PIXELBLOG http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog Adventures in Self-Employment Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:47:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because you need art on your walls, and it might as well be mine. I've started my very own Etsy shop! I will be selling individual prints at first, and eventually matted and framed versions. Prints will be fulfilled by White House Custom Color. And I've had my ImageKind gallery kicking around for a while but I haven't really promoted it. ImageKind is great ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=35 Sites that I look at when I need to give that creative part of my brain a kick in the pants. My (almost) daily sources of Visual Inspiration: Design at Alltop Design Observer by CommandShift3's daily leaderboard (and, for fun, I like to peruse the losers) We Made This is the blog of UK design firm We Made This, Ltd I Love Typography Logo Design Love And Ethan over at Unstoppable Robot Ninja just posted a link to ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=34 Essentials. In the category of things that would make me shake if I couldn't have it: Caffeine - Coffee (black), green tea, or yerba mate being the preferred delivery method Internet Camera iPod The love of a good woman (the woman, in this case, being my wife) And in the category of things that might cause me ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=33 Why you should hire a designer. Not a friend of your cousin’s who once did the Web site for his softball team. Right now I'm writing two proposals for potential clients. I tend to hold on to them for a while before I send them out for review. Why? Because I'm always afraid of what the response might be. Once I do send them out, I cringe and cower (mentally) ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=32 When it rains, it pours…aparently through the ceiling. Imagine you are home alone on a quiet Sunday afternoon. You go into your kitchen to investigate a trickling sound only to find sheets of brown water cascading from your kitchen ceiling. Ah, yes. Now imagine that this is days before Thanksgiving. Days before you are about ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=31 If only I had found this sooner! http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=30 radio silence. I promised myself I wouldn't write one of those "sorry I haven't written" posts, but here it is. It's been an interesting summer. I was doing very well until I experienced something that took the wind right out of my sails. It's not worth going into detail here. ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=27 recovery. A vacation where you end up more exhausted than when you started isn't a real vacation.  It's an ordeal.  But toss in the largest comic book convention of all time and a red-eye return flight with two already overstimulated kids? That's what you call a gauntlet. Yesterday I spent the day ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=26 You’d think it would suck but it doesn’t. Lullabye versions of Radiohead's greatest hits? Surely, it must be a joke. But no. They exist.  AND IT IS GOOD. There I was in the local hipster baby boutique this afternoon (shopping for a gift), when I spied the CD on the counter.  I came home and streamed ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=25 So. What’s next? Alright. I think I'm ready for the next big challenge. I think I've mastered table-less layout and now I'd like to take it to the next level. Where do I start? What books do I read? Who do I talk to? Clearly, my next step is ... http://www.pixelberg.com/pixelblog/?p=24