yup. its been a while, but the new place is all set up and i’ve settled in quite nicely, just need to get a couple plants to add some colour. some curtains might help to. for the past while i have pretty much just been bumming around gathering ideas, but its been tough actually getting back into design. yes i work and design all day, but interface design is quite a bit different than the design work i was doing during school. i’m struggling to get back the mentality i had during school. there are many different factors that have contributed to this sluggish mentality. pretty much my previous living situation really drained me and there was never any real time i could sit down and focus when i had the chance or wanted to. then i was stuck in my parents basement for 2 months in a not so productive environment. then away for the holidays and then spent january moving and weekends away.

getting motivate lately has been really hard. surfing design sites for hours after work has only really put lots of ideas in my head but no passion to sit down for hours and do them. so to help iv decided to read some books iv read before that i got during school. what read textbooks? nop, designer monograph books. i’ve been reading “tell me why” by karlssonwilker, and i’ll read sagmeister’s books after, before i order his new one (things i have learned in my life so far) when its available sometime in march when the order i just placed arrives next week :P.

one thing that i think is effecting me is the environment that my studio station is set up in. i think it needs a little more life to it and personality. the new teknision space is very energetic and bright and open, where my station at home is somewhat tight, constrained in a corner and mixed it with to many other things. i don’t seem to shy away from sitting around on the pc at home which is in the living room and right by the big open windows, and in a much more open space. which makes me think that its a environment setting issue. what solutions do i have. not many. there isn’t much space in the living room for two stations. why not swap them? i have the pc on all day and night doing stuff, where the g5 i put to sleep at night so its nice and quiet sleeping. i had both machines in the same room when i was at the uplands house, out of the bedroom, because we had an extra space for the living room on the main floor. so i’m down one room this time around so iv had to mix things together.

trying to de-clutter the desk and add some personality and brightness to the desk might be my best bet for now. maybe change the orientation of the monitor so that its not a solid wall behind it so it doesn’t seem like i’m in a confined corner. then maybe i’ll spend more than 15 minutes there at at time thinking about doing something, before gallivanting off to the pc or 360 for some entertainment in a more inviting space.

stupid green desk and its corner’ness

had a chance to take some pics of the new place i’m in downtown. there are still some things to get and finish up, need a real couch and some curtains etc.

flickr album

was going to wait to put them up when i got the new blog/site designs done and up. but that will take a while longer. iv been busy almost consistently since i got back in january from the holidays. so there will be a bit update on whats been happening soon…. (again i say soon)