I've had this domain since 2003 without not so much more than a "Hello and hi" on a first page. For the last couple of years I've been working with various design mockups without ever releasing anything.
This is the kind of post where I get a chance to bragg just a little. As stated above and in my first blog post, it's been a while without anything really existing on this website. It's been a lot of temporary mumbo jumbo. The classic issue with the cobbler's children not having any shoes. I've actually saved a lot of the temporary sites, all can be viewed in the archive.
Summary of the first year
After releasing the website a couple of design and CSS blogs linked to the website and I got some traffic.
Releasing the photo blog during April was also sort of a success. A lot of design blogs wrote about it and people were impressed. All made with javascript at first and later improved using CSS3 Transitions.
During the summer I became semi finalist in Adobe Design Achievments Award, making it into the top in Browser Based Design among 4605 submissons over several categories. Also a lot of fun.
I've always had a thing for Iceland. Don't know why but I've always had plans on going there but somehow, those plans never got all the way through to lift off. This summer I had an opportunity to go there.
I spent about three days on Iceland and rented, together with two friends, an apartment in Reykjavik via Airbnb. Cheap, placed close to city centre and very friendly host made it really easy. My impressions of Reykjavik wasn't that impressive, but considering I've just a couple of days there I can't really be in a position to judge. I need to go there once more—at least—and for a longer period.
The nature is beautiful though and everywhere feels like a perfect spot for a photo. Next time I'll stay for longer time and be prepared to go on hikes.
Grotta lighthouse in Reykjavik.
Walking along Vesturgata with all the charming houses.
Adobe Muse is a preview of a new tool from Adobe with the promise that you can create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. Publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Download the beta here.
At first I was very skeptical about this preview. Any tool with the promise that you can design just like print and »publish HTML websites without writing code« probably won't output good markup. And right we are; the markup isn't good right now. Just have a look at the Muse website, which is built with Adobe Muse and you can see the overuse of nested div elements and no good semantics. We do not like this at all. And that's one way of looking at it.
There has been a long discussion within the web design community about not having the right tool for designing website. Creating images in Photoshop and showing to clients is one way, but it's only an image…
Yes. It's been a while. No excuses. I'm not prioritizing this at all. Many reasons, but I'm not going to trouble you with any of it. Things have happened on both a professional and a personal level. Enough said.
But I feel should definitely give you an update what's going on in my life. I June I moved back from London to Stockholm, graduated from the interactive art director programme at Hyper Island and now I'm working at as an interactive art director at Ninetech.
The spring has been pretty intense. I was offered a job in London at the same time I was offered a job in Stockholm. And if you've read this far you pretty much know where it went.
I had a chance to shoot some photos on Iceland. Have a look at my Iceland photo set on Flickr.
The summer has pretty much been filled with full time work all day long and spending quality time with family and friends back home. I went on a three day mini vacation on Iceland, and had a short but intense c…
