What really helps me work
Here are few simple rules for working that are most useful to me.
1. Be 100% on it
When you relax, really relax. Do not have any doubts about what you could be doing instead.
Same applies to work. These two things might spoil each other perfectly.
When you do something, just do it properly, do not postpone small things for ‘later’.
2. Prioritize
Review your to-do list often. Make sure you know what is really important at the moment.
3. Share your knowledge
Giving out some parts of your know-how will give a lot to you too. Writing something down, means giving it shape, re-thinking it. Sharing it means also getting opinions back and improving it again.
4. Do not let your thoughts and ideas go away
Write it down! Sketch it! As soon as possible.
5. Do things properly
Whatever you do, do it like you mean it. Never ever do things ‘just for yourself’.
6. Try new things properly
Whatever seems interesting to you, try it, do it. When you are trying something for the first time, do not let its features slip through your fingers unnoticed.
Information addiction – best of my RSS feeds (creative edition)
My RSS reader (google reader) contains 79 feeds. I add and delete them often to have this information channel as ‘fresh’ as possible. Here is my recent ‘best of’ sorted by topic.
Blogs for arty farty
Beautiful/Decay Magazine
Every day they add around 5 articles about different artists and their taste is just great! Began as a fanzine in 1996.
RSS | website
blood of the young zine
The name says it. Very fresh stuff with a bit of punk in it.
RSS | website
the strange attractor
The ‘strange and exceptional art from around the world’.
RSS | website
Blogs for a (graphic) designer
idsgn
Insightful and influential articles on graphic design, branding, typography.
RSS | website
typo jungle
Mostly typography. Mostly very original.
RSS | website
grain edit
My favorite dose of graphic design with retro feeling.
RSS | website
monsieur bandit
Design, illustration, storytelling, retro feeling.
RSS | website
Add your favorite RSS feeds of related topics in the comments!
Looking forward to it!
[cz]Design pro peněženky retart.sk
Na letošním Code:Mode (Prague Free Fashion Weekend 2010), který začíná již zítra, bude k dostání i peněženka s mým obrázkem z projektu 365 ideas. Najdete ji na stánku retart.sk, který je zodpovědný i za její realizaci.
Social networking in two languages
When thinking about this blog one of the first things that came to my mind was a language I will use. Also, whenever writing a tweet or a facebook status, I always decide between English and my mother tongue – Czech.
English has much wider audience but I still want to keep using Czech. Writing everything in both languages is a choice too, but that is quite time consuming.
Two things matter:
1) The audience.
2) The information.
Is your information interesting in general or is it a local matter?
Is it something heavily discussed in e.g. English and not noticed enough in Czech?
I like to have a chance for a wider audience, keep consistency and still use my mother tongue. So a result of this will be a blog or a twitter feed (or posterous, or tumblr, .. ) with most posts in English and some in Czech.
What do you think? What is your solution? (in English please ;) )
Simple Firefox extensions useful for web designers
Add-ons on this list are small bits that make my everyday work smoother. Hopefully some of them could help you too.
ScreenGrab
Making various types of screenshots is always necessary. This simple add-on makes it very easy. It can save or copy a whole page, visible portion or selection.
get ScreenGrab
ScreenGrab homepage and info
ColorZilla
This add-on lets you pick colours in various formats (RGB, CMYK, hex). You can also create and save colour palettes and find css code related to specific colour.
get ColorZilla
ColorZilla homepage and info
Wappalyzer
My favourite. Wappalyzer is a website technology detector. It shows you content management system, javascript library or statistics tool a website uses.
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Pigcore is a personal blog of Kateřina Skotalová, Czech Web Designer living in Belgium.
