It’s been over a month since I’ve published my last blog post. I was starting to feel a bit uncomfortable about that, so I’ve decided to scratch some things at 01.00am before I sleep.

I had to reject a couple of clients in the last month. I really hate to do that, but there’s so much happening in my life and I don’t like to work on design projects while my mind is busy with something else. My school started, and even I don’t really care about it, it wastes a lot of time of mine. I also go to somewhere like a secondary school, which is like a course and kills my weekends. However, in all these rush, I still can find time to do the things I like. Music is the most important thing in my life right now and I’ve already arranged a couple of gigs for my new band. I keep going to rock climbing in the meantime. I try really hard to spend the time that’s left from all those things at home, relaxing, making music, sleeping, reading some books and sleeping again. For designing; I can’t be as productive as I was in the summer, so I think the best thing to do is to stay away from new projects for a while.

I’ve sold my Portrait Photos design to a Russian photographer, I’ve designed a logo for a photography studio called Crash Photography (which I’ll be posting here as soon as I get on my desktop PC), and that’s all I’ve done in a month.

Today I’ve ran into a very interesting website titled “Clients From Hell”. I don’t know if it’s so famous that I should be ashamed of not hearing about it before, but I thought I should share it. It’s “A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers”. I’m sure every designer (or developer) that contact with clients had moments like those before.

Clients from Hell & 20 Epic Clients From Hell Moments

I haven’t been designing much lately, but I try to spend some time on thinking about new logo concepts. Not to make money, but I really love creating and sketching new ideas. Today I’ve designed two logo concepts, Pencastle and Loveballoon. I thought it would be a good idea to share it on my blog. They are approved for sale on Brandstack.com.

Pencastle

Loveballoon

Also it would be great to hear your comments! Thanks.

We’ve finished working on a new script as Creavita Studios, and it has just been approved for sale on CodeCanyon. It’s a simple PHP script that allows you to showcase your work online. I’ve done the design part, and Ekrem did a great job coding the script (as always). Here it is: Continue reading →

I’ve been designing business cards and company identity packages for my clients for a long time, and I thought that it is the right time to design some business cards for myself. After having some time thinking about it, I thought what I need is a simple business card printed on a good quality paper. I’ve visited Istanbul Basim a couple days ago and chose between many kinds of papers. The one I chose has a very good feel and it’s thick (320gr), which I think is great.

I requested to watch the printing process, so that I could learn more about printing and they didn’t reject me. We’ve finished printing today and I’m really satisfied with my new business cards! I hope you like them.

We’ve been working on a new twitter widget with my friend Ekrem. The script is accepted by CodeCanyon and is on sale. It has two versions, one as a Javascript plugin and one as a WordPress plugin. Check them out!

Twitter Updates Widget

Twitter Updates Widget for WordPress Continue reading →

I’ve re-decorated my room this weekend, and I’ve bought new furniture from IKEA. I love their designs, especially the office furnitures. I hope it redounds my creativity!

I’m proud to declare that me and my good friend (who is also a very talented programmer) Ekrem Büyükkaya have founded a new design&development agency called Creavita Studios. We will be creating new scripts, plugins and templates to sell on Envato Marketplace and we’re also open for freelancing.

We’ve been working on new ideas for the last few days, and it’s working great so far. We will be launching our website soon, follow us!

I want to introduce an amazing tool that I’ve just found out today. It’s called screenr. It’s a great way for capturing videos online. The best thing about screenr is that the recorder is web-based, so you don’t need to download anything. Also, you can login with your twitter account, and tweet your videos instantly. The recorder can record your microphone input, and this makes screenr a great place for recording tutorials. After recording, you can download an MP4 version of your video or you can directly publish it on YouTube.

www.screenr.com

Yesterday I bought a new graphic tablet, Wacom Bamboo Pen. Actually, this is my first real graphic tablet if we don’t count the one that I bought from Dealextreme a long time ago. It was like a toy, so I threw it away immediately. Continue reading →