It's been a while again

The understatement of the year or maybe years, I'm not even sure how long it's been. Well I've switched things up years since getting a job in a factory my original plan was to have them pay for my bachelor's degree only to find out that they wouldn't pat for Graphic Design. What the will pay for is business so at the moment I'm going  to school for business marketing I figured I could help myself at the same time if I ever get my own business up and running. I'm in Brazil at the moment for Christmas and New Year's classes start on the 8th. Cheers

Maybe I'll start this new tradition at the end of my post I'll put a link to an article I like or think is useful today's will be about UX design.... I guess I need to read up on this stuff!😎

http://designrfix.com/web-design/ux-design-improve-sites-conversion-rate

No Bueno

No Bueno

Well I put out some flyers, around town haven't received one nibble yet. I am going to design a new one and try again, but time is running out on my idea of freelancing instead of getting a part time job. School starts on May 19th so after that it will be too difficult to keep up my efforts. I paid for an on Facebook for my side company Photo Saver (check it out and like my page please) which got me a lot of paid views but not one single person contacted me about it. I think that in the case of that page I need to educate people a little more on the services I provide. So I will continue to try, because I will never give up, however there is some good news, the weather here is finally starting to improve, which has given my motivation a boost.

B&W Challenge Day # 14 - Open Doors

Open Doors

This photo I took at last years Oktoberfest here in my city. The photo was taken with my trusty Sony, and then I tuned it up using Photomatix Pro, which usually I like to use for creating HDR photos, but in this instance I used it to make this photo into a B&W image. The photo has seen a pretty good response on my Flickr account as far as page views go it is one of more more popular ones. Speaking of my Flickr account I have just recently joined so I do not have a lot of photos on there yet but I will be posting a little something on here soon about that. Anyways back to this picture...... here it is!

About the Name refocus

Hello, since I said I would explain more about the name of my little freelance business, here it goes. First of all I didn't capitalize the (r), well mainly because I didn't want to, but also as style choice ( I just think it looks better.) The 2nd thing behind the name is a little more deep ( meaning lengthy ) some of it personal some of it slogan driven.
I had been driving a taxi for 7 years, until the company closed. This was the first time I had to "refocus" what I wanted to do with my life. So I decided to take advantage of my unemployment by going to college. So then I graduated not too long ago, but unfortunately I have found out that most employers want a bachelor's degree. Well guess what time it became??? Yep you guessed it time to refocus! So I decided to become a freelancer. Now as far as the Slogan side of it, I thought of all kinds of tag lines like " Time to get your business back in focus" " refocus on what matters to you" or just "get focused" like I said there are a lot of possibilities with the name. Now all I have to do is get refocused on this freelancing thing and I'll be all right. Oh yeah if you need any help getting your businesses refocused, let me know and we can help each other.

Hello everyone, my name is Roger Williams I am 34 years old and live in Kokomo Indiana.  I just started this blog to jump start my plans of being a  freelance Graphic Designer. Since I graduated earlier this year with an associates degree in Visual Communications, I have been unable to find a job in my desired area. Since Graphic Design is what I really want to do and I can not afford to wait around any longer or go back to school for 2 more years, I have decided to start my own freelance Graphic Design business which I have decided to call refocus (and yes the R is not capitalized on purpose.)I will explain more later about the name but that will be another time. I am currently in the beginning stages of the business and I am still learning the ends and outs of what I should or shouldn't be doing. So for right now I really don't have much to report on, I really just wanted to write a post to let people know what I'm about.

I have created a few things that you may want to check out; the first is the community I created for creative/designer type people around where I live, give it a look and join if you like it.
Kokomo Designers Club   

The other Link I would like to share is my own portfolio. 
My portfolio

And now for a little unveiling of the logo......