design – YUMMY WAKAME Blog https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog UX Designer + Full-Stack Dev Fri, 07 Oct 2016 09:36:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-square-icon-2-150x150.png design – YUMMY WAKAME Blog https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog 32 32 Make Good Art https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2014/11/14575/ https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2014/11/14575/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:29:10 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/?p=14575 Are you creative? A photographer? Painter? Musician? A model? Or a makeup artist? A writer? Director? Designer? These 19 minutes will give you 19 years of energy and inspiration.
Neil Gaiman tells you how to get work and how to keep getting work, discusses the problems of failure and the problems of success, and ends by offering “the most important piece of advice” he ever got.
If you can carve out the time right now, watch the video right away; if you can’t watch it now, bookmark it. Whatever you do, don’t skip it.

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Neil Gaiman – Inspirational Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012

]]> https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2014/11/14575/feed/ 0 Making It So https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2010/04/making-it-so/ https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2010/04/making-it-so/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:18:43 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/?p=10740

After over 5 years Yummy Wakame finally has a sleek new look! This has been a work-in-slow-progress for over a year now, as always with personal projects it’s been the last priority after paid work. At one point I thought it would never happen and didn’t touch it for about 4 months, figuring I’d work on it once work slowed down completely, but that never happened, and since October last year I suddenly found myself revelling in a whole lot more free time than I was used to. So YAY for Yummy Wakame! I guess now I’ll be passing around the business cards instead of cringingly giving out the URL to new clients. This design is a much better fit, inspired by something very meaningful to me. The portfolio isnt groaning under the weight of crusty 7 year old projects anymore. The new site and portfolio is so much easier to keep fresh thanks to WordPress, without needing to do a further stitch of code. I can make you a WordPress powered site too!

Oh and I’m working on the issue with the homepage taking a year to load. The hidden portfolio pieces are massive and unfortunately are loading before they are needed, so I still have to figure out how to load them on demand. Hopefully you all have broadband.

If anyone knows what that Kanji character is in the favicon you get +10hp!

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