Design and Commercial Art

So I've been spending my time reading because I'm in a bit of a lul productivity wise. And gladly I found a host of interesting articles specifically around design as a production system:spitting out steams of high quality work, and generally appreciating design as an art form. I personally do try and work with clients that understand this, give you time to work, understand some of the hardships and appreciate it when they are pleased. But this isn't always possible ofcourse when bills have to be paid, and as a growing business, this is always the case. Anyhow, on with the articles:

http://www.eleven3.com/freelance/good-cheap-and-fast/

http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/deadlines_kill_inspiration/

http://www.eleven3.com/web-design/avoiding-the-designers-crisis/

I know there's heaps more. But this is where I started and links from both those sites are really interesting. Maybe one day, when the self-loathing is at an all time low, Ill find the time to actually write...

All Dynamic Random Lines

So.. we're live with a new site.
And as has always been the case, there is even more random in this one.
I messed with a good amount of php to get this going and the biggest addition is the Add Folio section. This allows members to add and manage their own folios. A practically seemless CMS environment. It's powered in the backend by PIcasa Web Albums for images. so thank you google. As is this blog.
All feels good. Everybody involved can start adding their folios, and hopefully, the world will be a better place as we go along.

New Random Lines coming...

So I finally put my head down and started working on a new site. As always, there'll be a host of new features from my various learnings since the last site. This time though I want to do as much as I can for the artists, so this site will have individual portfolio's and stuff like that. It's already awesome fun working on; dabbling in php and the like.
So hang on... and wait for it!

Happy Dipavali

शुभ दीपावली
Random Lines wishes you a very happy Diwali!
Blow up some of our floating boxes in celebration. (hit space to turn on the crosshair).
I miss being in India...