Dublingame

Some new logos, graphics and artworks on Dublingame Thursday’s tumble

Victor Terent — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:35:47 +0000

Graphics for ACT Control Systems – their new products; Independent theatre production poster/flyer “Morning and Afternoon” in the Project Theatre Dublin; Some competitions’ logos: Green Fox, Athyrium, Running Social for stocklogos; Poster and flyer, 2013 Calendar for the Rose Lawless Christmas Cabaret show in the New Theatre, Dublin; Irish lucky punch T-Shirt design promoting boxing in Ireland after Katie Taylor’s gold at Olympics

Some day in Bray – the beach, harbor, swans, flotsam and cobblestones

Victor Terent — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:50:14 +0000

One day in Bray, photos from my flickr

New Words’ Creation – Genness

Victor Terent — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:15:43 +0000

I had an idea to find some word randomizer or creator and almighty google gave me this brilliant tool - Random Word Generator that you can find at http://www.nexi.com/fun/rw/index.html

So you need to input a few words into this simple form and hit the button and check out the result. On the first go it asked me to enter at least 10 words or more and there is a simple instruction on how to choose the theme. As I got stuck on the first try with only 6 words I decided to ask my girlfriend to give me some and she went: “Affirmation, Security, Reassurance…”

Hold on – I thought, I can’t use her particular stream of consciousness and apply it to my very random list, so I tricked her into giving me 10+ words I needed for my little experiment.

Here is her list: Affirmation, security, reassurance, faith, trust, gentleness, peace, harmony, certitude, love, presence, silence, child.

What else one would expect from a female holding the latest Julia Cameron book in one hand and a fountain pen filled with turquoise ink in another? So, I was full of good expectations and here is the result:

SECURITH           PRESS              AFFIRMONY          PEASSURITY         
SECURANCE          GENCE              REACE              REASSURITY         
FAITY              CERTITH            GENTLENCE          CERTION            
FAITUDE            SILD               CHILENTLENTLENESS  GENESS             
SILENTLENCE        CERTITY            SILENESS           GENESENCE          
CHILENCE           CHILENESS          AFFIRMATITH        AFFIRMATITY        
REASSURITH         PEASSURITH         CHILENTLENTLENTLENESSGENTLENTLENCE      
HARMATITY          HARMATION          PRESENESS          SILENTLENESS       
CHILENTLENCE       HARMATITH          SILENTLENTLENCE    CHILENTLENESS      
PRESENTLENESS      PRESENTLENTLENESS  PEASSURANCE        SILENTLENTLENTLENCE
CHILENTLENTLENCE   GENESENESS         GENTLENTLENTLENTLENCEPRESENTLENCE       
SILENTLENTLENTLENTLENCE

You would have expected some gibberish in it but there are so many shiny pearls too!

My favorites are: Silentlence, Certity, Affirmony, Reace, Gentlence, Certion, Geness – wow, it’s a real find for such a quick whimsy! And It’s great to see them underlined by red dots of auto spell checker. Bang – originality proved! Surely, some might have been already invented or be normal in other languages but not in English, and they read naturally as if they could be real words.

My initial idea was to create some random logo as an exercise and now I have enough material for a week – thanks to my “sild” girlfriend full of “preseness” and Sean Puckett for creating such a tool. Come on, dude, this is a great idea for an App!

… and 20 minutes later comes this Genness logo. I added an extra “N” just for pure design aesthetics and for some creative input on my behalf.

What do I need to learn to design eZines?

Victor Terent — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:49:48 +0000

Here is the log from a Skype chat with one of my clients… hope somebody find it usefull, I even might re-write it in a proper way. Let me know if it would be of any interest.

Q: What do I need to learn to design eZines? HTML? I have never done one and I would have to learn from 0 what would take much time, but I want to learn in my spare time

A: the Best place to start from is MailChimp – login and read about it. They provide a lot of ready to use templates that you can adopt to your needs. So you don’t need to learn html but it would be an advantage. Also I didn’t know much in the beginning but I learn a lot from reading blogs about email campaigns – you can try to google it.

