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Compose your coffee or tea with a colorguide

By Robert ⋅ August 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Mugs to help you mix your favourite brew to just-how-you-like-it by matching the colour guide on the inside.
I think this is a brilliant idea!
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A new option for Designers

By Robert ⋅ August 8, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Being more the visual and not the bracket-dot-hyphen-ampersand-guy gives me headaches from time to time. Following the rising need of customers to alter their content ‘personally’ by setting up, customizing or mashing up large open source CMS like Joomla! or typo3 is time-consuming and not funny. These systems have a huge overhead of functions which […]

Who Needs Headlines - A List Apart

By Robert ⋅ May 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

A very good summup on how to write good headlines can be found in the recent issue of A List Apart by Shaun Crowley. He is the Author of the Freelance Designer’s Self-Marketing Handbook which is avialable on his site. As usual for A List Apart this article delivers a good How-To for the beginner […]

Happy family logo

By Robert ⋅ May 24, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

Yesterday I designed a logo for a client who is working in parent consultancy. It is interesting to look at the basics of an iconesque appearance: what is necessary to have female/male distinction, what can you omit to achieve adequate reduction? I’ll work more on that…
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German Blog redesigned

By Robert ⋅ May 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I managed to finish the coding for my German Blog. Using a Wordpress Theme of Fen was a good start. I recoded some of the CSS and sidebar widgets to accomplish the current look. And of course I used the fabolous icons from IconBuffet. It will cover topics on resources, photography and design in German […]

Elegant portfolio

By Robert ⋅ May 12, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

If you’re not so much into coding and still want a nice looking portfolio of your pictures, design or whatever I found a nice project from Jason Nelson and Dave Gorum called Carbonmade.You can sign up free and produce right from the start 5 different projects with 35 possible images. The design is contemporary and […]

work 4 neon

By Robert ⋅ April 9, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Being proud of my work I have to show you 2 pics of a triptychon I made for a menswear store in Vienna, neon. Size: 3 x 5 meters. Hope you like it.
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