A little more than 7 years later Im designing websites for companies; breathing and loving it. I’d have passed on a pleasant conversation over dinner with Keira Knightley to download fonts and brushes. I was obsessed.
Today I find myself whistling a slightly different tune; same genre, different song. Designing, coding and developing websites for other companies no longer fits my career description. When your as tangled up in the web as I am your in a club with billions of enthusiast just like you. You read their blogs, scout their work, hell… you even eat their brand of toast because they twitter’d it. The only true difference between them and yourself is they contribute and play a more relevant role in the development of the web. To me, designing websites for others isn’t as rewarding when you use services like Facebook and Google. I want to set sail to construct my own significant contribution to the web and develop a web-based service that offers convenience, ease of use, a beautiful design and mind-blowing functionality. Only then will I be satisfied creatively and motivated passionately to continue my career and confidently title myself Web Developer and Programmer.
So, with that, I’ve began working on a few projects that I am already very proud of. I will for sure post those future ideas when they become much more mature.
November 22, 2007 at 5:17 pm · Stacked in Career
For the past week I’ve found myself starving for a creative bug to i guess ‘bug’ me. For designers like me and persons in the field of being creative professionally, its very vital to keep your mind stimulated. Sure, drinking coffee is one way, but never-mind that for now. I’m talking about staying focused and genuinely interested in your work. It could be a tough tasks at times for some of us. Especially if there are distractions in your work place.
While searching for great mind exercises I came across an interesting article full of attractive ideas to help stimulate my mind, creatively. Its perfect timing because I was thinking of a great topic to blog about all day. We’ll here it is:
Link: 15 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity.
November 21, 2007 at 12:57 pm · Stacked in Career
Many people may not know, but I dropped out of high-school a year before I was to graduate. Back then, the idea of no school was a breeze. I took advantage of lots of things that I wasn’t responsible for at the time. Being as young as I was, I didn’t have to worry about a rent, cable bills, electric bills and other common expenses of today’s typical adult. I was living the life. Out of school with magical dreams of starting a business and absolutely no clue on which foot to put first.
So instead I crawled. I started surrounding myself with people who I thought ‘may’ have a clue, and those people led me to people who actually knew what they were doing. They actually owned healthy-stable businesses and made a pretty good living for themselves. People like Jon Brunson, Keetha Lowe and Harold Simons simply get it.
I always knew I was going to work in the Digital Media industry. But there’s so many branches on that tree. You have your Print Media and Graphic Design, then your Audio Production and Recording, then your Photography, Your Web Design; I love them all. I eventually settled on Television and Broadcast, designing video and lower-third graphics for television. I loved it. But not as much as my fascination with the web.
Most of the skills I know today are self-taught. However, I’ve picked up many different techniques and strategies of web design from other web designers’ blogs. I own a small web design firm today and Im doing okay for myself.
Its awesome when your a creative person. Your mind is constantly ticking and those creative juices you depend on to make life a wee-bit more interesting evolve as you grow older.
