Weekly Update #1
In this weekly update I talk about what I've been doing for the past week, my thoughts on the loss of cinema icon David Lynch and what's happening with professional network read.cv.
Image created for the Porto Cineclub.
Hey! Its Hugo.
Another week has passed, hopefully the people you care about and yourself have been doing quite well! This week I had a few interesting things lined up, but it has been another rather uneventful week.
Rebranding my personal website
So let's start with this, I totally remade my personal website. Before, I had a portfolio living under a subdomain which was my main space on the web, but as I'm now moving deeply into the development and release of studio Menschen, I felt the need of also changing the way I've approached my personal website until now.
Your personal website should reflect who you are and the things you deeply care about.
This is probably the hardest step, asking yourself who are you now? What do you want to share with people? To me this was quite simple, I wanted to share the process behind creating a design studio and my professional interests are in design, teaching, speaking, entrepreneurship and writing. You have yours, creating a personal website is just about sharing with people what makes you excited.
For the technical people out there I'm using Bootstrap Studio as my website builder of choice. I recommend you to check it out, specially if you don't mind being fairly hands on and if you don't like the pricing of other platforms.
The main goal with my personal website is to share what I care about and hopefully get people to share something with me. If you're interested in talking with me, send me an email at [email protected], or alternatively, fill the contact form or connect via LinkedIn.
Regarding Menschen, I've been hard at work with branding and creating a proper business plan. Hopefully I can share with you some notes sharing this process soon!
porto's cineclub
This week I've also gotten an amazing chance of being part of the Porto's Cineclub project.
For every session they invite a designer to create the cover for the informative sheet they make, its a long standing project run by amazing people.
I got a shot at designing the cover for the movie Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard which is the image of this Note and also will eventually be available to be seen on their website. Although I'm not a huge fan of the movie itself designing this cover was a lot of fun, I wanted to use Mexican Lillies as the main motive of the design to try to represent the story of Emilia, which I'm not spoiling! Thank you for the invitation to be a part of this project, absolutely special for me.
read.cv is winding down
Read.cv for those of you that don't know is a professional network, like LinkedIn but catered towards the creative industry.
I really did love this platform, it has a clean layout, it was made by a fairly small team, and was actually useful, without trash content being shared. It was confirmed, yesterday, that Read.cv was bought out by Perplexity.
I think its a shame to see such and incredible project be terminated/absorbed. I'm curious to see what is going to happen next and what Perplexity will do with the platform.
dear David lynch,
I can't tell you how surprised I was by the death of the great David Lynch. We've truly lost one of the great minds of cinema.
I remember the first time I watched something David worked on, it was the movie Mulholland Drive. To this day its still one of the most intriguing movies I've watched. Lynch is without doubt going to be remembered by the genius he was, immortalized by movies like this, pieces of art.
Genius, Visionary, Surreal, Dark, Unsettling, Unique...
My friend Emma and I talked a little about David and she showed me a video about him talking about consciousness that was shared on social media a lot, listening to this man talk, about anything really, is getting a glimpse of what his brain and thought process is like, truly unmatched.
Although forever missed, you can still watch masterpieces like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire, or listen to some of his music, like I did whilst writing this Note.
