Mark Poppen

To clarify, DFF stands for “Design for fun”. That said, I also have to confess I cheated a little on this. I designed this card before my post about designing for fun, but whatever. I liked doing it, and it wasn’t a business thing.

My cousin Kim and her hubby Gerr had a design for a card in mind, and found a very small image of a card that they liked online. They asked me if I could make something like it and make it so that the printer could print a good quality card out of it. I based this design on the image they sent me, and sent them the .PSD, to forward to the printer, so they could edit the final text on the card (like name, weight, length and of course, date).

They were kind enough to send the finished card over the big pond to announce the birth of their second girl: Isis. Congratulations!

Here’s the result of my design.

I’m a music junkie, and I can’t design without music in my ears. If it’s from my MacBook speakers, my Logitech speaker set or my epic JVC headphones, I need them to play something. Here’s a little list of tracks I like to rock out to when designing, just so you can get a drift of my music taste. In random order:

Paramore – Misery business (Listen)
Green Day – Basket case (Listen)
Weezer – Dreamin’ (Listen)
Anouk – Good God (Listen)
Prodigy – Omen (Listen)
Daughtry – Every time you turn around (Listen)
David Guetta – Gettin’ over (Listen)
Tiesto – Elements of life (Listen)
La Roux – Bulletproof (Listen)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Suck my kiss (Listen)
Rage against the machine – Bombtrack (Listen)
Tenacious D – Master Exploder (Listen)
Skunk Anansie – Charlie Big Potato (Listen)
Muse – Uprising (Listen)
Arctic monkeys – Brianstorm (Listen)

A DJ on the radio asked the traffic-jam-reader-guy what his job was before he started working for the radio. He answered he used to be in IT, which is quite a career-move if you ask me..

I thought it would be interesting to know what you guys were doing before you turned to (web) design. Me? Oh, I used to be a salesman in an electronics store. I got to play with the new iPods, cell phones, digital camera’s, laptops etc. It was a fun job, but I didn’t see a real career in it for myself. So I decided to started freelancing my web design services.

What about you? Leave a comment with your previous job.