Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • What I use linkwarden for and a chat with Grok about Graphic Designer Combat

    Linkwarden is my private Pocket, my Raindrop I run myself. In it, I recently started storing web pages I want to read over the weekend.

    And since my interests are seemingly singular (because graphic design is vast), I look forward to seeing it grow into another kind of reading corner, another kind of digital garden.

    This is basically my workflow: all I do feeds back into what I do. In a sense, I am always inspired, always in a state of flow, as long as I do what I do and what comes naturally to me.

    I just need to stay the hell away from the loop of destruction for long enough, so that I can grow forests out of my gardens, if you know what I mean.

    Somewhere else, I had a chat with Grok about what Grok knows about Graphic Designer Combat, where one graphic designer fights another graphic designer and who wins, gets all the powers and knowledge of the defeated graphic designer.

    It turns out that Grok doesn’t know much about it (who knew? we did, of course, because we keep this hush‑hush), but he ended up recommending me two very interesting graphic designers: Domantė Nalivaikaitė and Piper Ferrari, albeit in the strangest way ever (insinuating I could best either of them in Graphic Design Combat! Grok is off its silicon rocker!)

    Check out their work!

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

  • It bears repeating: according to the handbook for designers Iʼm currently reading, the two main reasons for designers becoming incapable of doing their work, are

    1. mental health
    2. back problems.

    If you ask me, your dear proprietor of Code and Canvas, the after-hours tumblog about this and that, these issues are caused by self-neglect.

    Maybe collecting more data on health in the workplace, especially as self-employed designers is a good idea?

    I have some notes on how to set up my workplace ergonomically, and a few others about how to avoid feeling like shit.

    Iʼll see where these notes lead to, say in six months from now.

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

  • Vorgründungszeit beginnt. Danke an @bdg_de @fb_gestaltungundmedien_diploma @wochenorientierte_zeitplanung @tilostaudenrausch (der sich nicht taggen lässt, weil wir nicht einander folgen, was meine Schuld ist 😅) und @ariane.konzepterin für die beste Unterstützung und Transformation vom Amateur zum Profi.
    #kommunikationsdesign #freiberufler #gestalter
    Source: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  • The staying power of services like Goodreads has impressed me. It is 2025 and despite certain other projects, it is still around.

    I decided to use it, signed up, got my own vanity url, added the next 9 books I want to read after finishing Bernays’ Propaganda (which is a very good book for graphic designers and communication designers, I think).

    I have decided to see my work as a graphic designer as entrepreneurial: I need to nurture contacts, mutual respect, I need to invest in my own education, and I need to maintain myself as professionally as I can.

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

  • Spent a few free minutes here and there to slowly work through my Instagram bookmarks. My goal is to save each one locally, tag each in Adobe Bridge for ease of use, and to add these to my visual library I’ve been building since, let me see–June 2024.

    Eventually, I will work through all of my social media bookmarks and actually stop using these altogether. There is enough space on my laptop for my own, and I think when you tag things yourself, they end up making sense to you.

    Kind of like how you set up your own workshop.

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

  • codeandcanvas:

    codeandcanvas:

    Understood the value of separating a production from a development environment in regards to my own website.

    Following a tip from a very good friend, it is a good idea to have a website without tracking on it if you, like me, are still just running a personal website, rather than a commercial one.

    So, I’ll do it like this: I will keep my personal website as is while I will keep working on my new website, using a different url to the one I am for my website.

    So, when I am done with the new, I can just switch.

    Fingers crossed, I don’t have all my books with me, so I’m playing this by intution alone.

    Using Plesk and my backups, I could easily roll back my changes to a day prior to what I did today.

    I am sort of digging how clean I made my website in regards to it doing any kind of tracking.

    I might keep this for my fraidycat people, instead of throwing it away: when I do the switch, I think I want to have a failsafe version of my website around. Like putting it into failsafe.mariobreskic.de or even old.mariobreskic.de (safe.mariobreskic.de sounds semiotically best, I just realized), doing some easy mirroring of content between the future new website and the one without tracking.

