Finally I’ve redesigned my blog after spending 2 years stuck in a green bottle. I’m no graphic designer, but by surfing the very nice site ffffound.com* for inspiration, and mixing it with a sneaky shoot-from-the-hip photo session I had while slumbering in a park in Bologna last summer, I think I’ve managed to create something that I’ll be able to live with for a while. I’ll be tweaking it some more though.
*Does anyone have a ffffound invitation to spare?
The old Prisma book above gave me the color palette, and I got the style of the pictures from a quilting fabrics shop called Volksfaden. The Volksfaden picture is better viewed in its natural environment where you’ll also find a bunch of other beautiful pictures and fabrics. I have also been quite inspired by a design blog I just discovered by Scott Hansen, ISO50. Any Californian guy who likes The Whitest Boy Alive / Erlend Øye is a friend of mine.
When it comes to the photo I’ve used as an illustration, it’s a part of a series of photos from Bologna where I spied (sorry!) on some cute kids playing in a public park. The footer picture shows how one girl tries to distract the girl in the red (blue) dress, while another one drops an apple on her head. A classic! The original photo was this:
As some may have noticed, I’ve started writing in English now. Hard decision to make, and I actually don’t know if I want to quit writing in Norwegian all together. We’ll see how it goes. The framework for the blog will be in English no matter – I’ve already updated the About page with some delightful lines about myself. The CV page might need some extra work though. As I still will link to Norwegian sites and my own earlier posts, I’ll mark them with an [N] so you’ll now the language is changing. Not the perfect solution, but it’ll do for now.
I know I haven’t been the eager blogger I once was. Now that I’ve kicked that awful bottle out of the sidebar, at least you can follow my life through Twitter (microblogging) if nothing much has happened in the main column. And it won’t until next week, anyway. Tomorrow, I’ll be on my way to Copenhagen for the weekend, leaving my Mac behind, but including my camera and my HappyBook[N].