I am a Christian, husband to my beautiful wife & best friend of nine years and father of three adorable children.
I use this website to log my thoughts, happenings & whatnot. Sometimes my posts are work or web-related & sometimes they are family-related or just random.
I produce creative design and code for a living at Visual Notion.
We've been extremely blessed to have received so much work from word of mouth the past six years, but I've noticed I need to be doing more work on the marketing front to get the type of projects I'm interested in.
I've been working on some new things for my company website. This will include more graphics for the site itself and is something I don't always have the time for, but need to make the time to just get some of my ideas finished to stand out more in a rather flooded market.
I've been looking for design inspiration outside of anything online, lately. Lunchtime provided me with great color inspiration for some fall-based designs. Here's my lunchtime color inspiration palette:
There were five main items I've chosen for this palette. See if you can guess which color matches the brands/products I ate that are listed below (alphabetically):
First off, thank you to all who have been voting for my Vitamin Water label design and flavor name on Facebook every day.
1) Login to Facebook
2) Go here: http://apps.facebook.com/flavorcreator/
3) Click on the black and pink "Vote for Bottle" button and search for "eric124" and vote for Blimey.
Voting is open until Oct. 20th. You can vote every 24 hours. Please keep it up!
After tithe and taxes, a portion of winnings will go towards helping Southcrest Christian School purchase supplies. It's a great school and I would appreciate your help in supporting it!
PLEASE pass it along the vote request and share with others.
I know I've been gifted with abilities in the realm of logo design, graphic design, layout, web design, CSS, and Drupal. I recognize that part but, I've never fancied myself as awesome or truly great at it, by any means. It's an interesting dichotomy as I know the talent is there, but the vast majority of the time, I don't feel as though I'm truly good at it. (Come to think of it, I've always felt the same way about playing the guitar too, despite playing for seventeen years)
Anyway, I do make my living as a designer and developer (well, I don't even feel I can call myself that even if I do Drupal installs, custom configurations, complex theming and CSS work). It pays the bills and I like what I do, but I've always noticed that I have an inferiority complex about it. It's much more noticeable when I look at the work of others. Now, I know you can be brought low by comparing yourself to others if you're not careful, but I don't think that's always a bad thing. If nothing else it helps keep your ego in check.
I just don't understand why I've always felt this way, though.
