Before I begin; I would just like to point out that I am not a graphic designer in the professional sense, I am just a developer with a keen interest in building very slick and usable interfaces. My actual graphic design knowledge is purely the result of many many hours of trial and error in both Photoshop and Gimp. So if you decide to comment, which I hope you do(I need direction!), please take this into consideration and go easy on me.

So anyway, on Friday last week, I decided to open Gimp for some unknown reason and while messing around with a couple of brushes and textures I had found on the net earlier,  I suddenly got hit by a wave of inspiration for a new 2amlife.com design. You could be staring at a wall, watching a film, playing casino games or even dreaming, but when inspiration hits, you’d better get it down on paper (or onto the screen) before it evaporates. Now the problem is, when it comes to graphic design, my inspiration only lasts so long before one of two things happen:

I end up with something that looks nothing like what I envisioned originally.

- or -

As my inspiration fades, I start going around in circles, completely unable to make up my mind,  then eventually lose interest in it completely and simply abandon it.

The perfect example of an abandoned design is this very site. After making the header image, I couldn’t figure out what I wanted the rest to look like, resulting in the very plain/boring look of all the posts and pages as you can see.

So check out the images below of the concept design I came up with last Friday,  and if you have any ideas or suggestions as to where I should take this theme… please, please comment! I will be forever grateful for any type of feedback which will help steer me in the right direction here!

2amlife Concept Design