Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Update 003

Huge update! Site's been completely revamped. There's a nice banner up top sliced from my newest piece titled 'splash'. In it is the 'ver 2' of the Kwonnie (now KwonARTS) Owl. With that comes some more imagery for the portfolio and a new favicon!

On my external HDD, I found PSD's for ~23 sigs I still like. Yesterday I took the liberty of uploading them all to the site along with another four straight from my designated Facebook album. Check 'em out!

The project with Carthage still seems to be a go, so I look forward to working with them.

I'm thinking about adding an avatar-arranged thumbnail-ish layout for the portfolio tab. We'll see. More to come!

(Still no idea as to why the timestamp on my feed is connecting to the same time for every item... it's bothering me =\.)

Friday, June 17, 2011

Update 002

Still waiting on content from No Wooden Nickels. In the meantime I think I'll slowly update a few extra pages to the portfolio via Lightbox. I don't think the boutique graphic design job is going to work out considering I got no word back, but I suppose this is good opportunity to start freelancing considering expenses for this month are almost paid off.

Tre Watson of the band Carthage has promise of job designing his bandcamp and likely other social networking services. We'll see what comes of that next week. I think I'll be toying with vector designs until then. I finally decided what to do in the way of a logo - this being an owl - in reference to my nocturnal habits. I'm hoping this choice will better associate with me commercially.

I'm still browing Craigslist for job offers, though it seems every potential gig keeps falling through. Hopefully I'll find something somewhat long-term this time. Tomorrow I'll likely be wrapping up the design for my portfolio completely and start getting more work to upload. It'd be great if I had the stuff from my hard drive to provide though, for sure.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Update 001

Switched portfolio over to new server at comxa.com. I liked netne.net, but what can you do? I had to get this done. In any case, the tabs are looking good. I made the links display in the corresponding color underneath each tab and I finally got started on the portfolio section - replete with lightbox photo effects! PrettyPhoto courtesy of Stephanie Caron.

I realize the portfolio is the most important aspect but I can't really do anything until I get all my work from No Wooden Nickels sent in. In the meantime, I'll be uploading logos from other sites slowly. And when I get access to my hard drive, I'll be uploading textless sigs that I like the most. Admittedly, I may have gone a bit overboard with the social networking links, but I don't care much. I like the buttons, needless to say.

I'll be applying for a junior designer position in downtown LA. Hopefully I'll be able to get that position so I can start to get a steady payroll. It seems promising. On the other hand, I definitely need an extensive portfolio if I want to succeed without pursuing a college degree. It really bites knowing you need a degree to tell someone you can code when you've been doing it since you were half your current age...

In other news, Melon my dwarf hamster gave birth today! She had five-six babies and they're all cute and red! I'll be uploading some videos to Facebook for all to see shortly.