Life Goals, Objectives and Direction
To Do Daily:
Constantly expand our design reference and stock library
Improve idea generation and conceptual techniques
Improve technical and execution skills
Improve drawing and sketching
Improve copywriting skills
Learn Actionscript 3.0
Expand our industry know-how and knowledge
Stay in touch with design trends, new technology and industry events
Things to Learn, Skills to Acquire in 2009:
Master Photoshop CS4 - Or at least be very very very proficient in it
Illustrator CS4 - Shortcut keys, tools, techniques, vector work
Actionscript CS3 - Dynamic stuff, animation, functions
After Effects - Motion Graphics!
Master CSS - Clean sites, valid codes, SEO'ed
Lighting in Photography - Don't just look, SEE
Build my photography portfolio site.
Drawing and sketching - Translating imagination to paper
Understand Japanese
To Explore, See, and Do in this Lifetime:
Shoot 200 people portraits (12 so far)
Head a creative agency by the age of 35
Get a group photo with 5th and 6th gen Morning Musume
View the Aurora/Northern Lights in Norway by a campfire
Walk on the ridges of the Grand Canyon
Spend $5000 in one night in Las Vegas
Explore rural Japan in Winter
Cruise to Alaska Glaciers on the Royal Caribbean
Ride jet skiis in Hawaii
Ride a 4x4 over sand dunes in Dubai