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CSS showcases of my new blog design

A few weeks ago I finally completed the web design of my personal blog, Bloody Marie – now you know where I used a purple Spongebob ! (even though you still don’t know why I used one… I guess I’ll reveal the so called mystery one day ! ^^)

The feedback has been great so far ! The new design has been eventually featured in many CSS showcases :

CSS Bahçesi

CSS Bake

CSS Impress

CSS Loggia

Sharebrain

Design Fridge

We6design

Webdesign is art

Moreover, the article « design portfolios that introduce web designers » also features Bloody Marie.

I am extremely thankful for these selections ! Since the previous design had received so much great feedback, too, I wasn’t sure if the new design, being way more personal and crafty, would get as much exposure. I’m proud it did :)

For those of you who can read French, I wrote an extensive making-of of this new blog design, whose first and second parts can be read directly on Bloody Marie.

Obviously web design has progressively taken a big place in my life and heart. I simply love it, and each opportunity to put the limit further, to learn new CSS and PHP tricks, as well as being lucky to see the final work selected in CSS directories or web design trend articles is fantastic.

This said, I will try to focus more on digital art in 2010, I miss it a lot. The opportunity of working on new commissions would be a plus, too. I’m seriously thinking about getting a real freelance entrepreneur status, in order to get back to business ! I’m sure it will be exciting.

Thanks for reading this, and for keeping up with Aenemya ! \m/

Preview of my next web design

Mystery Project

The last few weeks I’ve been secretly working on a “mysterious project” aside from my daily dose of lalunemauving However there are a few pieces of evidence for you to guess which of my websites is going to come back to life this time !

By the way, Aenemya.com has been featured (in first position ^^) among 55 Beautiful Green Layouts in Web Design. Thanks a lot to Gisele Muller for picking my portfolio out. The site has been showcased on CSS Deluxe, too!

Off for now, have a good week ! ;-)

Montmartre, the Moon and some news, at last !

Sorry for the lack of updates – I realized I haven’t updated this so-called “blog” for three months… >_< Time goes by so quickly when you have a daily job and only a few hours at night to work on your personal and creative projects !

That's why today I decided to wake my Nikon D200 up and take some photographs at Montmartre, a famous place that I, however, only visited once in my lifetime. Here are a few shots from my walk, you can see more on FlickR :

Comme tout le monde...

Vintage posters

Silhouettes

Ex-votos

Sainte-Gertrude

I’ve also made a lot of improvements to La Lune Mauve, the cultural webzine I’ve put back online last January. Remember its steampunk interface ? Well, I’ve lightened it in order to allow the site to load much faster. I redesigned the categories, too (though I still have to work on the community category – Planète), and I truly hope the site’s navigation will be easier from now on.

I also wrote a few reviews, in French, though – unfortunately, I don’t write as much as I used to. And I do miss it a lot, like I miss taking care of my “real” blog. There’s no chance I will update it again, but something’s been on my mind for a few months : I’d like to redesign it, too, and make it become a kind of personal Netvibes page. The blog would agregate most of my personal feeds (Tumblr, FlickR, Twitter, my La Lune Mauve reviews, etc.), and would allow anyone to know what I’ve been up to. What do you think ?

Otherwise, I must admit I miss creating digital artwork A LOT. I haven’t created a single illustration for months – it seems my work and my nocturnal activities as obsessional geek have completely prevent me from starting something new. I feel sad about it, I wish I had, like, three or four parallel lives – one life for each field of my current life. I guess when I’m done ripening my websites, I’ll switch to another form of creation. In the meanwhile, I’m focusing on web design, learning a lot day after day (and even more since I’m a fulltime web designer/front-end developer at Pixmania).

Oh, I almost forgot : Aenemya.com has been featured on CSS Dsgn, DesignShack, Use jQuery and on Kevin Craft’s blog. I also wrote an article about my work on Le Fantastique au Féminin (in French).

That’s all for today! :-)
Remember : you can follow my Twitter updates anytime (in English, or in French – sorry, I’m so talkative there! T_T), feel free to get in touch anytime !

Creative workplaces

I’ve been cultivating a kind of fascination for others’ creative workplaces for the last few years. First, because I’m a fervent decoration lover, but also because I believe your environment does influence you a lot when you’re a creative person. I’ve always loved making-of’s, step-by-steps, behind-the-scenes and other footages, tutorials or photoshoots allowing you to see how a particular work was created ; thus I never get bored of discovering new pictures of those places where you can create at ease.

Today I stumbled upon two awesome Japanese books (there was even a third one, but I couldn’t afford it >_< ), edited by the Editions de Paris, which focus on… Paris interiors, usages and people. Isn’t it ironic to buy such books about Paris, edited in Japan, and imported from Japan to Paris? Anyway, the books are worth 40€ : beautifully illustrated with original photographs, they are also well printed on thick paper. Plus the pleasure to see Japanese typography even when you can’t read them.

Squats et ateliers d'artistes à Paris
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Aenemya.com featured in many CSS directories

Good news! The new version of Aenemya has been recently featured in many CSS directories :

Thanks to the people who selected the site! ;-)

In other news, I’m thinking of creating badges, flyers and maybe bookmarks for the upcoming literary festival “L’Ecrit de la Fée”, which will take place in Dijon (Fr) on July 4th and 5th 2009, where La Lune Mauve – the webzine I created – will have its own stand! I may display a few prints, too.

Stay tuned, and don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed to stay updated about new work and projects :-)

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My portfolio is finally back online !

I almost didn’t believe this day would actually come : my portfolio is finally back online after a mere two years and a half of being on hiatus. The site got completely hacked late 2006, forcing me to take everything down and postpone the new version until today, where I stole free time from my traditional busy schedule.

I am finally able to share with you new artwork and design, such as :

Secret Signs ClaireGuillaumet.fr W

The new gallery is more dynamic and also more selective: I kept only my favourite (and best?) work. You can fullview each picture thanks to the neat Shadowbox plugin, which will enhance your aenemic experience.
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The Dragon Path

A few photographs I took with my Nikon D200 at le Père Lachaise graveyard, in Paris. I hadn’t been taking photographs for a long time, so this was the perfect occasion to.

Père Lachaise
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Show Top Commentators with Gravatar, a Wordpress plugin

As I was developping La Lune Mauve, a webzine which I use Wordpress as a CMS for, I needed a plugin which would display top commentators *and* their gravatars in my sidebar. Big surprise, it seems no plugin like this does actually exist.

Description

That’s why I modded the plugin originally written by Nate Sanden in order to display the Gravatar of the top commentators next to their nickname.
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Malicia

Malicia
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Sweet Autumn

Figues et or
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