A new site. A new blog. I've been wanting to do this for ages, and just haven't had the time. I was undecided for a long time as to what sort of format I wanted my 'main' site to be. Slick portfolio? Blog? Shop only? In the end, I believe a blog is the best format for me. I want this to be a central point. If you want to know what I'm up to, what I've drawn lately, you come here. I am growing a bit tired of having too many outlets to update: Flickr, Vox, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter... My primary methods of sharing my drawings have been through Vox and Flickr, both terrific sites with great communities. But it always bothered me that you had to sign up with those sites in order to leave a comment. I've had many people contact me to complain about this. But that's okay, most social networking sites require this. So now I finally have a stand-alone site that's easy to update, thanks to Typepad. I'm a graphic and web designer by trade, so I could have built a more custom solution, but I didn't want to spend time digging through the code of some CMS, spending endless hours tweaking the styling, fetching plug-ins and whathaveyou. I'd rather spend my time drawing.
So poke around, bookmark the site, subscribe to the RSS feed, leave a comment, and come back soon.
Congratulations on your new digs! Finely constructed with subtle refinements. Light and airy. Reminds me of the airport at Copenhagen. I love the layout and the furnishings, but most of all the art.
Posted by: Trevor | February 09, 2009 at 09:10 PM
Lovely site Mr. Johns. Looking forward to following along here.
Posted by: K. | February 09, 2009 at 09:21 PM
Seriously. I think I'm in love. Your style quiet lovely m'dear.
Posted by: Africange | February 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Cheers to the new marcjohns.com! \o/
Posted by: Krissy | February 10, 2009 at 01:02 PM
Alright! Love the new site. Congrats!
Posted by: Michael Sippey | February 10, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Hoooooray! Looks great Marc!
Posted by: .tiff | February 10, 2009 at 03:54 PM
Damn! There's some high-quality commenters here! Thanks friends. I'm excited about the new digs. Time for me to get drawing.
Posted by: Marc Johns | February 10, 2009 at 06:05 PM
I ♥ the new look. Keep drawing, Marc!
Posted by: liz | February 10, 2009 at 07:49 PM
Looks great!
Your bad ass mayo jars drawing arrived the other day... I am looking forward to framing it and putting it up in my study. I'm a linguist by trade and find the relationships between your texts and drawings really interesting (would be a nice case study for a PhD on multimodal analysis!).
If you ever draw anymore jars, I'd love to buy an original! :) I also really liked the rocking horse!
Michele
Posted by: Michele | February 15, 2009 at 06:01 PM
Yay MarcJohns! Congrats on the new site. Nice to see you in Typepad!
Posted by: Ribsy the Whippet | February 23, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Yes, congrats as well. Good to see you on your own feet.
Posted by: Christian | February 23, 2009 at 03:11 PM
Hello! Congratulations of the launch of your new blog! As with all your work, it looks fantastic :)
Posted by: Denise | February 24, 2009 at 03:40 AM
i'm from germany and i didn't know the word "peachy". i think it's my new favourite word now.
Posted by: Verena | April 16, 2009 at 01:18 PM