001. a new beginning, in public

A slight change of path, embracing more passions & starting to build in public

Hi readers 👋🏼

Welcome to my ideaverse! Or, in other words, my blog.

As we very probably don’t know each other, here’s a quick introduction: I’m Núria, and I’m a 21-year-old web designer (officially), from Barcelona.

Unofficially, I also:

• design posters, calendars, zines, and anything graphic-designable

• enjoy drawing, sketching, doodling, painting, crocheting, shaping clay

• love to learn about many topics on YouTube, books and podcasts

• organize almost my whole life and work in Notion

• like scrolling through beautiful homes, pretty cakes & photography on Pinterest

This is my first post, where I dive in a change of direction for my creative journey.

Get comfy 😌

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Some context

At the beginning of 2021, I made a couple Notion templates with my very little Notion skills and published them on Gumroad. That shop is half abandoned now and makes about €10 every three months, and only thanks to affiliates 😅.

A year later, I fell in love with web design and published my website last summer to become a freelance web designer. I've had some client projects, and I'm overall pretty happy with how it has been turning out. However, I haven't been able to reach some of the goals I had set.

But I have learned 3 important things:

— If I want to grow, I need to focus on my personal brand first
— I do not want to do only web design
— I want to create a project that can help a lot of people at a time

My current website: I find it doesn’t resonate with me and my goals any more

So, what now?

I'm taking a new direction. I’m going to craft an authentic personal brand that aligns with who I am. My aim is to help more people, do more things and have more fun.

As a multi-passionate creative, I want to help people with whom I resonate, who are very passionate about what they do and want to share it: painters, writers, designers, illustrators, ceramists, small businesses… This way, I get to experience everything I’m passionate about, but within my own personal brand.

And a key aspect of that is to start building in public. Sharing the process, goals, learnings, and decisions. Basically, thinking out loud and hopefully inspire a person or two.

For that, I’m going to be focusing on two channels:

• My current Instagram, where I've already started to post again. It will be the place to casually share in a visual form: creative projects, behind the scenes, workflow, tips…

• This blog. Where I’ll expand on my thoughts and go deeper. I’ll talk about the process, what I learn, how I’m doing things, as well as interesting topics and insights. I’ll try to post weekly.

I'm so excited to start sharing this journey!

What is coming next?

• Next big thing: New website.
  It has only been a year, but when I first published my website it had different objectives. So this new direction just asks for a new website. And one that’s easy to update so that it can evolve as I create new paths.

• I’m also going to create some (free) Notion templates for creatives, multi-passionates and just anybody with a project that excites them.

Who has inspired me: resources

The main people and things that have helped me get clear, inspired and, most importantly, get started:

• Emily Wapnick → https://puttylike.com/

• Kevon Cheung → https://publiclab.co/

• Coming up roses → https://www.cominguproses.co/

• Also, everyone I follow on Instagram inspires me in one way or another

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Thank you for taking the time to read what I have to say!! 🙏🏻

Let me know: What are you passionate about? Do you have one passion or several? Are you navigating any particular phase in your (creative) journey?

I invite you to join me as I dive into this new, exciting path. No matter where you are in your own journey, you are very welcome here!