In my last post about my personal history of magazines, I mentioned the Offscreen magazine. In the beginning of this magazine, there is this “Describe your average day” section that I reeeeally liked. If somebody wants to do a magazine / book just about average days in interesting professions - please do so. I would buy it.
Here I want to describe my average day. Not especially because I think you will find it interesting (that would be a little bit arrogant), but because I personally think it’s interesting (that’s even more arrogant, I’m afraid…). As a matter of fact I think a lot about how I work and how I can improve it. I’m reading quite a lot productivity articles and try little hacks that can make something more efficient. Elegant example: Shortcut keys.
I don’t think about these things to leave the computer sooner, but to fit more successful results into the hours that I work each day. But I do work a lot, as you will see. Not because I’m afraid I won’t get it done in time - I’m almost always ahead of my plan - but because I like it. SO. MUCH. Design is so much fun - hours are passing by really quickly in this profession. It’s so easy to get into the state of “flow” as a designer.
So how does it look like, my day?
This is my day from Monday to Saturday. On Sunday, I’m allowing myself to sleep in, and I’m spending more time in the park. Nevertheless, I’m usually in the Macpool designing at least four hours. Oh, and we have to eat more take-away food, because the canteen is closed.
Today, all of this is totally different. I’m in Berlin since noon, I don’t have an own laptop with my files and InDesign and I have NOTHING urgent to do. So I did a short bike tour to the Flughafensee (“Airport Lake”, it’s super close to the airport Tegel in the north of Berlin. And it’s nice to sit down there and read some stories in the Apartamento issue one bought two weeks ago at Facing Pages), I watched series, I played the piano a little bit.
I can’t wait to go back to Weimar and my daily schedule.