Why is so important a Digital Designer in house?

After 7 years dealing with Marketing Directors, CEO, Chairman, Graphic Designers and Developers while building a website, application or just a simple Diagram I realized the importance of having a Digital Designer or becoming one to save the day by day tasks as a project by contract or as a permanent job.

In the Visual, Graphic and Design world a Digital Designer is a combination of skills (imaging, coding, animation, illustration and branding, among others) often I found recruiters or clients asking me what I feel myself closer to; Design or Developing? And I feel something like -Do you feel like the beauty or the beast? My answer is simple, 'I am a Hybrid!'.

Developers look up for functionalities but very often forget that we 'Human Beings' are just that, humans, not a robot that simply scan a browser looking for his/her needs. We all look for the beauty and we all get really impressed when we find something that works and looks amazing. On the other hand, there are Graphic Designers that often forget that, even if we are not robots, the web is a visual experience, not just a magazine or a static reflection of words and colours. Interaction is a merge between what I click and what I expect to see in the next stage, while browsing the web, application or any other feature that require our eyes and hands to play.

What ever  in the world you feel more attracted to, it is important to research about the things you feel don't really have the knowledge about and to listen to the people that is passionate about their work.

Jonatán Mijares M.

Pop up ideas

It's so funny, when walking towards the Tate Modern on a busy Saturday and diverse thoughts start filling my head stimulating all kind of ideas, I immediately take my sketchbook out of my bag and start writing, to catch all I can from this creativity moments, so I never lose a possible creation or solution for my work.

Well, even if my friends accuse me from having schizophrenia, I cannot stop and then I realise… it’s simple, we love design as average people, but when you are part on the creation process then you are just a workaholic and this is not our fault is just… is to much beauty in the world… :-)

Honatán Mijares (Coco)
Graphic Designer
www.honadesign.com

Headphones

This past week (or weeks) we’ve been hit by this terrible cold weather. Maybe, coming from a country where there are no seasons and temperature is always between 16 and 40 degrees, we feel this weather is unbearable after a while. Every morning, struggling to get out of bed to face the new day, or better, the new freakishly cold day, and then putting on layers and layers of clothes to keep warm while we’re out there. When deciding about all these jumpers, and socks, and scarf’s, I never thought how convenient and practical might be to se huge earphones to not only listen to my music while I walk around to meet clients or try to get new ones, but also to cover my ears and prevent them from falling out due to frostbite (I know I get a little extreme about cold weather). At that moment I realised that I had a positive thought about these freezing temperatures. I couldn’t wait to go out to the streets and walk to the tune from my new headphones with my ears feeling warm, cozy, and pleased.

Jonatán and MG Hernandez.

Busy Week: Great Designs and New Staff

Hello all,

It's been a long week. Gabriela and I have been working our brains out setting up the last details of the platform, sending tweets and Facebook messages. The response has been amazing and we now have this amazing feeling that future will be bright. Honestly, we did not expect less from all of you!

Today is a special day because RMF studio became part of our Audio and Visual Centre. Mr. Mendez and Mr. Ferrara will be in charge of all our architectural design projects.

We are still looking for engineers to build our sound site, so it’s closer to our concept, but as always, this will take time to materialise.

Meanwhile, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get updates as we will be bringing new stuff every week, and of course, don't hesitate to contact us if you need any of the services we are providing at the moment.

The London Studio is not open to the public... yet! We’re working on that. However, if you like to meet us, we could arrange something outside the studio.

Our Contact:

General mail/Graphics: info@honadesign.com

Web Design: web@honadesign.com

Mobile:

+44 (0) 786 695 77 70

RMF Studio: rmfstudio@honadesign.com

Mobiles:

+44 (0) 797 564 45 56

+44 (0) 794 369 76 32

Studio in London:

+44 (0) 203 340 03 25

Well as always, all the best

Jonatán M. M. and Gabriela Hernandez

Hona Design

Every day is a new start for me, JMOMCOCO as my music representation that will be up to date soon and now HONA design. Thanks to MG that helped me a lot, this platform can be possible to come to life, were you would be able to find all kind of services, design related and when I mean design, I meant every piece of it.

You would be able to see all types of works, from Architectural design to Sound, because this will be a platform where freelancers and in-house designers will be able to show the work and costumer to find the best of it.

Keep checking us, we will keep you updated...