as if writing a doctoral thesis wasn’t enough, i agreed to do some graphics design for a company. that is extremely bad timing since i am still recovering from my darn cold (now i tend to believe it was actually the flu) and trying to get a grip on modern concepts of identity… but i need the money. what adds to my misery is that the initial raw data of the corporate design got lost in a hard disk drive crash over a year ago. yeah, i know, always keep some backup but that failure was really a surprise. (and since then i have a regular backup plan.) so i spent hours searching various stock photo databases for the pictures i’ve used in the initial design. good news is that i found them! oh well, things can only get better.