Chris Flores

This week in design 🧵:

Aldi’s tattoo promo, OFFF Montréal debut, Pentagram x Royal Drawing School, Bindu cork-clay tools, Unopiù Miami showroom, Zellerfeld x Havaianas 3D flip-flops, Chaude Couture straw raincoat, Woodson Museum praise, Houzz: AI use surges.

I gotta give this a shot. Looks like a lot of fun!

The studio website is the biggest chokepoint with momentum right now. I can't wait to complete this behemoth of a task.

Then onto finalizing client contracts, onboarding systems, localized guerrilla marketing, content creation.

Lastly, presenting some really useful browser extensions I built.

And here’s one with animated text.

#graphicdesigner #ai #promptengineering

This one is to represent “penciling in” a date to book for consultation.

#freelance #graphicdesign

I was bored and wanted to give my website some simple dynamic animated buttons. So I told Gemini to whip some up for me.

#webdesign #ux #ui #design

Coming across and learning about the term "singularity sprint" was like downing 12 shots of espresso alongside it eradicating my ADHD, perfectionism, and complaints about trivial matters.

I needed that.

Forward and onward. Immediately.

If you're not self-employed and are quick to appease the needs of your boss with more urgency than your own personal well-being — you are, in fact, broken.

You owe it to YOU to provide yourself the same amount, if not more, attention through INTENTION to live as harmonious a life as possible.

I’ve spread myself a little too thin these past few months.

Time to gift myself the status of “Completed”.

Google Sites is perfect for bootstrapping the launch of my upcoming brand identity design studio.

Switched from Squarespace & got rid of monthly website costs to put that cash into other business tools.

Core messaging is more important than dynamic design.

Follow along as I document the build.

Nostalgia fused with the ingredient of humanity simply sells… and always will.

Those that are anti-generative AI don’t realize that the innovation itself is FUELING nostalgia in the longrun.

Organic mediums (paintings, illustrations, sculptures, analog art, etc.) will appreciate in perceived value.

Nostalgia is a powerful concept, mindset, and dare I say, marketing tool.

Rumination hinders illumination.
Hesitation hinders destination.
Complaining hinders reigning.

Getting McDonald’s delivered for the price of a steak dinner will always be jarring.

Such a profound way to put it; I love it.

Coming from a purely graphic design discipline, I was able to build 2 websites, 4 web apps, and 3 extensions in bafflingly short time.

But to meet accountability and curiosity in the middle, I've actually been LEARNING how to code in tandem with #vibecoding.

I want to go from no-code to co-code.

That digital detox was insane.

"Hello, World!"

Graphic designers

What tool do/would you use for beverage can mockups?

Adobe Dimension?
Blender?
Photoshop?
A specific web app?

Been using Dimension for years but I want to try something different.

#GraphicDesign

Doing another playthrough, as well, and not looking forward to that either!

The value of analog arts and #design will inherently increase when the dust settles and people become complacent to the saturation of “synthetic” content.

Current Escapism:

Game:: #Witcher (Enhanced Edition)
Audiobook: The Sun Also Rises

#Gaming #Books

My studio website’s “portfolio” section will only consist of conceptual passion projects — no client projects at all.

I’m documenting the process to show that client acquisition is possible showcasing a well-developed #BrandIdentity that you have full-control over.

#GraphicDesign

Projects was the missing link for effective project management in #ChatGPT.

Learned so much this year.

However, the rate of innovation is face melting.

The goal of my current brand identity project is to use mundane everyday office objects as the visual language of the brand.

The challenge has been a gratifying experience so far.

#GraphicDesign #Branding

Gamers.

Do yourselves a favor and play Drova: Forsaken Kin.

It’s my personal Game of the Year.

#Gaming #Drova #RPG

This year really made me feel the existential paradigm shift.

It’s overwhelming but further makes me a believer that you can pivot through the chaos.

You are what you think.

Instead of adding good habits as New Year’s resolutions, I’ll remove the bad ones instead.

Less is more.

Tis the season to start Ebay-ing my unused wardrobe.

I loathe hoarding stuff I no longer use.

Respectfully, does it have to be so convoluted just to be convoluted? I feel this is just semantics at play.

Same core meaning; just different terminology.