http://www.webcoffee.eu en http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/29-iphone-3gs-suspiciously-good-purchase Looks like the first time in my life, I got lucky. I have bought the new iPhone 3GS 16 GB for just about 30 euros (877 Kč) @ Vodafone eshop. Apparently they were having a ten minute mistake, while selling those for incredible prices. But was it truly a mistake? Some may say it was a great marketing coup to attract ... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:42:00 +0000 Blog > tech http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/28-calling-all-viagra-spammers-over-here When summarizing my blogging experience, there still was one issue, that didn't let me sleep well; viagra. One of the world's most massive promotion campaigns of viagra spam knocked over at my door, too. My blog started to be an ultimate lair for various kinds of not-only viagra spammers. The situation became entirely relentless, so it forced me ... Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:45:32 +0000 Blog > tech http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/27-d-m-scott-truly-pays-attention-to-his-readers It is no secret, that WebCoffee was completely presented in my final school thesis. After the idea of a blog creation came, I needed to find any theoretical explanation of the subject matter. It took me no long to find D. M. Scott's The New Rules of Marketing and PR. The book not only gave me the essential ... Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:04:50 +0000 Blog > life http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/26-transparency-still-a-problem-when-it-comes-to-print Since I've jumped into the print sphere back in 2006, there still is one problem that bothers my life quite much: tranparency. Whether using tranparent psd files over at Illustrator or just tunning the artwork with a native Illustrator effects, the output files usually end up somehow messed up. Because I'm surely not alone struggling with ... Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:02:47 +0000 Blog > graphics http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/25-educationized-how-not-to-become-an-engineer It finally has come. The neverending part of my life is succesfully gone. Last week, I've finished my studies at the university, with an engineer degree. When looking back, still can't believe, that such a zero can achieve this post. One thing is for sure though; I am pretty much of a multifunctional that could be evident. ... Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:03:44 +0000 Blog > life http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/24-devices-battle-apple-iphone-vs-sony-psp PSP is an old affair; at least for myself. As a fan of handheld devices had to have it back in 2003 though. When digging even deeper, Sega Game Gear was the first of my life. Never had Nintendo, but looking at Wii nowadays should be starting to think about one. If talking about iPhone, it originally ... Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:55:14 +0000 Blog > tech http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/23-the-never-dying-funky-soul-of-james-brown Today, it is two years, since the funky soul of the „hardest working man in showbiz“ have left. The fact of this anniversary made me play the best of his tunez. He truly was Mr. Somebody. Not only giving us the fundament of soul music. His performance was stunning worldwide for years; as much as ... Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:31:06 +0000 Blog > music http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/22-five-things-to-love-and-hate-about-the-mac It has been about 2 years since I've switched my personal computer to a mac. Therefore, this supposed to be one of my first posts here; after those 2 yrs of working simultaneously on a Dell Precision PC at work and a 17\" MacBook Pro at home, I feel that it's just about the right time to compare both ... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:53:13 +0000 Blog > tech http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/21-this-month-39-s-survey-cigarette-in-the-header For the new month's coming up, the situatin needs to have a new survey to be applied. Here I will summarize the old one, share my thoughts and comment some progress of the web. The reason of publishing this post is a bit specific; I have recently posted a website critique threat over at creativebits. I have not received much of ... Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:44:19 +0000 Blog > graphics http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/20-when-shooting-perfectly-poured-icy-cold-beer I have signed into a photo-shooting course about two months ago. We went through the very basics of holding the camera, getting the composition and managing all the main modes. Throughout the course I'm realizing, that photographer I am never gonna be. I'm just not that kind of guy, who wakes up early picking his camera, gunning for the ... Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:09:04 +0000 Blog > life http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/19-digitalism-live-in-concert-at-paradiso German duo Digitalism rocks the electro scene since 2004. As seen at this year's „Love Parade“ or „Sonne, Mond und Sterne“ the show is held in a quite impressive way. I felt pretty happy when recently found this live concert at Paradiso. It demonstrates the energy of Idealism; their debut album. I am quite thankful for a digital age, and ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:23:58 +0000 Blog > music http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/18-the-hunt-for-a-solid-iphone-earbuds First generation iPhone is my favourite gear, this year. It is stable, the battery still lasts for about two days and the whole usually works just about it should. The situation with it's original white earbuds is not that satysfying though; that's what I've realized about five years ago, when bought a first iPod. The phones were barely constructed, ... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:51:58 +0000 Blog > tech http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/15-the-process-of-making-this-cup-of-coffee Here is the place to introduce this website a little. General purposes could be found at the about section. Here I'll write about why the whole is, as it is; from the visual to the functional point of view. When started to do the main blog layout, the idea of creating a portfolio site have ... Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:15:51 +0000 Blog > graphics http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/14-green-category-let-39-s-use-the-brain-shall-we Life is a great thing. It needs to be taken as it goes. Green is the place for the rest of my brains, let's say the left hemisphere. I like when something makes sense, it is like a breath of fresh energy for me. The feel that people do things correctly. It is not always like that though; ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:35:14 +0000 Blog > life http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/13-orange-category-listening-to-the-world Music is related to graphics and design generally as my hands are to a keyboard for instance. I do listen oft. Almost anywhere; home, work or on the go, with scrobbling on. I feel that music's one of the things we do live for, in a way. Last.fm is not just a fab social site, it does offer a ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:02:09 +0000 Blog > music http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/9-cyan-category-technology-at-it-39-s-best I do love new technology. God, how much I do. The title of this category is a bit sarcastic though; I got the feeling, that everything I acquire turns into a wreck after a slight usage. To be more concrete. Just when bought a new MacBook Pro, the display was somehow messed up so had to send it for recovery. Not ... Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:40:06 +0000 Blog > tech http://www.webcoffee.eu/blog/8-purple-category-when-trying-to-express-visually In this category I'll be covering various problems of trying to express with the use of visual language – graphics. I'll be facing topics of preparing data for print, as much as getting flash to listen to me. This is ment to be the most specialized category of this blog, because of solving software issues but ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:27:29 +0000 Blog > graphics http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/36-hockey-camp It has been a while, since I have posted the last portfolio update. In fact, december is quite rushy, but a short month. There is always dozens of small pf-like projects going, but those are not the ones to shares over here, to be honest. One project came my way though; Czech International Hockey Camp is a ... Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:12:12 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/personal/35-webcoffee Today, the day has come. After a time spend on the development of WebCoffee, I'm finally launching version 1.0. Originally ment to be just my portfolio, but has quite overgrown into this personal fairground. You can read more about the construction side in The process of making this cup of coffee post or get to ... Sat, 1 Nov 2008 11:48:11 +0000 Portfolio > personal http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/33-puma-czechrep Puma's head marketing agency from Germany is a great one. They do fine stuff, but sometimes, there is visible the amout of work, so they do lag. They are bringing most of the worldwide designs and are quite straigh with it's observation. Agency is doing mainly local affears the likes of indoor graphics production, mainly according to materials ... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:54:58 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/32-magazine-euro EURO is a czech business magazine. It cooperates with a better known BusinessWeek. They are bringing economy and business infos every week. Written and presented with bit of bonny sarcasm. Great job do also cover designers, which burlesque with ease all big local animals. Magazine was 10 yrs on the market so needed to celebrate it somehow. Party ... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:00:48 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/identity/31-webcoffee WebCoffee's not just a web name. It will serve me as an identity based on rosace business cards which are used also as a WebCoffee promotion tool among WiFi covered cafeterias. I didn't want to promote a company name. Just my and the blog name. Therefore I do not communicate any logos or other corporate elements. Have not printed them ... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:05:51 +0000 Portfolio > identity http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/30-solodoor Tenders are quite specific. It is place where all the the participants go together to be the best. Usually, they are barely aprreciated. SOLODOOR announced tender for their new marketing campaigne, including any new materials to promote those ideas. Company's old materials with all the identity around was quite fusty. So it truly needed a new concept. Campaign „The ... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:35:16 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/29-llentab My first car branding affair. Was living in presumption, that when having to do a huge sticker to be applied on the car, it have to be vector-only. I was wrong. Llentab asked us to prepare any visual we think will work with the emphasis on www and logo communication. Image done in Photoshop with a ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:28:43 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/personal/28-sista-afro Personal projects are keepin' me alive. Image done in Illustrator. Original sista photo in lightbox. She was special. Have known it alredy when taking the pic on that tweaky Belarusian pool table. This one created to be the first to fill my empty, white walls. Now I know Illustrator is an ultimate application. The canvas was set ... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:22:01 +0000 Portfolio > personal http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/26-driza-bone-activ Driza-Bone came when I have overeaten. Just had to take off illustrator for at least a day or two. Therefore boosted Photoshop after a longer time of a week or so and have done this pure photo collage out of seven product pics. I am overacting quite sometimes. Image done at 120×65cm 300dpi CMYK. The final piece was ... Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:30:51 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/24-coca-cola Get your heart goin' is a lifestyle event supported by Coca-Cola. The idea of those republic-wide sessions is to arrange crosscountry hiker walks, because walk is a basic human move, not so picky and healthy, in a way. All materials done in accordance to identity given by Coca-Cola. Events realized again by MPR agency. Flyers, ... Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:40:49 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/web/23-pps-transport PPS is a small transportation company operating mainly among Prague area. It's website redesign goes hand in hand with the whole company's rebrand. Cyan color used as a core for the identity, applied on all materials including car brandings. ... Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:39:11 +0000 Portfolio > web http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/personal/22-blr-renaissance This image has a special value for me. There are two reasons for this; it displays my subjective point of view about BLR and it's nippy atmosphere, composed under influence of Mezzanine, the album I love. This is an example of how music influences design. Never knew that it's possible to have the same creepy feeling when taking those pics ... Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:58:40 +0000 Portfolio > personal http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/20-llentab Cover done for the CD version of company's web profile. We do quite a lot of various things for Llentab. Montage done in Photoshop. It consists of two stock images. Blueprint texture is an AutoCad drawing converted throughout Illustrator into a vector backgroud. The rest are just some blend modes. No big deal. Visual used as a ... Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:30:20 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/identity/19-iberius Iberius is importer and distributor of spanish shoes. They are handling brands the likes of Picollinos, Callaghan or Joe Sanchez. The task was to rebrand the whole identity, starting with the logo, moving on to envelopes, business cards, bags and sealing tapes. The colors were more client determined, adequate Pantone opoosites have been set. The scheme ... Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:05:35 +0000 Portfolio > identity http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/personal/18-dlm Digital lifestyle magazine is a German tech magazine. In March 2008 they were setting up a contest to design magazine cover. Because have never been doin' such a thing, decided to proove my InDesign skills a little. All materials were provided by DLM. ... Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:45:42 +0000 Portfolio > personal http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/17-t-kostalova This flyer was done for a friend, who runs manicure business in a small city. The interior of the saloon is painted with fresh colors, so therefore comes the female-friendly color scheme. Flyer has 210×100 mm format to fit in a standard DL envelopes. It was also ment to be a summer discount voucher distributed through ... Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:32:43 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/web/16-re-creative Republica Creative is a division of Republica, I do work for. The page is a small brother of the main web – Republica Production. Because of the 21st century, we also needed to have an online portfolio. The next thing was, that the company has invented an innovative system of financing marketing activities, called Synergy Menu. Therefore the flash ... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:07:50 +0000 Portfolio > web http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/personal/15-24-band I have been visiting Belarus during September 2007. It is a great place with unique atmosphere of the old socialism times. It is visible almost everywhere – architecture, cars, people all around. Have been there with a special friend. He is a superstar. Have met a lot of new interesting people, so had to take pictures ... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:18:48 +0000 Portfolio > personal http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/identity/14-kozusky-son Identity of a simple logo created for a friend, which provides with his father real estate services. Because they act together, there was a need of just single business card communicating both of them. The idea of rotated rectangle KK logo is going to serve on stationery as well as on construction banners and other industry ... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:02:02 +0000 Portfolio > identity http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/13-daniel-stangl Daniel Stangl is a fruitful historic rally driver. We were kindly asked to cut a short propagation movie for his sponsors. Every DVD should of course have a cover, which was my job here. Source materials were nothing special this time, but as usually tried to have some fun a bit. The only picture acquired (the ... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:03:38 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/11-cp-desoutter CP catalogue was about the same affair as early posted Atlas Copco. The main difference was in the software used, which in this case was QuarkXPress, because of the source template. Both catalogs are done in 5 languages with the edition about 2000 pcs/lng. ... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:18:14 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/web/21-jml JML is a mid-weight company, producing vitamins, minerals and food supplements of my brothers. Website designed according to a corporate identity given. Therefore the winded logo usage, colors and fonts came from the manual. The assignment was to recreate more than 10 yrs old website with emphasis on products and services presentation. After a long debate have ... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:10:02 +0000 Portfolio > web http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/10-coca-cola-blak Coca-Cola Blak and it's teaser campaigne was one of the first projects I was thrown into after my bosses escape to England for half a year language training. Here I've realized how the things really work in a small agency, especially what does it mean to get the product on the market even for a giant like ... Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:03:22 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/9-vodafone-ad Photoshop is pretty good at compsitioning artworks especially when it comes to photos and other raster images. There was no need of heavy typography so Photoshop was ideal to make the whole, even though in every photocollage there is still it's place for vectors to break it down a bit. Image done for Republica's di­rector Viktor Pavlovic and his ... Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:43:13 +0000 Portfolio > print http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/personal/8-circles-buster This image created just for making the look at my suitcase better. My suitcase has a brownish like color, so therefore the source guy picture from about early 90's was an ideal base to built on. The rest of the colors then go according to that scheme. At first wanted to make just a single image, ... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:19:36 +0000 Portfolio > personal http://www.webcoffee.eu/portfolio/print/7-atlas-copco This project was a typical DTP affair. An example of heavy InDesign usage. The catalogue has 296 pages and was done in 5 laguages (CZ, PL, MA, RU, RO) according to an english template. It took about 20 hours per language to translate it, but not only with the work on entertaining projects does one live. It went through ... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:03:52 +0000 Portfolio > print