I have fairly specific auditory requirements to accompany my design time. I’ve never been able to work with lyrical music, so I constrain myself to acoustic music. To further narrow it down I swing between the alt-instrumental post-rock noodlings of artists such as Tristeza, Tortoise, Japancakes, The Letter E, Saxon Shore and Lanterna, and the more ambient end of the spectrum offered by Labradford, Pan*American, Aix Em Klemm, Hammock, Harold Budd, and Robin Guthrie.
I’m just discovering a new sub-genre of both these which I can only describe as post-dance folk-electro, represented by the likes of the excellent Lymbyc Systym.
Click here to check out my extensive library on Last.fm, or here for my Pandora profile.
Do you design? What do you listen to?
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I'm a Bournemouth-based Freelance Graphic and Web Designer with six years industry and more than eleven years personal experience in all aspects of digital design and new media.
I have a broad range of experience covering web design (custom cms theme design for Joomla, Wordpress & Drupal), design for print (letterheads, business cards, logos etc) and new media (banner ads, flash animation, interactive info portals). I believe that a design is only as good as it is usable, and prioritise the latest accessibility standards in all my online work.
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Dan says:
Toby, you have some good music suggestions up here. I notice a couple of common denominators in my library to yours. I hope that you have heard of Helios – you’ll love him if not.
Dan
Toby says:
Thanks Dan, I have heard of him actually, some good stuff out there on Spotify and Last.fm. Suppose I should go out and buy something really!