The Future is Now

It’s a cliché for a web designer to say that they lose sight of their own personal website because they’re so busy with client work, but it always happens. I find myself constantly revisiting this site and updating about how much I’ve neglected my own little site, and here I am again. I put up a very, very lazy ‘re-design’ (if you could even call it that) a few months ago, out of necessity for college but now I am back in action with an actually designed theme, but as always, with umbrellas.

So! The last few months! The biggest thing, I graduated. For the first time I am not a student, and the very idea of that is really, really exciting. Being a student means not having the safety of your student loan arriving in your bank account and mostly, having an excuse for not being a grown up – but I’m already throwing myself into life headfirst. Working at hedgehog lab as a UI designer means I’m getting stuck into some exciting iOS and web design project, learning new stuff daily, and being able to hold some creative reigns amongst a crew of developers is helping me improve my confidence as a designer and I find myself getting better every project.

I’m moving out of my lovely little flat that has been my home for the past two years and moving a whole 15 minute walk down the road, learning how to drive, actually appreciating cooking and I’m stoked to be surrounded by some wonderful, talented people. Things are moving and changing at such a pace I feel like I can hardly keep up sometimes, but I love it this way.

On another exciting note, I’ve been nominated for Young Designer of the Year at the .NET Mag Awards 2011 – completely unexpected, but I feel really privileged to be up there amongst other super talented young designers. Me and some friends attended the Awards last year and it was a really fun night, would never imagine I’d be nominated for an award!