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Entries from August 2008

Spark Awards – for Green Design

August 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

Well, this is a great initiative! A Design competition that awards not only for beauty ad concept, but also for functionality and sustainability.
From their website:
Spark is a fresh, modern qualification system that recognizes new processes and technology and seeks to involve people and ideas from untapped sources. Designers from all levels and skill-sets are welcome, be they [...]

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Tags: Graphic Design · Green Design

The way to work

August 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

There are quite a few good things about my current work: the people, the atmosphere, the location close to home, the cheap food available for lunch, the little lessons of the daily routine… but the very best thing is the actual way to work.
Every morning at 8:30 I leave the house on my bike and [...]

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Tags: Green Life · My life

Home Sick

August 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sim, sim, sim, eu estou completamente Home Sick. Saudades de Casa.
Mas uma saudade tão profunda, tão arraigada, sedenta, impaciente, intolerante e persistente que me tira do meu meio, me desbalanceia e chacoalha e faz com que palavras se tornem portais pra memórias distantes – lapsos de tempo que acontecem com mais freqüência que o desejado.
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Tags: My life

New job new life

August 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Alright!
And yet another change in life. After almost 3 years working on my own I have decided that “enough is enough” and it was time to get back working like the average person – 9 to 5 monday to friday (although here is sunday to thursday) global salary in the end of the month.
I was [...]

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