A Place Between Here

Phew end of 2009 was fairly business, now it’s 2010.

My website got an overhaul, due to response from customers, and I plan on making some blog entries which will provide an insight in my insight, starting from today (since January is a bit dead, work-wise) so today I’m starting a bunch of small series of tutorials, 2D, 3D, animation and some compositing…. to display my way of working, thinking and to improve my portfolio

In the brewing:

3D tutorial – A concept beer glass (Maya modeling and MentalRay renders)

2D Tutorial – an ISO-metric view of the street I live in (Vector)

Web tutorial – fast setup and usage of WordPress

Multimedia – webcontent, avoiding Flash.

I’ve been so lucky to have meet the people behind mundraub.org and I’ve joined into their project.

My role in this project will be as developer with focus on geotagging, google maps and iPhone apps.

The site will launch its version 1.0 on 23rd November and we are currently working hard to make it a user friendly experience. In the beginning of 2010 the iPhone application will launch.

The short movie I’ve been helping out with (Visual effects), The Line by Xavier Agudo is premiering on 6th November 2009 in Prenzelauer Berg, Berlin

Read more about the event as details come up here: The Line’s official homepage

I decided to explain my decision of name, because I seem to have to explain what is says every time I speak to potential customers over the phone.

Some time ago I was sitting down brainstorming on some names for something that wouldn’t indicate exactly what I do (since I do not want to limit myself) plus it shouldn’t be specific to language or location (I was living at that time in Sweden).

A Place Between Here, was choosen for several reasons.

• simple words (easy to spell, hard to spell wrong)
• easy pronunciation (even though I tend to say it faster and faster every time)
• abstract yet simple ( a place between here ?).

Well until now I’ve been using a logo consisting of APBH, but was thinking I needed something more.

So I’ve been looking into the meaning of the sentence, and it turns out it was a pretty good decision of name.

Oxford Dictionary on each word:

A

ORIGIN Middle English : weak form of Old English ān [one.]

Place

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French, from an alteration of Latinplatea ‘open space,’ from Greek plateia (hodos) ‘broad (way).’

Between

ORIGIN Old English betwēonum, from be [by] + a Germanic wordrelated to two .

Here

ORIGIN Old English hēr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch andGerman hier, also to he .

So in conclusion One Open Space/Broad Road 2 here

Even better than before considering my broad spectrum of services.

Now for design-thinking a logo for that