What music inspires you to do what you do? The DK office is home to a media server loaded with a respectable 40gb of great tunes. Just like finding the right wine to go with dinner, there is a bit of a science to getting the right music to go with each step of our work process.
Here are our highlights getting regular airtime in DK HQ.
Brendon's Back Catalogue
Brendo reckons it all comes down to what time in the day it is, how many coffees I have had and how many applications I am juggling at one time. First design of the day I have had one coffee, applications I have open are.... Entourage, Tweetdeck, Firefox and Illustrator. I am in a mellow mood and am probably branding a new business or working on a print design, the sounds would be....
- Augie March – Moo you blady choir
- Anything by Regina Spektor
- Beck – Sea change
- An oldie but a goodie – Arlo Guthrie
By Lunch time I have a few more apps open.... Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Snap and Drag, Indesign, Quark. I have also smashed another coffee by then or maybe 2. At this time of the day I like to ‘GET THE PARTY STARTED’ we will move onto something with a beat the ones that get your legs bouncing.....
- Kings Of Leon
- Modest Mouse
- The Herd
- Draght
- J5
Come 3pm and now we really pumping I am juggling 12+ apps, had more coffee and am ready for some air guitar, so ‘FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK WE SALUTE YOU’.....
- Anything by Muse but especially, Knights of Cydonia
- Stone Sour
- The Distillers
- Queens of the Stoneage
- Black Sabbath
If all went well a few logo designs would of been finished, a brochure design or 2, some web pages designed and worked on a catalogue. I probably also had to get through some quotes and 3000 phone calls. That’s it just another lazy day at the office...
Popular in the DK office... MUSE
Craig's Countdown
Site Architecture/HTML Framework
During this stage, we’re putting together the nuts and bolts of the site, and it’s like the heavy lifting/foundation building of the site, so I like to listen to something solid that I can get my teeth into. My top site set up bands are:
- Muse – ANYTHING MUSE TICKS ALL MY BOXES
- Metallica
- Freestylers
- Dizzee Rascal
- Bliss n Eso
Customised Scripting/Web app development
This part of development can require something a bit more subdued and easy to listening. Preferable something that you can listen to that doesn’t make you want to get up and jump about the studio too often. My top picks here are:
Bug fixing/Cross browser testing
This is the ironing out of the little quirky bits of a site and getting it ready for a global audience. It can be a bit of a tiresome task chasing little snippets of code around the internet, especially getting that pesky IE6 to play nice, but time goes much more smoothly on the back of these little gems.
What music gets you through the day? First 5 people that leave us a comment will win some cool DK stickers.
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