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Since it’s the last day of 2008, I’m happy to announce that desktop calendar for January of 2009 is live and managed to land on the list of Smashing Magazine’s Desktop Wallpaper Calendar again. This was a quick, pure-typo work, hope you like it.
And now, I’m off to celebrate the first day of the new year. Take care and let this year be better for all of us. No matter what.
So I got to design holiday cards that were to be sent to customers and friends of my company. The requirements were to make branding blend in nice and don’t use Christian symbols, cause our customers are not only Christian/Catholic and we didn’t want to hurt somebody’s feelings. Anyway, it was my first print work since my old business cards, so it was quite a challenge, to be honest.
For the branding, I didn’t want to expose logo that much, so I decided to make our branding font and colours more visible than the logo itself. One of our branding colours is pure cyan, so it fitted perfectly for winter-themed postcard. I also used winter-themed illustration of snowflake, since I thought things like Christmas tree would be too Christian (did I mentioned already that sometimes “political correctness” makes me sick?)
Anyway, when I look at it now, I think I could’ve aligned the text, logo and tagline a bit better, but overally I’m quite happy with the result. Any thoughts from your side?
I’m terrible when it comes to organizing my time. When I don’t have anything to rush me and literally kick me in the butt with “You have to do it!” I prefer spending my time slacking around, playing games and doing absolutely nothing. Yes, I was born lazy and the only thing that keeps me organized are the to-do lists.
I’ve used quite a few desktop and web-based applications so far and the only one that stood out for me was Todoist, where I even have bought Premium membership. It’s not expensive and makes lots of things easier. Since I switched to Mac I started using Things, but I was not quite amazed with it – it was simple to the bone, too simple for me, there were a lot of things in Things that pissed me off, so I moved back to Todoist.
In search of The Holy Grail of Desktop To-Do Applications I found this news about The Hit List on TUAW. I read all about it and decided to ask Potion Factory for the private beta access. It didn’t take long when I got an e-mail with a response that I’ve been granted beta access and they want my feedback when I get the application. Here are some quick thoughts that I got after migrating my Things to The Hit List.
Hello, my name is Mariusz and I'm a web, print and identity designer and UI developer based in Kraków, Poland. Currently I'm working for Lunar Logic Polska, where I'm responsible for UI design and implementation of the applications we work on. I love my wife, cats, dogs, and Apple products. Need to know more?
