• Why the Carlface
  • It was my graduating year of university and I wanted a fun phrase for my design portfolio so I chose Carlface because a person can quite naturally Carlface while resting or when engaged in meaningful discussions across the chasms of laughter and wit or even among an entire litany of other endeavors of the spirit.

  • Interests beyond design
  • I have also learned to appreciate discovering other endeavors, as I have greeted acrylic and canvas before I might see just what combobulates yet with acrylic and canvas again sooner or later as its kinda interesting.

    There's also certainly something to be said for happening into a few off-beat biographies of creative folk that most everyone has at some point or another known in the common sense and otherwise.

    For instance, one of the more recent ones that I got a good chuckle out of was the 'Midnight Paintings Collection' a series done by one, Theodor Seuss Geisel.
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  • Authors and books that evoke some illumination
  • I will always have some appreciation for authors and abstract notions of course. I think the two that consistently pop to mind now and then throughout the years have been Goethe and Roald Dahl as well.

    They were interesting fellows of some likewise interesting vocations on and off the pressed page as they have continued to inspire countless many and some of likewise note as well.

    One can't help but to tip the proverbial hat in their direction when one comes across some work they've affected and helped to inspire across the many spectrums of media and expression.
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  • Other musings
  • I also think it's just kinda neat just discovering the newness. One yet endeavors as those that came before endeavored throughout all directions among their wits and merits towards what was known and unknown.

    As their endeavor was something of an abstracted canvas to those then as that abstracted notion of endeavor is yet carried forward as is in agreement with the spirit of time as is unique to the indvidual.

    It's most likely why I have enjoyed being able to do more freelance and contract design work because you learn more in my pleb opinion than you would have if you were in a more traditional sort of role, been there, done that as well, as one does. I'm not completely averse to that again, but it would strongly have to be of some notion unknown.

    I mean, I get it, it's not for everyone, and it's not forever, but for me currently as I continue onwards to endeavor towards the newness I think I will continue to enjoy it as my portfolio has shown recently. Heh, there is no question I would not have this scope of work I do now if I had chosen to settle for more outright comfort than the endeavor of growth.

    This endeavor of design and such will always be at times improbable something imperfect and sometimes impossible and I would wager to say that is why I have continued with the endeavor of design as there will always be some newness yet to know.

    As you may have summized, I'm a fellar of plenty words yet few customs and with that notion of endeavor this soul and spirit continues to discover.
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