kartooner

For the past few days I’ve been work­ing dili­gently on a brand spank­ing new design for this site, as the cur­rent design has always been meant as a tem­po­rary place­holder. When I say brand spank­ing, I mean it, as it will include pre­vi­ous ele­ments I’ve used in other site incar­na­tions (mainly heaps of beige) and for the first time in this site’s his­tory there will be an “art­work” sec­tion. (Oooh.)

One of the main rea­sons for this realign­ment “re-envisioning” is that I’d like to tie the blog together with my other domain, eriksagen.com which includes a work­ing port­fo­lio and a resume for the time being. Even­tu­ally there will be a slick com­pany site in place of what’s there now, but that’s far off a bit.

Brand­ing is cru­cial to me at this point and has worked well for other peo­ple, like Jon Hicks, Veerle Pieters, Dan Ceder­holm (and Mike David­son) to name a few. There’s an instant famil­iar­ity and con­nec­tion when you visit these sites and that’s inten­tional, so bring­ing every­thing under one roof (albeit a some­times leaky one) is impor­tant to me.

Back to my men­tion­ing an art­work sec­tion, I’ve decided to beef up my port­fo­lio. Over the years it’s become, well, a bit stag­nant due to other pri­or­i­ties and dis­trac­tions tak­ing focus. How­ever, shov­ing all that aside briefly, I’ll be putting up art­work from the past, present and future, which will be the present by the time I hang them up in a dig­i­tal gallery.

Many thanks to the hand­ful of sup­port­ers over the past few months (even you, Anton) for encour­ag­ing me to do this, espe­cially since I adver­tise that I’m an illus­tra­tor and yet have very lit­tle to show for it. Who would’ve thunk?

In a nut­shell, things will be chang­ing for the bet­ter around these parts.

That’s all folks!