My adventures into WordPress and CSS are finally coming to fuition as my refreshed new portfolio is “almost,” complete. I only say “almost,” because this is one of those things that’ll never actually be finished. I’m at a stage where I’m simply inputting content; which for me, is really the home stretch. I’ve gone through multiple revisions and come up with something that I can live with. When working on personal projects such as this, you really do have to bite it and say, “screw it, it works.” Usually I’m an extreme perfectionist, but this is more of a situation where I’d rather just get something done and worry about being proud of it later on.

Here’s a preview of the logo Woojin Cho made for me.

As I said last week, I’m finally giving my portfolio a bit of a refresh. After looking through some of the stuff that’s out there and figuring out how I want to position myself as a brand, I’ve decided to take the entire thing in a whole new direction. The first thing I did was decide that I was going to build the whole thing in WordPress. I blog a lot for a lot of different clients, so the interface is as easy as pecan pie. The problem was finding an appropriate template to frack with. Good thing I had the help of One Night Site who found me a layout that I really like. It’s simple, it’s kind of funky, and it allows me to really screw with the original without breaking the backend (too much).

So once I decided on all of that I went to work on trying to figure out my own visual style – or at the very least something a little bit more tantalizing than my name and title in bold courier text. After a few long nights of struggling through photoshop I landed upon a conclusion that I’ve known for… ever. I suck at design. I hate whatever I make , I can never fully decide what I’m looking for and I like to sit there and think about things for way too long. In terms a lot of you can relate to, I’m the worst client in the world. But once I discovered this I was able to let go and I think I made a good decision in doing so. I asked for the help of a real designer, someone who understands the artistic world a lot better than I do and enlisted the aid of one Woojin Cho. Interestingly enough, Woojin is building his portfolio at the same time.

Woojin sent me a few samples of what he was planning for his own logo but wasn’t pleased with his outcome thus far. As for why he sent them to me for review is beyond me as he knows I have about the equivalent design knowledge of pineapple. Anyways, the good that came out of all that was that he asked if I wanted any of the samples for myself. Heck Yes Please! Logo problem solved and Woojin sent over what he made. I’m pretty happy with it considering I can’t do this myself and it actually fits with my personality a bit.

Onward and upwards now – back to the grind.

Oh yeah, here’s the logo.