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I’m back!

2011-11-06T20:18:00Z

First off, I confess that it’s been so long since my last post here, that I had difficulties remembering my login/password. :) Anyway, I’m back, after a long period of full-time handling of my newborn baby. I hope I’ll soon find a functioning way to make this self-employed/mother combination work smoothly (still kind of searching for the right balance), because I’ve got a serious creative itch going on lately. There are plans for a total makeover of this site, as well as many other exciting projects. Expect some new stuff in the portfolio section soon…

Why am I the last to blog?

2009-01-17T18:20:00Z

For those of you that understand Croatian, you may want to take a look at my new blog. Now that no one really cares about blogs anymore, I decided to start my own. I seem to be terribly lame or maybe even old-fashioned, I don’t know. :) The truth is I did start a couple of blogs few years ago, but none of them lasted longer than a couple of posts. I have a feeling that this attempt might actually last longer. We’ll see. :)

Christmas presents

2008-12-19T18:11:00Z

I went to the iParty organized by Kreativni odjel, had a great time and somehow even won a prize in one of the competitions: Corel Painter X! The competition was fun and not too serious: we had to draw anything we wanted, but we only had 10 minutes and had to use MS Paint (yuck!). The good vibes were real good this Christmas, so the Supravision web site I designed for Euroart93 appeared among the 10 best corporate sites of the Croatian Vidi awards. And by the way - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! :)

Free(tula) at last

2008-11-04T22:19:00Z

I finally did it. After thinking about it for a long time, this summer I quit my job and since October I am fully self-employed in my own design company called Fritula. Now I can focus entirely on my freelance projects and that is something I always dreamed about. The downside is that somehow I managed to make myself even more busy and overbooked, but that’s normal I guess. What’s with the name, you might ask? It’s pronounced free-too-lah, and it’s the name of a simple yet cute and delicious traditional local sweet (this blog post will tell you more). If you’ve been here before, you will now notice that the domain name has changed, so now you can update your bookmarks. :)

A small gift from outer space

2008-07-23T22:39:00Z

I made a small web icon set for Smashing Magazine called Smashy the Alien and I am happy to inform that it’s now featured and available for download! The icon set consists of 8 trendy and cute icons inspired with cartoons and picture books. The icons are completely free of charge for both commercial and personal use and I hope you will find a way for using them in your designs.

Overproductive or just overworked?

2008-07-12T17:18:00Z

Being very busy last couple of months, many new projects are done. For now, you can check out the design for the Serb National Council website, while more other new designs are on the way. Also now there’s a new category in my portfolio called backlog. This category is featuring some designs that never made it past the review process, were never actually used, or just got stuck as a permanent work in progress - but I still find them interesting on some level. Expect more of those to be posted soon.

Check the hotness of your site

2007-12-25T19:01:00Z

Abeja.org is competing in the hot-or-not for websites called commandshift3.com and managed to enter the top 2% sites (of 4600+ sites). Check the people’s voice on your own/favorite site or just try out this hypnotic time-waster: commandshift3.com.

Abeja v3 has launched!

2007-11-25T16:00:00Z

The new and improved, more functional and cute than ever, Abeja version 3 is online! I hope you like it… The old version of the site is still available here. My previous portfolio web site StyleFor.Bees will remain online for the time being, but I won’t update it anymore.

Abeja got dugg! (well… almost)

2007-05-21T15:40:00Z

My design Skalinada.org was featured on the “60 Elegant and Visually Appealling Designs” list, which eventually appeared on the Digg frontpage!

StyleFor.Bees featured in Web Design Index 7

2007-04-25T15:50:00Z

Just like the previous version of Abeja.org, which was featured in the book “Web Design Index by Content”, my previous portfolio web site StyleFor.Bees appeared in this book series as well. You can find it in “Web Design Index 7”.