Review: About Design by Gordon Salchow - Vanseo Design
I recently received a review copy of About Design, by Gordon Salchow. Here are my thoughts about a wonderful book about design.| Vanseo Design
When I started writing this post, I began by wishing you a happy new year, but I have a feeling the statute of limitations on holiday greetings has run out, so I’ll simply wish you a happy day. It’s been awhile, more than an entire year since I last published something on this site. In fact the last two posts I published were my year end review for 2019 and my goal setting post at the start of 2020. While I skipped both of those posts this year, I thought I should at least fill you on whe...| Vanseo Design
Happy New Year! I hope I’m not too late with the warm wishes now that we’re already a week into 2020. It’s just the way the calendar worked out for when New Year’s fell and when I routinely publish. This, being the first post of the year, is the one in which I set goals for the year ahead. Last week I reviewed the goals I set in last January’s version of this very post. I mentioned how one of my overall goals for the year quickly changed and I allowed myself a little time to sit bac...| Vanseo Design
Happy Holidays! Here we are again at the end of the year and closing in on the start of another. As is my tradition, I like to spend the last few weeks of each year looking back at what I accomplished and then setting goals for the following year. I’ve been writing these and similar review and goal setting posts for a long time because I think it’s a helpful exercise to plan a direction and see how well you adhered to the plan. There’s a lot to learn both in what you accomplish and what...| Vanseo Design
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone living in the U.S. and Happy Thursday to those of you living elsewhere. I’m in New York visiting family and as we do most year’s we spent yesterday walking around Manhattan and taking in the sights and museums and as I do most year’s I thought I would share a few pictures from the day. Window Displays Macy’s is only a block away from Penn Station and so it’s naturally our first stop. This year Macy’s had different displays along different sides of th...| Vanseo Design
It’s all too easy to get locked into seeing things a certain way and to get stuck thinking that way is the only one, even when the evidence suggests another course might make more sense. I think you’d agree it’s better to be open to more than one possibility, especially when it comes to anything with a creative component. You grow by pushing past your boundaries, by challenging your existing thought and ways of seeing, by being open to new possibilities and new ways of doing the same ol...| Vanseo Design
At the close of last week’s post I mentioned that working on a new site for myself has reinvigorated a little of the old passion for design and development. While I was very hesitant to start working on the site again, I’ve had a lot more fun than I expected since I’ve been writing code. I wasn’t looking forward to it all. I came up with a design a few years ago that I mostly liked. It wasn’t quite what I wanted and probably still isn’t, but I liked it well enough. I had an idea f...| Vanseo Design
Last week I talked about how I’ve been stalling and stalling and stalling when it comes to building a new site about writing and creativity. I also told you how the time had finally come where I couldn’t avoid it anymore and I’ve been surprised to find I’m enjoying myself more than expected. I revisited a couple of reasons why I decided to stop taking on clients a few years ago, namely some lessons I extrapolated from an article by Ben Thompson about the smiling curve, and some though...| Vanseo Design
Ever since I made the transition from being a freelance designer developer to a full time writer I’ve been wanting to build another website, specifically for topics about writing and other creative pursuits. I purchased a domain a few years ago, set up a newsletter signup form, and I’ve regularly written and sent an essay every month or so, but I keep putting off launching a full site year after year. Created by Rico Shen for Wikipedia In large part it’s because a site will require anot...| Vanseo Design
In my look ahead goal setting post at the start of the month I mentioned I might need a break writing for this site and I while offered some reasons in that post I thought I should explain in a little more detail. The explanation includes some general productivity thoughts about how I’ve decided what I need to work on and why that might leave this site empty of new content for a time. This way if you aren’t too interested in the specifics of my situation, there should still be something h...| Vanseo Design
I recently received a review copy of About Design, by Gordon Salchow. Here are my thoughts about a wonderful book about design.| Vanseo Design
