News & Blog

I’ve added 4 new projects in the Work section of the site.

Yeah, I know - it has been a bit quiet lately, and with good reason.
The new year has pretty much started with a bang: a lot of new work has come Kleber’s way, Ben Wise (who freelanced for us on the kylie.com site) has joined our tribe full time and last but certainly not least: I’m getting married in a little over 2 weeks (yay!) and final preparations take up some time. February and March will be a fun and hectic mix of wedding bells and work in London and Malaysia.

So what is next? Well, without revealing anything I can say that something really interesting is afoot with Mam Tor, which if all goes as planned will rear its head in March. I’m not too involved with it, aside from supplying some logo designs; but this is one of those things that can put Mam Tor on a bigger playing field. March should also see the official announcement of a really cool project for the summer of 08 that Liz and myself are involved with . So stay tuned for news the coming weeks/months.

Happy Holidays, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

Best wishes to everyone who’s reading this. See you all in the new year.

iBlog, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

The blog formatted for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch (not really news if you’re already reading it on one of those…)

Yes, Safari works wonderful on my iPod Touch! (posted via iPod)

24SEVEN has been added to the Work section with more pages and photos

So from time to time I get email requests from all over the world asking me a ton of questions.
Usually different people tend to ask the same, so in an attempt to avoid possible dissapointment from you, dear questioner, some generic answers from me.

1. I’m a student visiting London, can I visit your studio?
No. Because I don’t have a studio. I work from home. Only friends, family and cats are allowed here.

2. I’m a student, can I intern at your company?
No. I’m not a company, helloMuller is my portfolio. I work at Kleber (which is a full time job).
Whatever work you see on this site (except Kleber work of course) is done by me alone or with Liz.

Who’s Liz?
My lovely wife.

2B. Will you consider hiring me instead?
Nope. See above.

3. So can I intern at Kleber?
That’s a tricky one. Kleber is a small company, and since 2005 we converted to what they call a “virtual company”, which means you won’t find an office to intern at. So again, no.

4. Can I work for Kleber then?
If and when we need someone, it will be announced on our site and probably on a bunch of design portals, if you keep your eyes open you won’t miss it. Besides that, no, we’re not hiring.

5. I’m a student at XXXX working on my XXXX project, can you help me?
This is one of the more popular requests. Sorry, but I will not / can not help you with your project.
I don’t have the time for that, and I’m no robot that you can task for student work.

6. You’re the subject of my project at school, can I ask you some questions?
Sure, fire them over. Keep in mind that I won’t answer “How would you solve my assignment?” questions.

7. You arrogant bastard, why don’t you reply to me?!
Because a) I get a lot of emails, and sometimes something slips through the net. b) I’m busy and I forget. c) I didn’t like your email (when you ask for something a short introduction and a please would be appreciated) d) because I like to reply properly instead of the generic “No I’m sorry, best of luck!” and therefore have no time to write a proper reply. See b.

8. Hey, I just graduated, give me a job!
See answers 1, 2, 4 and 7C.

9. Hey, I just graduated, do you know where I can get a job?
To be honest, I know as much as you probably. Yes, I know a lot of people who know people but that doesn’t equal to me knowing whats happening at their companies at any given time. If I know someone is hiring I’ll be the first to post it around. Besides that, don’t ask me because I don’t know.

10. I like your work! Let’s collaborate!
Thank you very much! But no thank you. I’m usually busy with work and my own stuff, I like to have a little life away from my desk, and I’m really, really picky when it comes to people I’ll collaborate with (yea I’m anal that way). Sorry.

So there you go.

I caved in and joined Facebook.
All is lost now.

Trees, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

Just testing the Flickr importing.

A list of places where you can find me on the interweb.

Design Portals
I’m a contributing “news author”, which means I just post links to stuff I like, at the following sites:
Pixelsurgeon, Computerlove, Nice To Meet You

Social networks
MySpace, Virb, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook, Computerlove, NTMY, CGSociety, Engine.ning, Designers Are Wankers, Comicspace