Designing the logo for askmike.org

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As you might have noticed I have a new logo on the right of the website. (Here ->)

I designed this logo myself, not from scratch though. This was my first encounter with Adobe Illustrator. Because of photography I can use Adobe Photoshop quite well but Illustrator is something different. I’d expected it to be very similar because they are both from Adobe and both for graphic creation / manipulation.

Because of my inexperience with the software it took me a couple of hours to create this, were most of the logo came from a vector pack. I’m glad with the results but the best part is just copied from someone else.

In the following weeks I’m getting Illustrator covered on school. When I have some basic skills I’ll redo the logo on my own.

PS. I don’t really have an afro in real life!

Posted at November 26, 2010, under design.

Designing mikevanrossum.com

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Last week I’ve been working on a new personal website about, including my web design portfolio. I haven’t wrote a single line of code yet but I’ve been working on a website wireframe. This is a picture of how the website is going to look made in Photoshop.

first wireframe of mikevanrossum.com

After thinking about it for some time I dropped the design completely and started from scratch. This is what I came up with.

wireframe version 3 for mikevanrossum.com

What do you think?

Posted at November 11, 2010, under design.

Designing my own theme

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I decided I’m going to design my own theme. Using WordPress is easy, just like selecting which theme you like but I want to go a step further and dive into the coding. I know it’s possible to adjust existing templates but that’s where you don’t learn everything, therefor I want to build my own design from the ground up.

I’m going to use this website to document the project. Right now I’m preparing a virtual machine to install WAMP so I can test my code on the fly without having to upload every changed file every time.

Posted at October 26, 2010, under design.