Busy times

It´s gone a bit quiet on here but that doesn’t mean that I’m being lazy. Like so often, when there´s lots going on, there´s no time to blog about it. My self-negotiated ‘prac­tice year’ is com­ing along well and I’m as busy as ever devel­op­ing new skills and exper­i­en­cing the ‘real world’. After a few com­mis­sioned pro­jects like the BiWa web­site, the inter­act­ive e-cards for Alli­anz Group and the logo for c² Con­sult­ing Group, I took a step out of the door of my little stu­dio and went on a work exper­i­ence with City ID in Bris­tol. City ID is a design stu­dio that devel­ops award-winning design, inform­a­tion and way­find­ing solu­tions for cit­ies across the world. They are a multi-disciplinary team from a vari­ety of spe­cial­ist fields includ­ing inform­a­tion design­ers, urban design­ers, illus­trat­ors, car­to­graph­ers, inter­face design­ers and product design­ers to name but a few. I took the oppor­tun­ity to shadow them for four weeks and dip in and out of some of their excit­ing pro­jects. I was also act­ively involved with inform­a­tion plan­ning and research and developed a per­sonal pro­ject with a res­ult that I’m very proud of. What it is will be revealed soon, so watch this space.

Now I’m back at my little stu­dio and work on a couple of web­sites, one of which is the com­plete redesign of paznow.com. My new site will go live in early April and so far it´s look­ing very good and I’m rather excited about it. Until then there prob­ably won’t be much blog­ging, so if you wanna know what´s going on in my life (and the little aches and pains I’m run­ning into) then head over to twit­ter or face­book and sub­scribe to the RSS feed or e-mail updates so you won’t miss the relaunch.