The new year started with quite a lot of excitement. I started to work in my own agency together with Harry and Lars and basically quit all freelance work or moved it over to our new venture. In the last few years when I worked at several agencies I always did freelance work at the same time. Not …
First of all, happy new year everyone. The first week of working in my own company has passed and I am happy and really proud of what we have achieved so far. January and February are filled with cool projects already and I can’t wait to share the first results. Being your own boss really is an …
What an exciting week this has been. I can now proudly and publicly announce that I am one of the founders of a fresh agency for digital bits and pieces, called diesdas.digital . We are officially starting in January 2016 and we can’t wait to start. The last months have been really hard because …
A massive read about “How Apple is giving design a bad name” was published on Fast Company last week. I admit I still had no time to read it, but I wanted to put it on the list anyway. Netlix is building a really nice Sketch plugin to fetch data like images and text from simple JSON files and place …
It was an exciting week. I got to learn once again how exciting it can be to change big clunky processes and introduce some common sense to your working procedures. Especially when you feel, that the client of a big company is on your side and welcomes the change. There is other exciting stuff that …
This week was filled with quite a lot. Without being too specific I just say that sometimes it is quite hard to make a difference. But, just keep trying. I stumbled upon this great Swedish campaign site , that definitely leaves an impression. How do you want the world to be when you retire? Every …
1st edition Every week I stumble upon interesting links, pure Internet gold in form of YouTube videos and handy long-reads about the web and other stuff. Also, every week I learn something new in my work life. Maybe also someone else finds these bookmarks, recordings and such useful or entertaining …
For the last two years I worked in agile processes, better known as “Scrum”. While the projects I was working on definitely profited from a more or less agile workflow, it sometimes just felt like a dogmatic approach that forces you to do things in a predetermined manner. I want to break free To …
I have had the pleasure of working at Edenspiekermann for two years. Although I decided a few weeks ago that it is time for a new challenge and to move on, I wanted to take some time to look back at what I have learned. Front End Development I learned a ton about Ruby Frameworks, I learned how to …
… I know how you feel. Times are hard for you and job opportunities are rare. Gone are the days when you were left in endless design explorations. You touched things with your hand. You shaped them late at night, when the others were already sleeping. Illustrations, posters and collages were part …