I’m using another email website called CampaignMonitor.com – but you have to pay 1 cent per email sent. But they provide with very comprehensive analytical tools and you can create Mailing lists as you fly and also generate subscription forms for your website.

About html – you need to know what means what – all together its like text formatting instructions – just in case you need to change something there in the code, its not that difficult but will take some time to learn – you can try Dreamweaver (can download 1 month trial from Adobe.com) – where you can design your webpages visually in WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) editor and check corresponding code also. There are other and probably free editors alike but I’m using Adobe products.

A: I know a little bit of HTML, but just very basic stuff
Q: You need only basic stuff for emails. Normally you can not use any scripts and fancy mark-up in emails, you use tables and CSS styles within on html document.

Dublin Buildings, April

Victor Terent — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:30:40 +0000

I love this picture because of its brightness, its lovely announcement of itself as entrance to receiving old slow ways of communication, its rusty ridges contrasting with its sunshine turquoise colours… It’s a statement of its function and it’s a greeting to new enveloped visitors.. it’s clear and it’s mysterious. It’s Dublin but also that rare captured happiness – Dublin in the sun. It is a small monument to history and its a quaint loveliness for Dubliners of today who treasure their past cultures. It’s a simple picture but it’s also an invitation to the curious to ponder what intimacies passed through the cave of its mouth. (This text written by Rose Lawless about Green Post Box image)

Little Bunny Rabbit

Victor Terent — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:43:26 +0000

One Little bunny rabbit went for a walk

skip-skip, jump-jump, plock-plock

Big curvy carrot got stuck in his teeth

But he can not afford a dentist…

And he’s ugly too

to tell you the truth

Graphics – Thursday’s tumble

Victor Terent — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:37:07 +0000

Thursday is normally the last day of work in the office for me. So I desided to post galleries of all assorted projects previews, logos, illustrations and other graphics. It will serve more like portfolio but with actual feel of the sketch book or diary of the visual graphics professional. I’m sorry if all these blurbs are not very well written – they are on the go and not intended to be any sort of creative writing.
Just blogging
Please tell me any thoughts, ideas, or you can simply bring about your most vicious inner critic and give it opportunity for a flaming review!

Links to the websites or some parts of them that I designed

Victor Terent — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:30:49 +0000

In this post I will be placing links to all of my web-projects. For some of them I created only graphics such as web-banners, buttons and collages. Some use flash, video features and interactive design elements also. Nowadays, I’m trying to teach people how to use all exciting new, mostly free features of web 2.0 and Social Networks for their on-line presence. My favorite platform is WordPress. It’s a “human” tool and even folks with fear of technology can use it successfully. Contemporary Web designer becomes more of a consultant, a trainer, a friend. We need to learn how to collaborate, where to find resources and constantly learn new ways of integration.

Also I’ve attached PDF with some of designs. Please have a look

Please drop me an email on victor @ dublingame.com if you have any thoughts or ideas I can assist you with or simply comment on this post.

Shahid Woman and a Dog in a Tree

Victor Terent — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:42:45 +0000

Picture I’ve taken on Christmas Day in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Shahid woman on the disk parking machine, dog in the tree, way out up from the box and 7Up – pretty good combination don’t you think? It reminded me about the change in Moscow underground. They wanted to replace all signs “No way out” for something less depressing. I want to see a pokemon instead of a man pictogram on the road-crossing signs.

Also you can see some other pictures on flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/dublingame/361031164/

Connector.ie Xmas Party

Victor Terent — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:02:42 +0000

We are going to Connector.ie Xmas party in a new club over Purty Kitchen. Read more on connector.ie There will be plenty of people from web/digital and paper media.
Looking forward to some new contacts/inspirations