I’m a Visual Designer so I constantly need to be up to date with allmost everything that is new, thus continuosly browsing the web and spoting what I am about to say.

From what I am seing the web is starting to repeat its designs…more am more websites are alike, positioning, color schemes, used elements, fonts, and even the media in some of them are identical (I am so sorry but I do not want to give any examples cause I do not want people getting angree at me, this is my opinion deal with it) it is simply stupid. I know you need to do it fast and for the money, most of the times, I do it as well, but with 10 minutes extra you can create something simple and original.

Have you seen those sites that have the search on the right, the big sliding/fading/freakingout media slider in the header, that have that boring menu on a well streched line beneath the slider and the links are just plain old text? If you are doing that you need to be extremly good or you have to be a master at what you do, to make that look very good…I can continue with the details but the web shows it best.

These kind of things and the lack of free imagination in the designing process, also the overuse of some design rules out there are creating this repetition, this look-alike process which is rasing the bordom line thus making the user to head on to the next website and so on untill: 1.He gives up (shuts down his laptop) or. 2.He has the luck to find something professional and further more ORIGINAL and stick to that.

Yeah I know what you will say, that the user is used to that layout and so on and so forth BUT the users keep up from evolving, in order for our skills to evolve we need to teach the user our new technologies, our new skills, our beautiful layouts because we lead the way, we say what happends and when…the just point-click and scroll.

We all know that something pure original and amazing will stop you in your track and capture your undivided attention.

But amongst these repetitions there are only a handfull of daring web/print designers that have the guts and the imagination to bend the rules and create something which is not tied to that baseline or to those standards that are imposing these layouts, and something which will not sustain this monotness state of the web. They should be your teachers and the work they do should be your starting inspiration.

I one to them I’ll bow, keep on fighting the fight guys & girls!!

Original source @ABurbonForSilvia

Try and be the ♛ on the board that dreams of that loving, strong and fighting ♚ who stands on his right.
Try and smile at the entertainment put on for your heart by the ♝ which smiles within you and who will never walk straight.
Dream to be safe guarded by those knights that you should fight to be and who stand by your side, who bravely know and have the courage to ride those black and white ♞  into any battle for you, thus keeping you and your dreamed at beloved safe in the tallest ♜.
And yet again I ask you to be wise enough and strong enough to command and hold strong that army of feelings, those eight of ♟ and struggle hard to keep them…..cause at the end of every strategy one must choose which piece to give up first.

☞ Chess – A.N.

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

But when those people are gone, I one believe that the bridge between you and the essence to your childhood collapses and you are forced to recognize that you have grown up, and the teachings passed to you by those that have passed away must now take effect to keep you straight and focused on you being happy…it is somehow of a paradox I think, and that is because when I got the news that my grandmother from my mother side….passed away….something also died in me, still I can not believe it is true and I certainly do not comprehend what has actually happened yet….but in time it will sink in.

And yes it is a paradox, it is a paradox because keeping focused on your happiness while those that thought you how and where to find it have passed, is terrifying for me…but still I know that keeping those lessons alive in me acting on them and letting them drive me, I keep a part of those persons with me everywhere, anywhere, always…how and why I can not explain.

It will be hard for me for a while, I’ll probably keep hidden and rethink some things, but a word of advice, make every action count and start enjoying even rainy days, even dark times have their role in this life, stay focused and always keep what makes you smile, never what pulls you down and if you lose be wise and do not lose the lesson stay strong, keep strong remember those that matter and forget those that do not and as a guitarist would say “Forever trust in who we are…”.

Gonna miss you grandma…much respect and honor….thank you for everything.

This one really drove me so close to my braking point, that I honestly thought I would crumble down and retreat or worse, give up. Some things were lost, some friends now are gone, something I regret, but despite this, many things were gained, learned and achieved in such a manner that they are carved in my mind and heart.

Till this year I was simply just testing the ground underneath me, searching the steadiest part to step on in order to reach that which I really longed for, to better understand what really drives me and gives me the need to evolve, to learn more, to do something that will stand strong in the face of time and dumb-ass criticism…to be me, to be my purest form, my emotionally weird creative self (thank you Alina Bucur for teaching me that).

This year has thought me a lot…thought me what the price of freedom is, what you can gain alone and what you can not, how high one can extend his mind and how deep can one fall in his own uncleaned clutter without even wanting. How deep some things go and how much some words weigh…

Some things have been amazing, but with a necessary end in order for other to replace them and push me harder to achieve what I wanted. As always, summer to me has always had a huge impact, throwing me in situations that I would not expect or predict or be prepared for…..but this summer has been, without sounding to drastic, life changing…this summer has showed me that one can change his hardheaded concepts and regain his soul and start using his feelings…I fell in love! (yeah I said it).

I fell in love with someone that I still believe is pulled out of an amazing story…someone who has showed me that I can stop being a prick and start living my life the way I dreamed it. Thank you baby!

Also this year in October I finally launched my Freaking Portfolio and redesigned this blog, and for this again I want to thank my sweet girlfriend for putting up with me, I can be difficult probably…

Beside all of these, I would really like to thank all those who opened their door to me when I didn’t have where to crash…I will be forever in your debt guys…

And yeah I moved in with my girlfriend, or she moved in with me, who cares we’re staying together and that is that…

With all these said I wish you wisdom in life charging choices and have your fun, have your fun without that society imposed mask, be true to your self, be free!

“I don’t stop when I’m tired, I stop when I’m done.”

This is by far one of the most amazing videos I’ve seen since I’ve started surfing the web…amazing!

This one’s for all those
For whom I did,
Yes shed my tears.

This is for all that
They said to me,
And thought me well.

This one’s for all them
Who helped me grow,
In what I am.

This is for all those
Which I respect,
And whom I miss.

These are my last words
My humble bow,
My goodbye kiss…

Reverentia et honorem!

I wouldn’t have written this article if not for the www.eveonline.com website which I visit sometimes to see their progress (really like the game but my time is so limited I can not play it properly).

The problem now is (yeah there’s a freaking problem that is why I’m writing about it) that I’ve been stumbling more and more over amazing 3D artists that simply shock my eyes with what they can do and by admiring their work it reminds me that “Hey jackass, you could probably do better…”,  maybe I can or maybe I can not, but two things are for certain, one: I’ve got the tools and two: I kinda got that sci-fi creepy and robotic oriented (with some infusion of organic forms) imagination.

Now all I need is the time and the patience to start this again and hope to continue doing…sounds easy right, well it ain’t, it ain’t cause for the last 3-4 years I’ve got into web technologies and interface design which all the time must be made with some rules in mind, those rules overruled my perception of 3D creation/sense thus diminishing the freedom of my imagination to go far and wide with shapes and colors and concepts and so on….

With my recent craving for drawing (that has came back at last) I do hope the take down or learn to control those bounding rules of business design and let lose my hunger for whitepaper/pencil, digital canvas and 3D space so that I can get back on track.

And so sorry if I’m rushing into this but it’s December so happy holidays people!