    Why do I want this? My good friend, I want out of my own behavioural loop of creation and oblivion: I want creation now, only, the oblivion comes later anyhow.

    I have this thing, where I work on something, always.

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

  • codeandcanvas:

    Understood the value of separating a production from a development environment in regards to my own website.

    Following a tip from a very good friend, it is a good idea to have a website without tracking on it if you, like me, are still just running a personal website, rather than a commercial one.

    So, I’ll do it like this: I will keep my personal website as is while I will keep working on my new website, using a different url to the one I am for my website.

    So, when I am done with the new, I can just switch.

    Fingers crossed, I don’t have all my books with me, so I’m playing this by intution alone.

    Using Plesk and my backups, I could easily roll back my changes to a day prior to what I did today.

    I am sort of digging how clean I made my website in regards to it doing any kind of tracking.

    I might keep this for my fraidycat people, instead of throwing it away: when I do the switch, I think I want to have a failsafe version of my website around. Like putting it into failsafe.mariobreskic.de or even old.mariobreskic.de (safe.mariobreskic.de sounds semiotically best, I just realized), doing some easy mirroring of content between the future new website and the one without tracking.

    Why do I want this? My good friend, I want out of my own behavioural loop of creation and oblivion: I want creation now, only, the oblivion comes later anyhow.

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

  • Understood the value of separating a production from a development environment in regards to my own website.

    Following a tip from a very good friend, it is a good idea to have a website without tracking on it if you, like me, are still just running a personal website, rather than a commercial one.

    So, I’ll do it like this: I will keep my personal website as is while I will keep working on my new website, using a different url to the one I am for my website.

    So, when I am done with the new, I can just switch.

    Fingers crossed, I don’t have all my books with me, so I’m playing this by intution alone.

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

  • I’ve come to the next iteration of what I am doing, so let me write those things down.

    I’ve worked through my digital library of graphic design pdfs. These pdfs were all acquired during my graphic design study, some even afterwards. All of these books (leaving out the ones I could neither obtain legally as a pdf, nor as a book, without seriously paying way too much) came from study material during my study.

    And I have worked through three‑and‑a‑half semesters of reading material in preparation for what is next: me reading all these books.

    To make this work in a way which helps me become the best graphic designer I can be, I have used Adobe Bridge to add keywords to these pdfs, with each class having its own keyword.

    And there are books which are far more often referred to as in‑depth reading material than others: these I see as either very basic or very important, a difference which at this point makes little sense to make, I confess. Some of these books have four to six classes referencing them, while most belonging to one or two.

    And what I think is fairly unique about my study at my alma mater is, that some books are required reading material, with sort of like a guide of which chapters to read. So I’ve marked those in Adobe Bridge with a rating of five stars, in order to easily find them.

    With having said all of that, the next few weeks will be spent a little differently than the ones before this what I now realize is a milestone for me: now that I have created the order I need, I will spend more time on reading and applying the knowledge read, which in turn makes me return to an older system of keeping track in public of what I am doing­—to post less often.

    I expect to change how I use my social media accounts in the future as well: to treat social media as a serious marketing tool for my own work. I think that will come with how serious I treat this process ahead of me.

    And, you ask, what are these books I have mentioned?

    They are about working scientifically, entrepreneurial management, online marketing, a book about visual information and communication, screen and interface design, a book about digital photography, media design, and finally a book about design foundations.

    I think you can mix your own post‑degree study with these bits of information.

    And sure enough, it has been a year since my degree, this is just the next thing I need to do in order to become an entrepreneur.

    See you next time!

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

  • “The excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab comes close to the ideal fulfillment we all hope to get from life, and so rarely do. Perhaps only sex, sports, music, and religious ecstasy—even when these experiences remain fleeting and leave no trace—provide as profound a sense of being part of an entity greater than ourselves. But creativity also leaves an outcome that adds to the richness and complexity of the future.”

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