Design Today
A blog & portfolio site for Mustafa Kurtuldu, a Web & Graphic Designer

New URL shortener just for ME!!!

May 4th 2011 in Misc

Ok it sounds geeky I know but since bit.ly have allowed a simple way to do this, lot of companies have stated a trend (pep.si, yhoo.it, 4sq.com, cs.pn) of having your own short URLS. So I got excited and created my own – http://mustafa.im/90UURD (ok not that short but it still makes me smile :) .

Its very simple to do just sign up for a bit.ly pro account and hock up your own domain :)


‘Söz Bizde / We Have The Voice’ is a documentary focused on Turkish young people who are invisible to the policy and decision makers in Britain. I was lucky enough to be asked to give my views on citizenship, nationality & about Turkish-British identity.

Heres the trailer :)

Recently read a thought provoking article called “The effects of themed Lipsum on design” by Andrew Fox where he wrote that Loren Ipsum had a negative impact on design and we as designers should demand most of the content upfront, arguing;

“How can you design a message without knowing what the message is?”

Now although I agree with him in principle in practice this can cause a lot of issues. Putting your foot down might work if you’re a freelancer but if you’re in an agency or an internal design team you probably won’t have that freedom.