Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • I believe that a brand is basically built in reverse: you start with the brand and then you design the steps needed to increase the likelihood of someone else calling you that. See this for a better visual https://www.threads.com/@mariobreskic/post/DGOI0EvNPx_ #asca

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  • Will look into it in 14 days when the trial period for Zapier expires. #asca

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  • @mariobreskic:

    Mail me in a week from now, asking me how many pages I am currently able to read each day asca

    Source: My Threads Account Mario Breskic

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    Beautiful
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  • Note to self: LUA is cool

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  • Website changes, website changed. I’ve spent the last two days moving my WordPress website away from using a theme I bought three years ago.

    My reasoning for doing so was that this theme cripples what I can do with my website. This needs an explanation and context.

    When I use a theme, this theme is made by a web designer who earns money that way. So whenever a theme has been made, it carries its own trends with it: trends date websites the same way Carbon isotopes date fossils.

    My theme relied on a couple of plugins.

    It relied on external resources, loading external files. So when you went to my website, it didn’t load as quickly as it should’ve despite being mostly empty.

    My theme made using my website complicated, even for me.

    So I went with the current WordPress default theme, adjusted a few things my website does, updated its content and I am more content with the way it works now. I have added the same easy way to be able to navigate from post to post you’ve already seen on my Social Media archival site: default is below the posts but that is dumb, so I put it on top, like here

    Below a few screenshots of what is currently going on my actual website.

    I am not sure about the typography but so far it’s actually legible.

    All in all, it feels more like my own website now.

    I wanted to write “shame about the money” for the theme, but I honestly don’t feel that way. Having paid for it made me realize that I never liked to use it.

    Which makes sense, if you think about what a theme actually is.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

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    Just brewed my first cup of white tea and studied a few books again. A more relaxed afternoon than I’ve been used to for a while. This change I welcome. I liked the way my coffee table looked and didn’t want to overthink it. Shot with my trusty Samsung S10, lightly edited and cropped in Lightroom.
    #books #whitetea #coffeetable #booktower Written with #typotasten keyboard
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    „Forms in Japan“ von Kōjiro,
    „Gestaltung, Methode und Konsequenz“ von Kapitzki, „Graphic Design Manual“ von Hofmann, „Dokumente zur visuell‑gestalterischen Grundlagenausbildung“ von Zitzmann (auch bekannt als ‚Grundlagen visueller Gestaltung‘ auf dem Umschlag), „Gestaltungslehre“ von Bleckwenn und Schwarze, „Visuelle Kommunikation“ von Stankowski et al. und „Praxishandbuch Gestaltungsraster” von Maxbauer und @andreasmaxbauer sind Material der kommenden Wochen. #gläserneslabor #studywithme #lebenslangeslernen #adulteducation #virtualcoworkwithme
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  • A little experimentation is always part of life. Mine, and I am certain of it, yours too.

    I have plugged in my typographer’s keyboard and treat this as a new kind of practice.

    Today was spent on undoing one of my own experiments: I’d added colored stickers to the spines of those books which were reading and study material during my graphic design study.

    But, unlike the patches of colored paper, the system I use didn’t stick. I actually can’t even recall the colors properly: green was for design, blue was for? And black? Was black some kind of foundational knowledge?

    So armed with soapy water, a toothbrush­−and later one of those nail‑polishing devices run on batteries−I’ve spent the afternoon and the early evening on removing these stickers.

    For the most part, this worked fine with most books, but some types of coated papers proved more rugged than others. Would be interesting to know which were which. Maybe some other time for researching?

    But what I’ve noticed was my complete disregard for separating work time from leisure time: I don’t think that I’m enjoying doing menial things like removing stickers. But I think I believe that getting things done today, at the expense of leisure, is better than continuing tomorrow.

    There are those among you reading this who already know how flawed this kind of “work ethos” truly is. And there are those who will be surprised by how burning out and working overtime are connected.

    I for one believe that this idea of doing as many things as possible in one day has hindered my own development more than anything else has: if I overdo it today, I will not regenerate in time until tomorrow comes around.

    I will use this spot on the web as my after‑hours blog where I can reflect a little about how I progress and change, both as a graphic designer and as a student of design.

    I have a schedule for myself. I have office hours. And I want to also have days where I can use an out‑of‑office message because I need to focus on a particular tough design or skill issue.

    And boy, are there many of those!

    I’ll keep track of my hours and learn to switch modes from work to free time more easily. I have an incredible log‑keeping book for that, made by a German company, which I barely used these last weeks because I simply did not reserve the time for myself. I’ll see to change that asap.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • I am in the workshop for the whole afternoon, removing stickers from books. Stickers someone applied to these books. Someone who is now very sorry he did that in the first place instead of using something sensible, like Zotero or Bridge for tagging. #asca

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