Category Archives: Thinking

Life in Perpetual Planning

I have a lot of personal projects I want to work on. I keep a list (and bare in mind that some of these ideas might be gargantuan projects, some might be small “do in a weekend” type projects) and right now I have about 35 things I wish I could work on. Sometimes it […]

An example of how important colour is and what a difference it can make

A self-doubting designer gathers no moss
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been playing around with an idea for a new davidamcclain dot com design (instead of doing something useful with my time).
I started with this study in light grey and understatement. Based around an idea I had of simple squared logo. The menu links […]

iTunes-mini

Last night my Time Machine drive kinda went bye-bye and it forced my to delete a bucket load of files on my system’s drive to make way for a folder I kept on that drive of design work…shoot! Where did all my music work go? I feel sick. Oh crap!
OK, panic over! I had mysteriously […]

In The Red Deeps site refresh - update

Just a quick update on what I’ve done so far. As I said in the last post, I had some functional changes to do to make things a little easier on the user.

Archive/mp3s: I merged the Archive and mp3 sections into one called music. I relabelled the mp3 blossom to music, and switched off the […]

In The Red Deeps site refresh

In The Red Deeps dot com is the oldest site I currently have online. I went back to it the other day to see if I could come up with some ideas to make it a little better. I found that I liked the overall look and feel of the site, but didn’t like the […]

How I stumbled into web design.

I’ll tell you the story of the second time. The first time was a long time ago, it was temporary, and it doesn’t really count.

So.

One day I realized that in the past two years I hadn’t much to show for myself in regards to my music. I had written very little, and what I did […]

Intro

Amongst the various things I try to be and the many hats I try to wear, at the heart of everything, is the desire to create something. Musician is the one hat that trumps everything in terms of importance to me. It’s more a part of me than anything else could ever be and yet […]