Wallpaper made for La Lune Mauve. It can be downloaded for free on deviantART.

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The feedback has been great so far ! The new design has been eventually featured in many CSS showcases :

Moreover, the article « design portfolios that introduce web designers » also features Bloody Marie.

I am extremely thankful for these selections ! Since the previous design had received so much great feedback, too, I wasn’t sure if the new design, being way more personal and crafty, would get as much exposure. I’m proud it did :)

For those of you who can read French, I wrote an extensive making-of of this new blog design, whose first and second parts can be read directly on Bloody Marie.

Obviously web design has progressively taken a big place in my life and heart. I simply love it, and each opportunity to put the limit further, to learn new CSS and PHP tricks, as well as being lucky to see the final work selected in CSS directories or web design trend articles is fantastic.

This said, I will try to focus more on digital art in 2010, I miss it a lot. The opportunity of working on new commissions would be a plus, too. I’m seriously thinking about getting a real freelance entrepreneur status, in order to get back to business ! I’m sure it will be exciting.

Thanks for reading this, and for keeping up with Aenemya ! \m/

Fourth version of my personal blog.

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The last few weeks I’ve been secretly working on a “mysterious project” aside from my daily dose of lalunemauving… However there are a few pieces of evidence for you to guess which of my websites is going to come back to life this time !

By the way, Aenemya.com has been featured (in first position ^^) among 55 Beautiful Green Layouts in Web Design. Thanks a lot to Gisele Muller for picking my portfolio out. The site has been showcased on CSS Deluxe, too!

Off for now, have a good week ! ;-)

That's why today I decided to wake my Nikon D200 up and take some photographs at Montmartre, a famous place that I, however, only visited once in my lifetime. Here are a few shots from my walk, you can see more on FlickR :

I’ve also made a lot of improvements to La Lune Mauve, the cultural webzine I’ve put back online last January. Remember its steampunk interface ? Well, I’ve lightened it in order to allow the site to load much faster. I redesigned the categories, too (though I still have to work on the community category – Planète), and I truly hope the site’s navigation will be easier from now on.

I also wrote a few reviews, in French, though – unfortunately, I don’t write as much as I used to. And I do miss it a lot, like I miss taking care of my “real” blog. There’s no chance I will update it again, but something’s been on my mind for a few months : I’d like to redesign it, too, and make it become a kind of personal Netvibes page. The blog would agregate most of my personal feeds (Tumblr, FlickR, Twitter, my La Lune Mauve reviews, etc.), and would allow anyone to know what I’ve been up to. What do you think ?

Otherwise, I must admit I miss creating digital artwork A LOT. I haven’t created a single illustration for months – it seems my work and my nocturnal activities as obsessional geek have completely prevent me from starting something new. I feel sad about it, I wish I had, like, three or four parallel lives – one life for each field of my current life. I guess when I’m done ripening my websites, I’ll switch to another form of creation. In the meanwhile, I’m focusing on web design, learning a lot day after day (and even more since I’m a fulltime web designer/front-end developer at Pixmania).

Oh, I almost forgot : Aenemya.com has been featured on CSS Dsgn, DesignShack, Use jQuery and on Kevin Craft’s blog. I also wrote an article about my work on Le Fantastique au Féminin (in French).

That’s all for today! :-)
Remember : you can follow my Twitter updates anytime (in English, or in French – sorry, I’m so talkative there! T_T), feel free to get in touch anytime !

Today I stumbled upon two awesome Japanese books (there was even a third one, but I couldn’t afford it >_<), edited by the Editions de Paris, which focus on… Paris interiors, usages and people. Isn’t it ironic to buy such books about Paris, edited in Japan, and imported from Japan to Paris? Anyway, the books are worth 40€ : beautifully illustrated with original photographs, they are also well printed on thick paper. Plus the pleasure to see Japanese typography even when you can’t read them.

Here’s a selection of workplaces which I do fancy a lot! I randomly picked the pictures from some of my favourite blogs around. (Click on the pictures to see them larger on their respective sites.)

My own desk suddenly look rather dull (the bad quality pic doesn’t help) :

However I’ve started a vintage photograph collection which begins to look quite nice actually :

Still, a lot of work and research to do until I can have this kind of place – even before that, I’ll have to rent a much wider place than my current studio before I can really stick to this delirium ;-)

More decoration porn!

• The Selby
• On My Desk
• 12 ways to pimp your office
• Creative work environments: do you live in one?

• CSS Brigit
• CSS Based
• CSS Design Yorkshire
• CSS Bahcesi
• CSS Illustrated
• Design Fridge
• Unmatched Style
• CSS Daddy
• 101 Best Websites

Thanks to the people who selected the site! ;-)

In other news, I’m thinking of creating badges, flyers and maybe bookmarks for the upcoming literary festival “L’Ecrit de la Fée”, which will take place in Dijon (Fr) on July 4th and 5th 2009, where La Lune Mauve – the webzine I created – will have its own stand! I may display a few prints, too.

Stay tuned, and don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed to stay updated about new work and projects :-)

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Corporate website commissioned by TAMA Production, a French video production compagny.

While the mock-up itself was done by Malice Creation, I did the XHTML/CSS/Javascript development, as well as the Flash intro which can be seen on the homepage.

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Flyer and business card designed for Benjamin Gaullier, French gardener.

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Complete artwork for the fifteenth version of La Lune Mauve, the website I created back in 2000 and which has become a dream-like webzine dedicated to the alternative culture.

I never worked on such an intense project until this one, it took me 5 years to bring La Lune Mauve back online…

The site’s layout changes day and night, which makes the website twice as surprising.

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