Well on the other week I was challenged!
Heidiland aka Débora challenge me to answer to 10 questions made by her and after that nominate 3 other blogger to reply to my own questions.

These are the questions from Heidiland  and my answers...
1. How did your blog's name born? Well, easy its my name (it started to be my portfolio showcase, thats why is my name but soon I feel the need to talk more than my work, to talk about stuff outside my professional world, like fashion, traveling, cooking, etc., and it was a natural process).

2. What do you except in a blog?
When I start to follow a blog, what I must enjoy and what makes me came back everyday, is the information. Specially the images! I just love blogs with beautiful images. I also love to be informed about new trends love to learn new stuff and if I can get all that in one blog, I will follow it. I will share that blog and will go back everyday.

3. How do you define yourself in 3 words?
This is not easy and I admit I took hours to find the right words! I'm determined, ambitious and independent.

4. What do you do when you are upset?
Bite my nails and skin around my nails and shake my foot constantly.

5. Favorite music and why?
I have 3 favorite musics!
Let down from Radiohead, Closer from NIN and Just Dance from Lady Gaga, by the way click on songs' title and listen to them.
Why?
Radiohead's song is divine! Seams to me be written by angels and touch my being in a very special way. I always wished I had written it!
Nin's song has the rhythm and lyrics I just love and goes directly to my must deep and animal side and I like it.
And Lady Gaga, is joyful, positive and whenever I'm happy I remember that one an immediately start to sing and dance.

6. Favorite city and why?
"So far" Rome! I absolutely love history specially Greek-roman history. I think I must been very happy in Rome during old roman era.

7. Favorite food and why?
Chicken, specially fried.

8. Most important person in your life?
No doubt my sister.

9. If you could choose, what would you change in your life?
Oh I would change so many small things... small decisions I took and when I look back I realize how my life might be different if I would be so stubborn. But I love my life and form the top of my head the only thing I would change was done more for my dog, done more treatments who had lymphoma. Maybe she had lived more time with us.

10. What do you think about animal - cat and dog - trade (sell and buy)?
Totally against as I'm also against animal reproduction at puppy mills or just because is funny, the dog will enjoy...whatever is to earn money with animals I don't like. Beside that millions of animals are putted down to sleep each year because no one adopt them at animals shelters and local kennels. Than you have people reproducing cats and dogs.


Now I have no idea who I'm going to nominate because most of my friends doesn't blog. Only one.. so I will just nominate Vera!
My questions:
1. How did you named your blog?
2. What do you do during your personal time?
3. Favorite food and why?
4. Which music you don't like and still sing it once in a while?
5. Favorite music and why?
6. Each fear did you decided to face?
7. High heels or not?
8. Which sin you don't resist?
9. What never leaves your handbag?
10. Favorite restaurant and why?

I will be waiting the answers (imagine me posing like Mr Montgomery from Simpsons)!

Yesterday I was challenged to answer a few question and nominate another bloggers to reply to my own questions..
Soon, very soon I will reply to that challenge.
Meanwhile you may go to Heidiland blog (Aka Débora Marco) and check what the girl wrote about this challenge and also about her life in the land of cheese and chocolat (Suiça).

This I-PAD new ad will blow your mind completely!
Dentsu London did it again with such supreme imagination and mill. I'm sure everyone will agrre wiht me.



Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

http://www.denstulondon.com/

The new and fresh ad of Canon was created by Dentsu London, an design and criativity studio based in London, that also made the I-Pad Ligth-painting.
I was amazed by this work in several ways. All details of colours study, sound, chemical propertys of ink, etc.

But I think the best its to get inside of the artits 'brains' and finding out how they get inspired and how they design the ad.


Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

My source was Petapixel, here.

Starting today, my website -well my personal website http://www.anaperes.com/ - is on air just with my CV and Website.
I start to find out that to many people never had a chance to see my portfolio... And this is very important to me.

So if you want to take a look go here: http://www.anaperes.com/

"designer

Job Requirement:
- Educational level of year 12 or Higher

- Fluent Speech, good diction and ease of communication
- Skills of argument towards objectives
- Versatility, Assertiveness, Pro Activity
- Good knowledge in computer user's perspective
- Experience in development of sales activities (customer and prospect for new customers)
- Capacity of organization and development of administrative tasks
- Total and immediate availability

Role:
- Customer Care (personal and telephone)

- Performing duties in administrative costs of the sale.
- Knowledge of programs such as Autocad and 3D Max.
If you are interessed, please contact..."

Let's face it, what can be seen from this list! It seems that the Designer is a multifaceted person/worker that beside designing, is also a receptionist, telephonist, Account, Sales, etc ...

This makes me very angry ... Not that I don't like to work but put all this roles jobs only proves that in Portugal the Designer is not seen as a Designer but some kind of person how makes drawings (often  very nice ones) and needs to work for a living so let's explore this needing and hire someone to do a bit of everything and on top being ignored... If not, on profile requirements should be also the desired computer skills and they said it like is not very important!

