The Filipino Web Designer

A half-geek, half-artist’s creatively nerdy journal on design and blogging

12
Jul 2006
Creative distractions
Posted in Musings by Gail at 11:38 pm | 2 Comments »

I’ve been so distracted lately. It’s obvious, isn’t it? I haven’t been updating this blog for quite a while now.

Aside from work and this secret “project” I’m working on for this blog (promise, it’s coming soon!), site rippers have been getting on my nerves lately. The first one is still under “negotiations” between our company‘s Marketing Director and the person’s PR guy, so I still can’t blog about it… YET. The second one is actually just a nuisance I can’t seem to be rid of, and I’ve pretty much vented out about it on my personal blog. With so many things going on in my mind right now, even my fiance, Marc, is beginning to wonder how in the world I’m still able to design for work.

Well, blame it on this startup business my sister, Marc and I are working on. Filipino Artisans is primarily focused on providing novelty invitations and souvenirs with a native Filipino touch (we make use of native materials). It’s still not my full-time job (web design will always be my first love), but working on invitation orders is a great creative fix. Staying too long in front of the computer is not only bad for your eyes and ass (it’s literally a PAIN in the ass… UGHH. Bad pun), but it can also be a source of a creative block. Doing arts and crafts every once in a while helps the creative juices to flow… Specially when you most need it.

I’ve been getting some emails asking me how I manage to keep on designing (thank you for those, by the way… They’re very comforting after a week of dealing with damn rippers)… Well, there’s your answer :) My secret: arts and crafts (and no, it isn’t always about sex :D )


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2 Responses:

Tom said:

Hi. IE7 is making the dapit hapon theme put the tagline under the image below it. Is there anyway we can fix this?

Thanks.


Web Hosting Reviews said:

I have always wondered about this. Nice to see other designers feel the same way. Take care


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