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Why a new website

david-shadow

Hi, thanks for coming.

So here we are… my new website is online! And it’s more than just a visual design update. The previous site was built in the scope of showing my work to design agencies, in order to find a job – in order to have money – in order to survive and pay me some more trivial extras like having 8€ beers in some pleasant places. Well, to cut a long story short, it was an online portfolio mainly intended to seduce professional design-related people, such as creative directors. And it worked out. Indeed, as you may already know I started at frog design 7 monthes ago, and I find myself very happy here.

Consequently, this new website was designed as an active link with all the people I care for – and whoever feels interested in that – rather than a portfolio. My job at frog is really moving me forward, I’m traveling a lot, seeing, experiencing and learning so many things. I found myself too many times thinking I would like to share something with you or someone that could be interested in. Well, this new website is not my first attempt to do that – I’ve tried Facebook, Linkedin, Dopplr, Tumblr and many others… I ended up closing everything. I felt overwhelmed I guess. I don’t like the idea of spending my time spread all over these social networking websites. So I decided to have everything in one place, far from advertisement, obliged registration forms, last trendy web 2.0 sites, etc.

This is literally my ‘home’ on the web, oh yes this is archaic.

Basically if someone asks himself something like “what is David doing” this new website should be the first place to look at. And it’s built in a hierarchical way. The homepage displays a Twitter feed which is the more recent piece of info, a short line I decided to share, this could be very casual, moody or whatever. I used Twitter just for the fact that it’s a quick and easy way for me to update my homepage — I can do it in many different ways, including from my mobile phone. If you’re a Twitter user, you can suscribe to my Twitter feeds even though there’s probably no really point doing that. Then a second level of information, I hope a more structured and deep one, will be this blog. You can suscribe to my rss feeds, via feedburner. Last thing, my portfolio is still online and I even added some new material here and there, some projects have been lightly updated also. I’ll add more recent work as soon as uncomprimising professional Non-Disclosure Agreements will let me.

Enjoy.