One Creative Thing » design

Went to the Van Doesburg exhibition at Tate Modern

minim — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:20:34 +0000

Some awesome stuff in there, but unfortunately they had major fail when it came to providing seating for the crippled – enormous exhibition, only 2 benches in the whole thing, as far as I could see. I didn’t quite get halfway through it so will have to go back again. At least once. Possibly twice in order to get through the whole of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique. Why oh why include the whole of a 16-minute film, with only two sets of headphones and nowhere to sit down???

Bought & devoured a design magazine

minim — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:59:14 +0000

No, not literally! The latest issue of Creative Review is dedicated to creative workspaces, which is something that fascinates me, so indulged and have subsequently consumed. Mmmm.

Started designing the new site

minim — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:56:24 +0000

It’s really going to happen this time. Yes it is, and tonight I tackled Photoshop to start laying things out. So hopefully it’ll be properly underway soon.

Thoughts on a website

minim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:43:16 +0000

Began to pull together some ideas (again) about how I want to tackle my new website. I’ve started this a couple of times but this feels meatier and more like it has a chance of making it to the coding phase.

Watched a video about designing a website

minim — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:15:01 +0000

on CSS-Tricks, which now has me all fired up to get back to designing both raspberryblue.com and my new personal site. It’s not much of an achievement, I know, but I’m poorly today and this is about all I’ve been capable of in between naps. iPod cosy is about 2/3 done now.

Finished the Satie arrangement

minim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:55:31 +0000

At long, long last. I think the guy who commissioned it asked for it in 2006, when I was having a lot of trouble pulling myself together. He has been incredibly patient and endlessly encouraging, so it’s great to finally be able to present him with the score. Plus it’s a HUGE weight off my mind, and now it’s done I feel ready to face just about anything. I also feel I deserve a new iPod Touch

Assessed accounting software

minim — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:55:16 +0000

Alas, yes. For many I suspect this wouldn’t count as creative activity, however it was all a learning experience, and quite aside from learning what I want in an accounting programme (multiple currency support, budgeting, loan tracking, import of bank statements and export of proper accountant reports), I learnt a lot about website design for software and the sorts of first impressions that totally put me off. Very valuable experience for the super-secret project, I suspect!

Started inventing a scarf

minim — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:34:57 +0000

My mother wants a scarf in this delicious cotton chenille yarn we bought her in Shropshire, but I’ve no pattern for it, so I’m taking my first tentative tottering steps into knitwear design by making it up as a go along. First attempt has drawn a lot on an existing pattern, but isn’t right, so I guess I’ll have to deviate more and be more adventurous. Fun!

Messed about with designs for other pages

minim — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:12:28 +0000

Getting the hang of doing graduated washes with watercolour in my Moleskine at last – the first couple turned out pretty spotty, but it’s looking a bit better now. Working on the designs is really getting ideas flowing about what we can do and how things can be accomplished. Exciting!

Played around with homepage design for the super-secret project

minim — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:04:40 +0000

Yes, it’s a web project. But then that would hardly surprise most people we know, I suspect. Design for this is entailing messing about with pens and watercolour and out of date masking fluid, which was rather nasty. Definitely needs replacing