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Looking Back at 2009

As is becom­ing a tra­di­tion for me, I’m writ­ing a post to reflect on the last year as we’re jump­ing into the new. I will write another post later to talk about new tools and new tech­nolo­gies I dis­cov­ered or started using in 2009. In this one, I reflect on the past year, the things that went well, the things…

It’s Been One Year!

I missed the actual anniver­sary date which was August 8 (2008÷08÷08) but it’s now been one full year since I quit my job to go free­lance full time. The road has not always been easy but I wouldn’t go back. I’m the hap­pi­est I’ve been in my whole life and I have a real sense of accom­plish­ment like I haven’t…

2008, The Year of Freelancing and Twitter

I am a bit late with the 2008 yearly reviews but this one will be shorter than last year’s. As 2008 has been a very big year for me I wanted to blog about it for pos­ter­ity and this post will focus on basi­cally 2 things. I’ll prob­a­bly post more about spe­cific dis­cov­er­ies (soft­ware, sites, etc) later but for now……

Webfocusdesign​.com Version 4 is Online

Earlier this week I finally pub­lished the new ver­sion of my Web design busi­ness site, web​fo​cus​de​sign​.com which I’ve worked at on and off for sev­eral months now. The site finally reflects my cur­rent com­pany brand­ing and sports the same visual iden­tity as my busi­ness card, invoices and other client fac­ing print mate­ri­als. It also finally showcases…

More on the Web/​Print Work Flow Separation…

Just in the nick of time fol­low­ing the post I wrote yes­ter­day, I made a trip to my local book­store last night and I bough the new issue of Dynamic Graphics mag­a­zine (April/​May). The issue’s focus is mainly on type but there is a entire arti­cle in the mag devoted to the issue I was dis­cussing. The arti­cle (titled “Jack of…