dirtydandydesign

Guillaume's drafts and thoughts.

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Early morning quick scribble: a Bolivian farmer – sketched digitally (photoshop / wacom).

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Tried another style for Easter – Going back to my #wacom at my new home in Austria. 

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Export heavy calendars (.ics more than 1 MB) to Google calendar

For those of you who are switching between projects, you may have to give up your Google Apps (G Suite) account. Beside migrating your emails (which is relatively easy), you will probably want to move your calendar as well.

In theory, all you have to do is export your old calendar and import it in the new one. It becomes challenging if you’ve been using your calendar heavily (or let’s say more than two years). The exported file can be up to few MB. The issue is that Google does not accept import of more than 1 MB. In my case, my calendar was 6 MB and I was getting the following error: “Request Entity Too Large Error 413” – even after switching browsers and changing my ports. Thanks Obama.

Here is a quick tutorial to split the .ics in order to upload a file of 1.000 bytes maximum. First of all, export your old calendar.

Then duplicate the downloaded .ics file and rename the copy “1.ics”. Open it with any text editor and find out where the string of events is starting. The first block of your text file are the settings of your calendar (timezone, date format etc). The events always start with BEGIN:VEVENT and ends with END:VEVENT. The calendar itself starts with BEGIN:VCALENDAR and ends with END:VCALENDAR.

What you need to do is pick out the quantity of data of less than ≈1 MB. So let’s say your calendar is 5MB, try to select about 20% of the events. Delete the rest of the file (until the last END:VEVENT), keep the last line (END:VCALENDAR) and save. Double check that your file is less than 1 MB and start again with duplicating the main file, rename it to 2.ics, delete the part you already saved under 1.ics and select 20% of the text file. Delete the rest until the last line.

It’s a bit a pain but in 10 minutes you will theoretically have a few .ics files under 1 MB. Be sure to keep the calendar infos at the beginning, to keep the event structure (BEGIN:VCALENDAR and END:VCALENDAR) and to include the last line (ND:VCALENDAR).

Once this is done, go to your new calendar. Click on settings > calendar > tasks > import calendar. 

Select your file, wait a few minutes and reiterate for each chunk of your old calendar. Et voila, l’affaire est faite. 

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Back to Europe after an amazing time in Chile. I'll never be able to express my gratitude enough to the people I've met in LatAm. We had the pleasure of working alongside the awesome VIRTŪ & TTANTI teams in Santiago: Angel, Felipe, Sarah, Nate & the startups from Magma Partners and of course, the Start-Up Chile program. We've secured long-lasting partners and friends in South America and the least I can say is that I will miss the people and the wine of this country, hueon! (Not the food, though. Nope. Not the food.)

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LUDORISTA, a passion-driven barista based in Berlin (and friend of mine) asked me to work on his branding and make some business cards. Helvetica Neue all the way baby.

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VIRTŪ x StartUp Chile

Super proud to have been accepted to Start-Up Chile! Out of 1.900 start-ups, less than 100 have been selected to the attend one of the best incubators Chile’s. It seems we will stay in Latin America a bit longer.

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I moved with Patrizia to Santiago de Chile beginning of March, to explore the Lat Am start-up ecosystem, investigate production community for VIRTŪ and learn Spanish. It has its perks.

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I tried to work a bit on faces. Now I used it as a current mood generator. 

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I made a quick illustration for the online magazine of my two marvellous ex-colleagues Max & Lars. It’s all about evil and stuff, have a look here.

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The 1st of March, I will move to Chile for the next 3 months to develop VIRTŪ shared sense in Lat Am and, of course, discover a new culture.  And to celebrate, I created my first GIF. Ever.

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Radical changes.

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Success!

We made it! 100% funded. A big thank you to each and every one of you for your pledges, support and dedication. 725 backers, friends, relatives, start-ups, blogs, magazines and organisation made the beginning of this adventure possible. You just rock.

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Now live on Kickstarter! My very first crowdfunding campaign, how exciting! Our aim is to establish a first production line that is 100% sustainable and 100% transparent, starting with the Dominican Republic. Please share the word, and better, back us if you like our project!  PLEDGE NOW!

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Tchüss, The European!

This is a conflicted moment in my professional life. Sad to leave The European and its amazing team after two fruitful years and super excited to officially start my roll in a vibrant Startup with a mission close to my heart: The ethical fashion label VIRTŪ shared sense that aim to solve the unaccounted social inequality in the clothing industry around the world through beautiful-high quality garments. Join me in bringing opportunities to those who never had any. 

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Quick illustration during my lunch break of a dude I crossed path on the way to work this morning. He had the attitude – or the arrogance – of a dandy, I had to sketch him. 

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Something Different.

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2nd exit for The European

As my grandpa used to say, “An exit a year keeps the lawyer busy”. After several weeks of negotiation The European has been acquired by the Weimer Media Group. Mr. Förtsch and Börsenmedien AG decided to cede the magazine to Mr. Weimer and Weimer Media Group.

I'm convinced The European has found the ideal partner to facilitate its expansion and am proud to have played a part in its ongoing story.  The illustration from akyanyme for The Hundert is quite hilarious I must say. Read more (in German): Handelsblatt  Meedia  Horizont