Alex's Projects

Baby was born, I am reworking websites stuff, and what goes where.

This blog will have categories for the following.

Home
Children and Baby Projects
DIY Plans
DIY Finished
Announcements
Illustrator
Podcasting

Home will be related to my new home and projects related to it. Baby will be the same thing but with projects related to the baby. For info on baby shower, ultrasound etc go to the baby's website. link DIY plans will be the ruminations on what I am going to do, and DIY finished for when I have completed a project. The announcements are like this post. The Illustrator is other Adobe Illustrator and Vector stuff. Podcasting is not going to be used for now.

Ok, here we go. I have decided to really try to do at least one entry a week for at least a year. Preferably 2-3 times a week.

The blog will focus on me, my life, and a set of projects. As I am now 28, I want to be somewhat productive this year in my life and get a lot of stuff done. The problem is that I like doing to many random things. So I need to focus somewhat, and work on a set group of things. So I will be doing every project in the book D.I.Y. Design It Yourself



One of the projects is a blog, and another is a website. Both of these will be handled here and I will explain them in another post. I will also be starting a baby blog most likely, which will be co-authored by my wife and will be on our son's website. My wife is due November 2nd.

Some projects I really have already done in the past, but I will find a way to redo them again. Of course my birthday was in June and I have been busy so I am already behind. There are all valid excuses, but still excuses. (Buy a new house, move into a new house, bring up new doctors offices at work, wife is pregnant, go on vacation, etc)

Here is the list of projects from the book. They are not in order because I have grouped some of them by related items.

Blog (your here)
Books -blank
Books -printed
Brand
-Business Cards
-Logos
-Press Kits
-Stationary
CD/DVD label and Case
Embroidery
Paper Products
-Envelopes
-Flyers
-Invitations
-Newsletters
-Note Cards
-Postcards
-Stickers
Gifts
Housewares
Kids & Design
Photo Albums
Presentations
T-Shirts
Tote Bags
Wall Graphics
Web Sites (your here)
Zines

This means 27 projects. At 52 weeks in a year I need a project done a bit shorter than every two weeks. With Christmas coming up, several will be done for December.

Besides being on the web, I have a MoleSkine Notebook for general notes about the projects, and a sketchbook for designs and a larger sketching area. I also am using my new favorite pen, my Black Uniball Signo bit 0.18mm. (not in general US distribution, found an importer)

Entries into this blog will be in several categories, which will be explained in the next post.

Ok, here we go. Heidi is pregnant and we think it is a boy. We are buying a house. And I am starting on a whole bunch of projects.

As for podcasting, I apparently don't have the steam to get it done on a regular basis. Not that anyone was really looking at them, or at least it appeared that way. My current goals for this site are as follows.

1. Update this site regularly, basically placing this blog as the homepage.

2. Get a sub-site up for the baby.

3. Hopefully get this site better connected with my accounts from Flickr, to increase the pictures available.

4. New category of Design it Yourself. More on this in a little bit.