Marlow Designs

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  • Unemployment so far…

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    Decisions, decisions.  In the last major downturn (2008/2009) I was struggling. HARD. I had a few saving sources in my professional life that kept me afloat, working on projects here and there – living hand-to-mouth and losing my savings quickly.  The position that I was in was not good. Unemployment was gone, most of my… Read more

  • GAME. ON.

    GAME. ON.
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    The Build. Started as a ‘what if’ and became a reality out of pure necessity and reduced access to components… PC component prices are getting dicey as supply diminishes and demand increases for the WFH / unplanned unemployed crowd. So I was forced into pulling the trigger on infrastructure investment. The initial plan was to… Read more

  • R&R (Reading & Research) Downtime & Tech Difficulties

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    If there’s one upside to come from a string of tech problems and being distanced from society as a whole – it definitely frees up some time to read.  While installing software on a new PC build (more an immediate need, than the luxury dream project it was supposed to be) and trying to run… Read more

  • Ahh, the memory …

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    The first step that I was going to undertake in my newly forced liberation from the firm – was to FINALLY reorganize terabytes of data from my 25 years in this profession… Until recently – this treasure trove of historical data had been spread across multiple drives. Most of these drives either became too small,… Read more

  • Things kinda fell flat – huh?

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    I can explain… sort of. The first hurdle that I ran into was issues of sales add-ins, extra packages and things that other people were more than happy to sell a subscription to their service for my little venture – to the tune of thousands of dollars a year. I don’t know about you –… Read more

  • Practice, Practice, Practice – Part II

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    Continued… basically, I shared that – so that I could share this. I hope you can forgive the long-winded narrative explanation of the ideas. Production Crunch I think (and I might be wrong) but the elegantly rendered pretty pictures, may have gotten us into trouble as designers. Yes, I know what I said, and I’m… Read more

  • Practice, Practice, Practice

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    Digital Practice Whether accidentally or by design,  I’ve managed to tumble into a paradigm of practice, based on mobility… That is to say that I survived the ‘dark years’ by going lean and acting as a consultant for several firms – sometimes as many as 3 at once. I discovered a LOT about myself, as… Read more

  • Why Am I Here?

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    Starting with Why Stepping back from the philosophical and ponderous nature of that question to explore the pragmatic, I suppose I owe you all an explanation… Why is it that I’m here? What’s the point of the musings?  Well, the overall intent of putting this out into the world is to engage anyone who’s game,… Read more

  • What’s in a Name?

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    Yes folks – a Shakespearian reference right out of the gate. As with many other things in this life, the first question tends to be “What the hell do we call it?” I mean just look at the guys that named all the birds… I can’t imagine what that was like. I’ve agonized for years in… Read more

  • Press Play

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    Well, we begin… After wrestling with the common questions in the common themes: Shakespearian: What’s in  a name? Etherial: Why am I here? Introverted: What is it that I have to offer the outside world that no one else does? Extroverted: Given the propensity for the aforementioned introversion, and previous sporadic starts/stops in the realm… Read more