Front end web development is one of the things I enjoy doing. Taking a psd file, code it to a live webpage, make it responsive and adaptive, man it just gives me a rush. Learning web languages, mobile technologies, VPS, webservers, those are the things I need to study everyday its like being a student all over again. But I dont mind, technologies get obsolete in the blink of an eye so adapt or get left behind.
Take a printed book like a children's book, spend hours thinking a logical way on how to make it interactive in digital format such as epub3 or a more complex kindle format is the kind of challenge that keeps me awake at night. The more complicated it gets the more I enjoy it. Making epubs compatible across different platforms, mobis accross different kindles then uploading them to different distribution channel is another challenging job but something I'm good at.
I've been doing desktop publishing for almost a decade now using different tools. I started in 3B2 an xml first typesetting tool, then QuarkXPress and finally InDesign, which I immediately fell inlove with. I developed different workflows and even various javascripts and templates to make things easier for production people. Im a font and typography enthusiast so designing and customizing font is also one of my expertise.
Being a designer is the hardest career in my opinion. You may know how to use the entire adobe master collection but still you could end up staring at a blank canvass the whole day and still cant come up with a good design. I worked with different people on different projects and I realized one can not be good at coding and being good at design the same time. So I figured I need to keep it balanced. Designing posters, brochures, flyers, motion graphics, are the things I enjoy doing to keep me on the edge.
I created books, digital publications, corporate brandings & graphic designs , websites, programs/webapps, and a few motion graphics and animations View all
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