Busy Tom

This year was a great year for me, and it is still 2008. You may, or may have not noticed that things have been pretty quiet in my world. I stepped a bit back from my online activities in the last couple of months as i decided to concentrate on other things. In the lead i graduated in Heidelberg/Germany and finished my study, now it´s xmas-time, so I’ve been out enjoying all the various xmas-parties and social events of the last couple of weeks as well. And it isn´t over yet, where is the grinch when you need him…

The good thing about all of this is that it’s given me a great deal of time to reflect on things i want in my life thought about the year that’s past and what i hope the coming year will bring to me, my friends and family. Sure what i learn and would like to change in my life in the coming year and where i eventually want to be.

What happened so far

However the first thing i really want to release and finish is the launch of my new project, don´t want say too much about it -pls be patient. It’s actually been a pretty boring year for the design of this site. So my other plan is to modify and redesign this page a little bit here, and there. Wished i had done this earlier, but i`m not putting a time frame cause i`ve been very bad with that lately.

In this year i started so many projects, for clients, private and friends, but i’ve never truly finished all of them, especially mine. The main reasons, i wasn’t inspired enough. Had so much to do for my (now ex) girlfriend and client in a cafe and bar here in Innsbruck, so there wasn´t really time to concentrate or finish other designs or prints. My brain and my heart were both so completely and utterly preoccupied with a bunch of other things that I wasn’t feeling that same level of creativity that I felt in years past. The last month showed me that i´ve to concetrate on me first and ever to my life, it´s too important. To work with Mirjam made me very sad the last few month, we had a great time together i think, but it wasn´t meant honestly by her and probably the main reason why it had to brake with us. Maybe i´ll write more on this later, what i´ll show you for sure are the prints and advertising i made for the cafe and bar. Thankfully our father is still fighting against his cancer, impressed by his power and will, he´s a real hero for me. Sometimes i wished i could do more for him, he gave me so muc of love and inspiration over the years, i´ll always be there when he needs me – and he knows that.

Projects

As mentioned above, i work on some projects and the last weeks and months i spend with looking at various omline print services in recent times again. I have already tried print100, but now I have printed with goodprint as well. print100 is still my number 1 when it comes to nice business-cards with a special finishing ( cutting jobs, uv-varnishing…) the price is perfect and the shipping worldwide is free! I’m going to write a full review of this service when schools is over and we go for winterholidays. A month ago I got my first copy from them, my first set of business-cards ever. It took me exactly 8 workdays, from designing to delivering – that included creating a cover and pulling all the images together for a set of testprints too.

Work

It’s been one of the hardest, interesting and most fulfilling year of my life when it comes to work. I have been involved in some awesome projects and I have met so many and nice clients. But life moves on and you learn for everything and the method of how things go and you enhance your knowledge and you pass it down as best you can to the next person in line, for clients and of course in your relations too.

I have began thinking about things in a very different way right now. How to approach filing, how to approach teaching people, how to approach going about getting things done, how to handle and solve problems. I have to quote a friend “I love throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks”. Always challenge, never conform if you’re not happy.