In the end of 2009, I joined Project52 — suggesting people to sign up on their website and for a personal blog challenge. The challenge is to write at least one article in your blog every week during the whole year.  

One month after I applied for a beta account on Cargo Collective and set it up with some of my favourite current work, I get an e-mail saying that they will go public and out of beta. This means that you still have to apply and some seriveces will cost money. Like custom CSS, custom URL and other customizations.

Current members will have 50% off on the prizes, which is really good. But, I don’t want to pay for my heartworker.com domain AND my portfolio space.

My ambition was to blog here and use my second domain joelhelin.com as a business portfolio when applying for internships and so on. But this made me look for other alternatives.

Conclusion

I want to use heartworker.com as both portfolio & blog and link joelhelin.com directly to the portfolio part. I don’t want to pay more to have them seperated, when it acutally doesn’t do me any good.

So, my question is: how did you build your portfolio? Are you using plugins for WordPress or did you build you own CMS?

Sometimes you have a few minutes left waiting for the subway and whatnot. And today, I felt inspired to to something really hands-on. Those of you following the adventures of Tim Van Damme knows to deal with inspiration when it hits us. (And those of us who stalk him knows this better than anyone.)

So, today I spiced up my desk at Hyper Island with some hand-crafted NES love. Sorry for the poor picture quality. Blame Apple.

1. Cut the edges and fold them.

2. Voila, a NES controller!

3. Repeat number 1.

4. All done!

5. Looking good with some NES figures.

Get the NES and many other figures at www.cubeecraft.com. Enjoy!

A couple of days ago Petter Warnsberg, explorer within the digital media had a lecture about the footprints we make online, and what they really mean.

I won’t give you the whole lecture here, but I will share some of my insights that I’ve come up with applying this to the blogo-sphere that most designers are a part of.