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Gif websites and Gif awards…

NOTE: This post is not a personal problem with anyone.
Personal I know Mihai Vladan and he is one of my good friends (btw mate you own me some money - kidding let’s go out tomorrow). He is a freelancer, a designer, a nice guy with crazy ideas, I don’t want to comment his skills or anything like this…. he launch his second version of his website like 2 months or 3 ago. He is really pleased with the result and in order to promote himself he submit his website to different flash portals and so on. Of course some portals featured him and that’s good, but let me get to the point. I don’t think he need to mention this anywhere maybe just to his personal blog if he really want. He ruin his website with those gifs and from some us that know what those links means means nothing, probably we all got in there.
New web pick, Xhilarate, Pagecrush, Pixel Makers, Pixel Gangsterand and all the “pixel” websites all the css galleries or any other website that featured your website or your work in my opinion are “GIF WEBSITE”; now why did I call them “GIF WEBSITES” because they push you to take their logos and put them to your portfolio as recognition or award or featured…whatever…and you do this in order to be “awarded” and the people that stops to your portfolio to have this reaction “Ok. now this guy is super awarded and look he is good if all these websites featured him or whatever…” …. “Need to work with him…” or whatever….Is like the Heineken commercial which says that “Heineken is probably the best bear in the world” before you even tried or see it.
I admit that is probably a good plan and is working for a freelancer or a unknown designer….Why? because he had small clients that don’t know about these “GIF WEBSITES” and they roll their eyes every time they see another gif on your websites and they think they made a good choice and probably they will ask you a 50$ logo… Enough with Mihai…

Now let’s try with an agency…recently X3Studios ( btw happy B-day)release a huge list of their “awards and mentions” as they call it, since 2004. Now let me clarified with you, that I don’t know them personal and don’t have anything against them or with a specific employer of them. My question is did they really need to put all the Css galleries websites or such a thing like this? I mean, I realize they are an agency…with 7 years of experience, professionals, still awarded and featured in some well known books or competitions… I know that a big list is better than a small one at the first look, but a huge list full of “GIF WEBSITES” is not the same with a small list with really well known and quality books and articles…etc. In this case they have some big clients that maybe surf a lot on the internet and understand what a CSS gallery is or what means and award and a poor feature.

Out there are lot’s of well known portals like Cpluv, QBN, Behance and so on where the editors select the articles after they verify the quality of the works, website, text whatever. Make the list shorter and keep the quality on first place VS quantity.
But who I am to judge?? No one…that’s why I am just asking…What’s the difference between Mihai Vladan and X3 Studios?
I will let you answer this questions and decide what need to appear or not.

November 28, 2008 in , , , , , | Comments (2)

2~Things I like / love so far.

Need to continue what I’ve start.

  1. I love the new release from Behance team -  Action Method, and we at my studio use it already, is really useful.
  2. Gmail and Google reader and probably all Google web applications.
  3. Twitter seems to turn me on. sweet application.
  4. Iphone. I have on for a year and I can tell you it s a really useful gaget and it works really well. Actually my first model suddenly doesn’t want to connect with  my laptop or any other connection so 2 months ago I need to get a new one, this time from Orange - they call it “official”.
  5. Cpluv because of his history and his huge daily updates.
  6. Typeneu & Reform&Revolution because of the high quality content and because it belongs to my friends.
  7. I need to admit that I love Indexhibit for his simplicity and for his easy way to custom it.

That’s it for the moment. Enjoy or tell me that you don’t love these stuff.

October 26, 2008 in , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

~Things I like / love so far.

I decided to share with you some of my favorite things, including all kind of things, like music, cars artist etc. So I started a new category and I would love to see your comments about these stuff.

So here I start:

  1. I love Behance, this is a certain thing because I was there from the beginning and I have a lot of friends up there. Also Behance becomes one of my first source of clients and all of them are some bad ass projects.
  2. Then you got to love FFFFOUND; the huge amount of high quality stuff in there is crazy. You can actually lose a whole week just browse threw FFFFOUND. Lovely job guys.
  3. I like Flickr because is so easy to use. Yu can upload like 1000 photos in 5 minutes, all with their own tags and description. Really sweet and useful site.
  4. I love Vimeo and Youtube. Vimeo for the sweet motion you can find there and Youtube because you can find any video and any crap thing in there.
  5. Facebook because is not full of porn and you can keep you up to date with your friends activity.

Enough for the moment. These are some of my favorite networking websites and you can add me there as a friend or write me a note. I’ll be back with some more website and other stuff.

October 12, 2008 in , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)