It’s time for an intervention.
Lately I’ve been thinking how this domain portrays me as an individual and have found myself mulling an interesting deduction - this domain does very little to portray me as a designer. Considering that is the one thing I want to come across as I’d say there needs to be some changes.
No more personal blogging. I am happy with my tediously mundane life and feel the need to share every detail of it is superfluous. No one cares about what I had for breakfast. It was a wonderfully tasteless Starbucks ‘coffee’ with a lemon muffin if you must know.
The portfolio section will be destroyed. Slapping every piece of work I’ve done since I was fifteen does not bode well for my professional reputation. Portraying my work on screen is not reflective of my infatuation with handmade aesthetics at all. My portfolio will be a tangible object and not a plethora of thumbnails.
However, most importantly I need to brand myself much more clearly.
‘Hey Girl’ is a wonderful song by the Delays, however it is probably the furthest away you can get from what I am really trying to portray here. I’m not just defined by my gender.
The layouts I’ve had thus far have been highly experimental - pieces I’ve come up with in a few weeks with little or no research. That will change. I need to learn how to create layouts to accommodate my growing content, as opposed to creating layouts because they look ‘pwutty roffles’.
There will be a redesign at some point - content and layout wise. I have to find out who I am as a designer and what do I like and why. It may take a while but once I’ve actually come up with a strong identity I’ll be able to roll with it. And it will be awesome.
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