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but dorothy was right though
Here’s the reason why I want to do design professionally when I grow up: the satisfaction I get from seeing things I’ve made in use is enormous. For example, I’ve done everything design-related for my school’s revue, which premiered on Wednesday. Watching everyone in the audience sitting there paging through my event programme was a great feeling.
I’ve been working on developing the new version of Galleristic lately. I took the old version down from my scripts collection not too long ago because of insecurities, (I first wrote it when I was 13, after all…) but the new one should be up in less than a month. I’m writing it from scratch, adding new features, updating it to today’s standards and most importantly fixing all security vulnerabilities that existed in version 1.0. When Galleristic 2.0 comes out, it should be a great script for maintaining a basic photo gallery or portfolio, which is easy to customize based on your own needs and design.
Here’s a little preview of the redesigned default template. Compared to the old one, it’s quite a big improvement. ;)
If you have thoughts or inputs, either on the design or features you wish to have in Galleristic, feel free to share. I’ll probably need beta testers in not too long as well, so if you keep checking this blog, I’ll post a link to a beta .zip sooner or later! :D
(PS: I have a habit of taking my post titles from random song lyrics - get used to it. ;) And if you want to, you can guess where they are from.)
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Art For Art’s Sake
Lately, I’ve become increasingly interested in designing for no particular purpose - you know, art for art’s sake. The last year and a half, I don’t think I’ve ever actually made anything that wasn’t a) a school project, b) a work project, c) something else that had some kind of use, whether being a portfolio for myself or posters promoting our student’s revue.
I’m thinking I should probably do something about that - if I want any hope of coming into my universities of choice, my portfolio should probably contain some creative pieces, right? The only issue here though, is getting the inspiration and ideas! However, that’s what I have this fancy little list for - 5 quick tips for finding design inspiration. ;)
- Listen to your favorite music, and try to visualize the song.
- Take a scene or quote from a movie, and describe it with graphics.
- Ask a good friend for good ideas.
- Think of a clear message you’d like to broadcast - how can you illustrate it?
- And last, but not least - find inspiration in other people’s work.
Since this was all going on during Math, #3 really was the easiest option. Asking a friend returned the prompt “the Americanized global society” - which quickly resulted in ideas for several concepts. End result? It’s over here, at DeviantArt. I’m really pleased with it, to be honest.
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