Came on!

It seems to me unfair and incorrect, that these companies do this to us designers... we studied, we paid for it, we try to be someone and work honestly and then this! It is wrong and if I ever have to hire someone else will do it with much respect!

This year - I honestly don't know if in the past Tate made something like this - TATE have a perfect tecnologic criative solution for us to send christmas cards by email. This post cards are a little special, because they all have a connection to art and based in TATE Kids collection pieces of art.
One very good idea for children! Culture and love and friendship 'distribution' from children to friends and family.
Worth a visit, even if you don't send any ecard, you can always take a look at their website.
Well, even now I advice to check all website, specially e-shop (some goodies with discount) and take also a n educational visit to TATE Conservation.
TATE Kids ecard

Oh, and I promisse next year I will make my onw christmas card and put them for sell at my e-shop. Next year...

Lately I have been asking myself if is good have a blog or website full of google ads.
Personally, I spend a lots of time on internet and I see too many blogs with too many ads. This destroy any aesthetic and may confuse the reader and interfere with the reading of the post, specially when this ads are in the middle of the post. This can make the reader (a casual reader) think that link make the a part of the post and this is not fair to him. This can make the blogger a few extra cash but he trick the reader, the reader who as interessed on the post. Maybe this is a remote possibility but can happen, and that ads are simply visual noise, distracting the reader/visitor and for me is one of the main reasons to never go back to that blog, because in this cibernautic world, I know I can find another blog with similar interessing posts and less visual noise/ads.
Is known that the human eye needs space/blank to read one text and the blank unifies and gives meaning to the phrase and if exist to many information is extremely likely that the reader will be tired very soon about the post and the guilty is everything surronding the test is confusing and needless.
But seams to me, everyday is more and more google ads on blogs and bloggers may not have teh conscience of what they really doing, and just focus on monetary benefits. It's fair but it's kind of sad.
I can not blame this attitude completely, because I myself have this kind of ads, but I think they are positioned discreetly, even secondary  ... Always in the end, at the end of the blog, at the end of my widgets bars. This way, I give the reader/visitor the decision to click or not in google ads and I don't think in the monetary benefits.

Whenever I come across this situation, I can't stop feeling a little tricked and troubled.
So I would like to give a few tips about this issue:

1) If you use google ads or another kind of ads in your blog or website, they must be marks as such and clearly distinguished from the post.
2) Avoid similarities (in style) between your blog and ads, ie, the lettering and colors must be different. Even in anyway they match, must be a distinction
3) Make a break on post to put one ad, distract the reader to something to important in that moment he's reading your post and his full attention should be on your post.

Remember, the reader has the power and the right to choose not to visit your blog any more, and if he start to feel troubled with exaggeration ads in such short space, I'm pretty sure you can count your visitor will not came back so soon and you will lose visitors that in a long term, could be regular visitors and maybe eventually they would use your links and ads.

Well, I confess that I'm wroting this post with a little of hope that some how a chain starts and one day I may realize all bloggers gain conscience and all internet experience will be must more pleasant.

Another 'party program' around Japan.

Espaço Nimas is promoting a Japanese Night, where Hana Kogure songwriter and singer will act as well dancer and coreagrapher Hajime Fujita. The movie Madadayo will be projected and they will also hosted a japanese cocktail with sushi, sakê, sashimi and tea. All this just for 10 euros. Start at 21h30 on December 12.
Must be fun.

Program: http://www.divulgacaodigital.com/void-creations/newsletters/lisboninjapan/email.html

I believe marketing and a good ads it's important to any company survive, but same time to time one company strikes hard with such ignorance and non sense that my poor soul fade away!
I don't know if all of you knows Vida e caffè (everyone who know portuguese... yes the acent is wrong... made by them!) but it's a franchising company all about espresso coffee and portuguese way of life! Well I'm portuguese and when I find out about this - a friend of mine write on her blog about this - I was simply without words.
Bad translations, bad images and most of all this kind of propaganda makes Portugal looks like some kind of fool country! This it's a south african company, and some one told me they like to do everything 'in portuguese way', but they do not it well.
And my friends, newspapers with articles like this .... OH MY GOD! How someone can make such interview and be happy about it? If you want to know how portuguese live, drink coffee, lunch, etc... I will be gland to do tell you, but stop publishing and advertising yourself this way!

If you want, read the article here and also see Vida e Caffè website!

When I was looking for pictures of Diesel campaings I found this website with a delicious small collection of Diesel ads from several campaigns over the years. I just want to share it with you people this discover!

http://messagefromjohn.com/art/photography/mocking-the-real-world-with-diesel-advertising/

I'm always stubborn about let myself go to this 'modern' stuff until one day I find myself so curious about it that I really need to try it!
Twitter was and still is one of this cases. Few friends told me facebook and twitter was really cool and beside my initial resistance I submitted to twitter (not -yet- to facebook).
Just started, today!