Identity for ToprakveSu, a Turkish hydroponics company. It was fun to do and I like the result. So did they. Check it out on the identity section.

I got to be in a book. A design book. Yay for me. This book (a good 2 kilos btw) is about blogs of designers. It is called BLOGS - Mad about Design, is published by Maomao Publications, a Barcelona based company and Roundpixel got to be a part of it. POIDH follows.

New website and identity for Metropotravel. Check it out on the web section and also on the identity section. .

It’s been almost… wait, wait.. it’s been 2 days since my last update! No, there’s nothing wrong with me, I’m not going to make a habit out of posting oftener - heaven forbid I should do such a thing. I found a couple of icons I made for my girl a while ago and thought they’d make good ..well goodies. Especially since the originals are vectors. So here goes - get it on the goodies page .

Sneak preview:

It’s been a while - again. So here goes : 8 new-ish websites, 6 or 7 identity pieces. As usual, they’re in no particular order, some are really old now… I’ve said that before haven’t I? I’m still working on 3 huge projects and a small one. Hope to finish at least some of them soon enough so that I can do so some things for myself. I forgot the last time I took a picture or drew something just for the heck of it.

I never update as soon as I have something new. Well, not this time. This time I’m putting it out here so that people can see it. Made a website for a milk farm. Got to shoot (photograph) old cows, baby cows and a truck Check it out on the web portfolio page or go right to the website here : ferma de lapte.

My last post was on April 10th. That’s 7 months ago… Damn, time flies when you’re NOT having fun as well.
Oh well - had a lot of work… a few bad things happened, you know - life. But who cares right? According to my stats more than 80% of the people coming to my site do it for the freebies. So.. ok - freebies it is. I have a cute little bug for you - a Nautilus shell.
Also I promise I will try to post more often and add more goodies. And I also promise myself I will update my portfolio as well.

On to the freebie. You can of course get it on the goodies page as usual.

You can see the original drawing and its evolution to vector:

Fun weekend project.
So here goes… Remember when Steve got out the MBA from that manilla folder? We all wow-ed right? Well, turns out my significant other got so wowed she decided she must have one. MBA that is.. not the manilla folder. But lo and behold there’s no sleeve or folder or case for the MBA. Not here in the boons anyways.
So she could either order one from manila mac and wait forever (as it seems they’re all sold out most of the time) or… she could punch her boyfriend in the shins saying “you’re a designer right? you can do better than those dudes.”

So yeah. I got my revenge. I used one of her coats. Leather.. and wonder of wonders - with a leopard underside hah!
Of course it wasn’t enough to have just a sleeve. There’s the adapters, cables and whatnot that need to be carried as well. So I made a pouch too.
This is what came of it.

the buttons are leather too. I found those in my mom’s buttons case. She has this old navy biscuits tin can filled with buttons and needles and such. Things like that are so ubiquitous I’m willing to bet 60% of households worldwide have a tin can filled with buttons (must write essay on tin cans and buttons)

the edges of the sleeve are stiffened with a meter-long piece of IV transfusion tube sewn inside a leather flap. The tube should provide some cushioning too in case the laptop falls on its edge… I hope never to test it. Also since the whole thing was sewn by hand it provided a nice way to cover my not so straight lines.

the open pouch. I figured since the MBA uses Leopard… and since time immemorial leopard print was used to pimp stuff up … well it went well together. You can see some of my less fortunate sewing techniques here. When it’s closed you can’t see the bad parts though

For more (and larger) pics head on to the Sleeve&Pouch Project set on flickr.

It’s been so long since I’ve updated the portfolio I almost forgot what to put up : 8 websites, lots of print stuff, an identity piece. I’m sure there’s more somewhere… but I couldn’t find it. As usual, they’re in no particular order, some are really old now…

I wanted to do something for Halloween. Well I didn’t. I did a few things last year and they should be still good this year as a “special theme ” item. So instead I made the zodiac signs. I just realized last Halloween was also the last time I put anything “free” on the site. I’ll try and do better heh.

Anyway you can get the signs on the Goodies page .