Designing a visual appetizing look to my blog

Since I started my blog, it has annoyed me that I haven't found time to give the design a personal touch.
In this update I will explain how I designed my blog and more importantly why I did it the way I did.

If you've read my blog earlier, you know that I'm not exactly a media guru, but I really like coming up with the idea and even though my adobe skills are limited, I am not going to back down for a bit of photoshopping etc.


1. The concept:
2. The tools:
3. The creation:
4. The final result:
5. Trying to combine the my new QR skills with this result:

Before I get started here is a SS of my blog before I made any changes. Simple, functional, unoriginal and boring:

 And here is the after look:


 

The wonders of QR codes design

In this post I will attempt to make a different and more appealing QR code linking to my blog.

About six month ago I was working with a Danish educational institution, making flyers, poster and signs directing young people to their facebook page. Back then we were suffering from high time pressure and even though I had read a bit about the options for pepping up the QR codes we unfortunately never got to try out the process.
So what better way to spend a late Saturday evening, than to test my skills. Perhaps I'm a master at it!?!
The test will show...

First I Google a few articles about the matter and find what I'm looking for at mashable.com.
It appears rather simple, if you know you're way around Photoshop, but the article mentions something about 0%, 10%, 20% and 30% error rate...?

Designing my @jonashgaard twitter account

Today I took a small step for mankind, but a big step for my own social media appearance!
Yes, you may already have guessed it reading the title ;)

I took a long needed look at the design of my twitter account and came to the conclusion that it was about time to pick up the pieces and redesign the old design.

I finally had some spare time and after browsing through the unlimited articles of the great wide web (See links below) I found had gathered enough inspiration and made enough sketches in Photoshop to get started.


The result you can see at www.twitter.com/jonashgaard and I will here try to give you a detailed explanation of my thoughts behind the design (yes I didn't just make it without having a plan... ;)

To new beginnings...or late ones

I have arrived in picturesque Salzburg, Austria, and are taken away with its beauty and friendly people!

Now I "just" have to find a job that supports and improves my interest in integrated marketing communication.

More to come soon!

Det første ord er altid det sværeste...

Så har jeg sørme fået mig en blog.
Så er det store spørgsmål vist hvor ofte jeg får taget mig sammen til at skrive lidt herinde, men det besvare nok sig selv inden alt for længe...


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