Personal Thoughts and Musings
Posted 14 June 2007, by Aaron
Last night was the private viewing of my end of year show. I donned some smart clothes and exhibited my portfolio of work, in the hope of networking, making connections, and possibly finding freelance work or even employment.
I’ve actually been up since 4am this morning, doing that thing that happens after job interviews where you [...]
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Posted 10 June 2007, by Aaron
Right now, this very instance, I’m fuming! It’s probably a bad idea to come anywhere near my blog in this state of mind, but as it’s been six days since my last post I’ve decided to try out the therapeutic properties of good old fashioned ranting.
Regular readers will be aware that I’ve been very busy [...]
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Posted 27 May 2007, by Aaron
Recently there has been a fair amount of discussion on when to consider yourself a successful designer.
Lauren Marie began the discussion by saying:
I struggle a lot with seeing other designers who have been around for 5 or 10 or 35 years and thinking “Gosh, I wish I my designs were that good.” It’s hard to [...]
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Posted 24 May 2007, by Aaron
If you’re wondering if I’ve disappeared off the face of the planet… I haven’t. My end of year exhibition begins on Wednesday 6 June, so for the past week I’ve done little else other than finishing unfinished projects and preparing for the exhibition.
miLienzo.com has gone four days without a post, my Google Reader has got [...]
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Posted 7 May 2007, by Aaron
Ben Yoskovitz of the Instigator Blog recently started the ultimate guide to productivity meme, and lucky me, I’ve been tagged by StevieB of Lost in Cyberspace to share my productivity tips.
At this moment in time, outside of my already busy full-time job, I also have two college projects and an interactive CV that needs to [...]
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Posted 18 April 2007, by Aaron
My suitcase is packed, I’ve checked my tickets, passport, and toothbrush, and I’m off. To Madrid to be precise.
Things might be a little quiet round here for the next week, but don’t delete me from your RSS reader just yet. I’ll be back next week, hopefully with a few photos of Madrid to show off [...]
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Posted 10 April 2007, by Aaron
I’m a fairly quiet, unassuming, easy to get along with and easy going kind of chap. Yet, there are some things in life that make me want to shout at the top of my voice, “LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!”
It happened in 1995 when I won the 100M sprint at the school sports day, [...]
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Posted 25 March 2007, by Aaron
Every minute of every day, my brain is chugging away thinking of things. Usually I’m thinking of things that are irrelevant to the task I’m actually performing. Most of the time, in fact, my thoughts are centered around things I need to be doing in the future, like the interview I’m having tomorrow, or the [...]
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Posted 1 February 2007, by Aaron
Welcome to the new look miLienzo.com. I’ve spent many hours over the last two weeks hunched over my keyboard, firstly sussing out WordPress, which is an excellent piece of kit and much better than the blog software I was using on the old site, and secondly creating a custom skin for the site from scratch.
I’ve [...]
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