Every now and then a friend or colleague of mine passes me a design proposal from the competition. I’m always interested in checking out how other design companies work and how they approach potential customers.

Just the other day when I was cleaning up my office I started putting together a pile of those design proposals. After browsing through a couple of them, I noticed that they actually really really s*cked. Most of them just cover one page and are one step away of being written on the back of a napkin.

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According to a post on InspiredMag round cornered buttons are dead. What do you to think is going to be the leading design trend for 2010? I would place my money on Vintage 2.0: a combination of vintage and the clean styles from web 2.0. No more stains, torn papers, scratches and dirty backgrounds. The Grunge era has ended. Texture is the name of the game. Colorful and happy textures.

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What did you do last sunday? I always love it when people spend time and effort into projects that are fun and creative, but don’t necessary fulfill a purpose. The following photo projects embrace that philosophy. I hope you like them as much as I do and appreciate the time invested by it’s creators.

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Don’t you just hate it when important emails tend to slip out of sight in your email box and you just forget all about them? One of my goals for this year is to work more efficient and to work more with todo lists. Maintaining a zero message email box fits perfectly inside this objective.

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Following John O’Nolan’s example. I decided to put together a small list of goals for the year 2010. One of his blog commentors mentioned that people who write down their goals earn 9x times as much as those that don’t. That alone was inspiration enough to write this small post.

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