Burnout. The mortal enemy of anybody desirous of getting things done. When you’re like me, burnout is easy to fall prey to; in the world of graphic design, particularly web design, where it seems that everyday is born a new crucial method or technique for creating CSS, markup or jQuery, my attention can drift. I’ll spend hours lost in a world of words like Ruby, Compass, SASS, semantic markup, grid, etc… And one of the best ways to combat burnout is to focus.

I find that certain practices help me refocus. Doing something unrelated, quick and dirty, helps me remember that, ultimately, all it’s about is creating. A thoughtful design, a piece of well crafted code, a useful jQuery script. Regardless of ones approach, it’s about creating something good, not creating something within the framework of fashionable tools.

One of the easiest ways, I find, to bring myself back to attention is to create wallpapers for my computer. Something of zero consequence, that requires only the intuitive opinion of one person. Myself.

So, I feel like posting some of my recent wallpapers. Most are sized for a 13″ Macbook Pro (1280×800), but there’s a few others in the mix.