My deviantART story

so far is told fast. However, it began about a year ago, when I finally had the heart to join dA and to shyly upload some decent screenshots – like those I saw when following the dA links included in the sig of fellow Linux users’ comments. But I thought: Hey, I can do that easily myself!

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Image (1) shows a former desktop view at Xmas time with nice colorful features like that fancy prompt in an X terminal. Loading the funny wallpaper was the easiest part though. – (2) is one of my favorites, because it includes a shadowed frame, and documents the progress of top bar’s the layout.


Despite my preference of the free GNU/Linux OS, I still occasionally also used the outdated Windows XP, e.g. as a virtual machine; as I dislike the boring Explorer desktop, I tweaked it like hell as well, and mostly Linux-like. For this purpose I turned the free popular Litestep shell into action, which also got countless themes. Shot (3) shows XP running with the “Rusty” theme, one of my all time favorites – its metallic looks has a taste of Steampunk.
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Though it was at the twilight of XP, I felt the urge of manipulting its boot screen, too. Though only 16 colors are allowed, due to some restrictions it was by far not trivial to set the palettes for some good looking creations. IMHO preview (4) shows the best one. It is also the most popular deviation of mine at the moment.


Coming from typography and illustration, my submissions until now generally contain textual and graphically designed elements. And since one of my major fields of interests is East Asia and Korea in particular, they often include C(hinese)J(apanese)K(orean) characters.

I wrote a book about practical typesetting with the free typesetting system LaTeX (in German) a couple of years ago, which hasn’t been published yet. This system is mainly aimed at academic users, and totally different from ordinary office programs. Hence many of the LaTeX-generated deviations in my “Typodrome” gallery contain extensive descriptions and link lists. – The following shots (5) to (7)  demonstrate the multilingual capabilities:
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This project is almost complete now. And meanwhile I even made it into webdesign. – However, I am more thirsty now for arts, traditional as well as digital, painting, photography, collage and more. And I just can’t wait to realize my visions!