Just ordered some new glasses last night from Warby Parker. Their web experience was great! super simple ordering simple and they communicate in a fun way instead of the stiff “business” language. definitely worth checking out! Can’t wait to get them in :-)
I have decided since I have a huge fear of things touching my eyeballs and will probably never get contacts… To collect as many frames and glasses as possible.. Defiantly love the vintage approach and the price for these frames!
So I’m kind of at a crossroads right now. I have been freelancing for almost 3 year, when I started out I thought it would be fun to pretend to be a “company” but now after building clients and seeing how life is as a freelancer I’m thinking of dropping my “company” and being a self branded name… I admit “ThePureDesign” is lame, SEO is Terrible, and other then me being obsessed with minimal things it really does not mean anything to me.
where as my name… is hard to spell?
Help? insight?
I guess I’m just caught between building a business or building a brand on my name…
Thinking today… there are a lot of negative folks in the world. I hate hate hate hearing how “bad my life is”. “Oh really? your day is sucking because your car is in the shop… Oh yes your car… the one out of the three you own? man… I feel bad for you.”
Growing up I was always inspired by my father. He was/is the coolest old guy I know. There are five kids in my family (I’m the middle) and he worked as a “wallpaper specialist” (i.e. wallpaper hanger). Honestly he was the man at it. perfect precision, patterns always match, and cuts where straight. I always remembered him coming home late in the day smelling like wallpaper paste, carrying one of these Stanly Lunch box coolers. over the 20 years it was beat to high heaven but it was always by his side. Ran across this and immediately brought back the smell of wallpaper paste and my childhood.
My wife Got me an iPhone 4 for my birthday.. I’m loving the upgrade from my crapped out 3G. I thought I would take a few seconds of clips throughout the day and try out the new iMovie iPhone app. I was surprised with the speed, and ease of editing. plus the quality turned out pretty good at 720p.. obviously you can tell which shots I took with the front facing camera. As you can see as a designer I don’t live to exciting of a life… But I get to do what I love. and spend it with the one girl I love.
I’m currently In Colorado Springs, CO. My grandmother passed last weekend so we flew out to be here for the funeral and with the family. I will miss her greatly.
Just got back home from a week of The Orange Conference… my feet are hurting and my mind is blown. I almost forgot to take photos of some of the designs I did.. luckily I was able to snap a few with my phone.. sorry for the low res.. un coolness of them.
