return to splendour

it’s 10 september now. almost 10 months since my last (and first) post on here. it’s true; everything’s changed in that time. how to explain what’s happened in that time. first and foremost, i quit my job. my dream job that ended up being a nightmare. creative director of a big international company that was famous for creativitiy and good design. bullshit. i spent two years fighting to get anything good done there. in the end, my portfolio pieces are really nice, but not a lot of it ended up having an impact. anyhow, they’re loosing tons of money (millions a year) so i don’t imagine they’ll be around for long. not in the same form anyways. but i’m not bitter

i got a really good payoff when i left. so i’m taking a year off. well… that’s a bit dependent on us selling our flat, actually. if we sell it and get good bank, i’ll probably take longer off. if we don’t sell it, i may start half-heartedly freelancing again in the new year.

so that was back in june. what have i been doing since then? lots of travelling. lots of bike riding. lots of thinking. i moved to berlin. sorta. i’m here now, planning on spending until the end of october here to decide if i like it enough to stay. tomorrow’s a week that i’ve been here… so far, so good. i guess i’ve come to sort myself out, too. i’m taking a year off cuz i’m sick of design. i’m done with making massive amounts of money for big corporations. i’m done with making people want to buy things they have no real need for. and thinks that i don’t really believe in. i got a lot to figure out, really.

i’ve been adding to my collection of vintage lugged. most recent acquisition: 1956 holdsworth zephyr. full campag c-record group set. he’s real purdee. i’m sure there’ll be more posts of him soon. he came with me to berlin. he likes it here, cars don’t try to kill him and the roads are smooth and not covered with broken glass.

anyhow. just a short entry today to quickly catch up on what’s been going on. more later, and i promise i’ll post more frequently.

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