About
My name is Joen Asmussen, I was born on the 25th of November 1979. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark. Noscope is my personal journal and during a six year period from 2001 - 2007, a monthly updated graphical outlet.
- I graduated from high school in 1999, majoring in maths and physics.
- I studied graphic design in south Denmark from 1999-2002.
- Since 2002 I’ve been employed at Copenhagen-based Titoonic, creating games & digital toys. Here, I’ve specialized in usability, interface and interaction design.
- I’ve been freelance since November 2007
I believe in hard work over inherent gifts. Noscope is the result; by not having a clear goal in sight or purpose to existence, it came out of nowhere to serve as a personal learning platform. Eventually it grew meaning: pretty pictures for the love of doing it. I’ve learned, finding purpose is just a matter of looking in the right odd places.
Random Facts
- I love Sweden, used to live there and speak Swedish fluently.
- I enjoy reading science fiction, especially that of Arthur C. Clarke. My favourite book of his is Rendezvous with Rama.
- I love photographing, although I need a new camera.
- I find clouds to be one of the most fascinating part of nature, because no matter where I go, they can always serve me up something nice.
- I also love fractals.
- Kate has composed music for many of my installments. I purchased her great CD, and you should too.
- I am a member of Amnesty International and Unicef.
- I was always against the second Iraq war.
- I am very much against capital punishment.
- I am for the strict separation of church and state.
- I do not believe in god. That makes me an atheist. Atheism means “the lack of belief in a god or gods”. It does not mean that I believe there is no god. There’s a slight difference.
- There is no such thing as talent. “Talent” is greek for “divine gift”, and since I do not believe in anything divine, I do not believe in predisposed skills. Instead, hard work, persistence and interest can get you a long way.
- During my 6 year “installment” period, I made 5 illustrations every month from 2001 to 2007. That adds up to 360 illustrations.
- I consume music in huge amounts. Some of my favourite bands are Atomic Swing, Sonic Youth and Kent. I’m also very much into jazz music with John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Stan Getz leading the way.
- I’m currently using a Trust 1200 digitizer, but wouldn’t recommend it to anyone but beginners, due to bad software and a bad pen-shape. Go for Wacom tablets, always.
- Lately I’ve been developing a generative graphics engine which I’ve dubbed Von Neumann in honor of hungarian mathematician John von Neumann whose middle-square method took center stage of early versions of the engine.
- I’ve started selling print versions of various images from my archive. It feels good to finally get physical copies of my bits and bytes.
Last Played Music
Camera
I have no camera at the moment.
Colophon
The lot is powered by Wordpress, some plugins and zenphoto.
The design for this weblog is entitled “Pangea“. A previous design for this weblog was “Fauna“, which is now free and open-source.
Services
Experience
I have an education in print design and I’m trained in the web / game industry. 5 years of industry experience in interface and interaction design as well as usability in both web, application and game interfaces. Working with the talented folks at Titoonic, I have worked with clients such as LEGO (LEGO Mindstorms).
I love doing usability and interaction design, and I’m always having a blast doing logos and visual identities. I also do standards based websites (CSS and XHTML). I also deliver design and usability reviews in PDF form.
Services
Pricing
Prices are decided based on projects. Prices are available by the hour or per-project.
Process
When you’re working with me, there are a number of things you, as a customer, can do to ensure that things flow smoothly. Most of these things are easy to do, but help optimize my time so that I can dedicate the most of it to your task.
The Process
Depending on the type and size of your project, the workflow is usually this:
- Design mockup phase
- You approve mockup / return feedback
- Design finalization phase
- You approve final design
- Website is built
- You give corrections
- Website is corrected and launched
At Project Start
Depending on the type of project, it’s important for me to have access to the following:
- FTP details
Login and password to your webserver via FTP (optionally, SFTP) - MySQL Database details
Login, password, database name and database host. These are sometimes referred to asDB_USER,DB_PASS,DB_NAME,DB_HOST
Both of these pieces of information are essential to my being able to work on your website, at all. Should this information be delayed, it’ll potentially delay the whole project, which of course, isn’t too great.
In addition to the above login information, it would be helpful for me to have:
- Any reference material you want me to examine
- Graphic material / assets to use in the project