Honestly, I created this advert for fun! If I had a client who asked for a blackberry advert… they wouldn’t get this for sure! I was looking around for inspiration, and received a text. I remembered looking for hours at fake phone adverts on an art site, and loving them!

I know I took this a little too far, though! I was completely in the zone, adding element after element, and evidently in a girly mood. I didn’t say I’d have to do a perfect design every day, did I?

I am finding it especially hard to design something every single day, as designing is usually an output of all bad energy for me. If I want to turn this into a career I need to stop this. It is also hard to balance designing with my other passion (or trainee passion perhaps!), developing. I have the urge to create a site from scratch a lot. Can someone invent a machine giving me more than twenty four hours in a day please? Thanks.

After three hours of playing about in Paint Shop Pro 8 (and then moving over to Photoshop, surprisingly!) from 11am to 2pm, here is what I came up with. The images in the example text are illustrations I did years ago, which is quite fun I think! The strong points of this design are the colours, however I do think that the layout needs refining.

I recently stumbled upon Smashing Magazine’s article about designing something every single day. For an incredible procrastinator like myself, it is the ultimate challenge – let’s get a super hero cape on that phrase in our imaginations. I want to stretch myself, and be able to readily design something without putting so much thought into each piece. I also hope that it will improve the amount of ideas I get, so I don’t have to go through such a gruelling creative process!

Naturally, I waited a few months from reading the article, cowering from the fear of failure, design competency and generally shrivelling at the thought of doing something productive every day – it would be like a job! As time went by, the design addict inside me questioned why I didn’t jump at the chance and start a blog to document the process. Why didn’t I? I hadn’t got a blog design, of course.

I am hesitant to admit that now I do, and have done for quite a while, being scared at productiveness is simply not good enough for a portion of me. I am going to laugh in the face of fear and go through with it anyway. Am I mad?

We shall see. I shakily cut the ribbon on this blog and hope for the best. Comments may provide motivation, so are appreciated!