Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  •  

    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
    Source: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  •  

    „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
    Source: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  • 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

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • Switched back to using my own name on tumblr.

    This is me acknowledging this change.

    I’m not writing this after hours, but I will maintain this blog as an after‑hours blog.

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

  • I see my rooms and spaces in the way a Captain sees his ship, or an engineer maintaining his machinery, but seeing useful rooms as tools seems apt as well. Ffffound on aredotna #asca https://www.are.na/peter-pelberg/room-as-a-tool

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • Inspired by that one person who uses my IFTTT applet “Mastodon Backup to OneNote and OneDrive” I’ve published another one of the applets I use for my own backup system: this time I’ve published the one I use for backing up my Instagram posts to OneNote (as a page), and to OneDrive (as a jpeg and the post’s text as txt file.

    You can check it out here, and scroll the screenshot below to see how it works.

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

  • Updated my social archiving system to only store the mastodon posts containing the hashtag because storing everything would just be a waste.
    Did I tell you that I use the service for that?

    Source: My Mastodon Instance Mario Breskic

  • @mariobreskic:

    The post about repairing things, and why you as a creative might want to stay away from other creatives online, on social media: tl;dr, because content creators can choke the creativity out of you. Itʼs kind of what they do. asca

    https://ift.tt/Fy5nWrX

    Source: My Threads Account Mario Breskic

    • Since last week, my sleep has strangely split across two days at an interval, and now I am considering cutting down on caffeine for a while
    • The process of not worrying about things I can only worry at and over is progressing nicely
    • Taking inventory of my shop, found out I can just switch off my laptop’s keys and put my drawing tablet right on top of the keyboard, like a very expensive poor man’s Wacom Mobile Studio, if that makes sense; or just a laptop with a drawing tablet instead of a keyboard­−bonus: the keys are not being pressed either. Lucky!
    • Moved most of my ecosystem to Microsoft’s solutions, aside from graphic design software, which is still pretty much work in progress; there’s something entirely perverted about regular Windows users, where they use the OS, but shun all other products by Microsoft, especially in Germany
    • Turned a coffee table into a sort‑of Japanese sitting and reading affair; I want to tell you how much I enjoy sitting and working at this thing but I don’t know if that would make sense to you
    • Also taking stock of all the software manuals for my graphic design software I have and use; if you ask me, I am building up to something but I could not tell you to what−we’ll see if reading e. g. the Corel Painter 2019 manual in 2025 makes sense

    Note: in case you are like me, you were interested in investing in the Wacom ExpressKey Remote Accessory (ACK-411050), but if you are even more like me, you just realized that by looking at your Intuos Pro you already have its functionality integrated.

    It’s kind of like realizing that by using a keyboard with your iPad and Procreate, you can access a couple of shortcuts at the press of a key: there’s a lot to be said for understanding which tools you already own allow for additional affordance.

    Time for camomile tea and a cookie or two. Of course I am moving to that coffee table now and getting back to reading. It is just so nice to get away from the gaming‑chair‑and‑laptop‑seated‑at‑a‑table situation.

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

Schließe dich 900+ Abonnenten an

Bleibe auf dem Laufenden mit allem, was du wissen musst.

Registrieren