First, before I start telling you the reason for the new design let me welcome you to TCL's New Design and layout!! So now onward,  let's get into a little bit of the design and the reason for the change.

So here we are 4 years later since the last update in 2014  and I felt that it was time for a makeover. The Collective Loop is a place where art, design, music, technology and more collectively loop, but that doesn't mean the design can't.  After contemplating, I decided that I wanted to change the layout to look more professional, interactive and all around still have a minimal feel. I also wanted a site where it would look amazing on portable devices and be more responsive.  I was able to find all this with the new design.

Here are some of the new changes:

• Responsive Layout for all devices 
• Clean Minimalist Design
• Font Awesome – Retina ready icons
• Responsive Sidebar
• Social Share

So tell me what you think of the new design? Look around and see all the new changes.

New TCL Design






TCL Old Design

Archive Rentals caught my eye the other day with tons of interior/exterior design inspiration that you can rent. They offer ideas and rentals for holiday party inspiration, farmhouse table rentals, and of course for the ladies the bohemian chic wedding. That is not all that they offer, however you will need to check out their site for further information.

From first inspiration to installation, our Award-Winning Design Team is ready to create your vision

The Archive Rentals site is an added aspect of this company that I quite enjoyed. I almost wanted to go on a Pinterest binge. I just can't get enough of the vintage style photography of their designs. I have a soft heart when it comes to vintage design. They also make it easy to find inspiration for furniture, lighting, accessories, wow factor and more with a nice interface to find what you're looking for. So, contact them today and get started on your next event.



Source: Photography via Archive Rentals

MenEssentials for that smooth clean shave while doing it in style. You will look great and feel awesome! MenEssentials provides a huge selection of razors, creams, shaving kits and facial products and more to meet any guys standards.

They were kind enough to send me two products to try. They sent the Merkur MK-23001 double edge safety razor and LEA Classic Shaving Cream. Let me tell you how this has changed my thought process on shaving. This takes shaving to a next level with the use of a double edge blade, which is actually cheaper than the standard razors. The Shaving Cream alone has helped smooth out my skin and leaving it looking and feeling soft compared to other shaving creams that I have tried. I don't think I could go back to the store bought razors and shaving cream after using these two products. Thanks MenEssentials!

So check out MenEssentials and explore the different brands to match your shaving/face style and start buying away. Shipping is free for any orders over $50 and for first time buyers here is a promo code for 10% off your first order "ME10PERCENT".

February 10th is known as Safer Internet Day.  In that being said Google is giving an extra 2GB of Google Drive storage to anyone who completes this security checkup by February 17th.

This checkup makes sure your account recovery information is current, asks you to review recent sign-in activity, and lets you see which apps and devices can access your account. (Which is good practice anyways). It's worth it since Google will gift you with extra storage.


The company says it’ll give qualifying Google Drive accounts the boost on February 28 and you’ll get an email confirming the change.

UPDATE: Google Apps for Work and Google Apps for Education users are not eligible for the bonus storage but should still consider taking the Security Checkup.

Source: TNW & Google

It has been about 4 years since I have worked on my last portfolio website. So I thought it was about time to redo the site on Wix.com. This time instead of being a flash based website this site is currently constructed with HTML5, which makes it a little easier to work with.

On Damion S. Portfolio Collection site I've added my portfolio works from photography, websites, TCL works and more, which will be continuously updated. It's also easy to get back and forth to TCL via the menu and I have also added a blog feed on the home page of the new site. I have also added an Etsy Shop to start offering design prints. Currently, all prints are set to $10, which is not hard on the old wallet. You will also now see a shop link on TCL to quickly get to the site.

In the next two weeks, I will be doing a giveaway for The Collective Loops #1000th post in which I will be giving away both TCL Playlist Collection Posters. So keep an eye out for that!   In the mean time be sure to check out the new site and let me know what you think?

TCL Playlist Collection - 01



TCL Playlist Collection - 02

First, before I start telling you the reason for the new design let me welcome you to TCL's new design and layout!! So now onward,  let's get into a little bit of the design and the reason for the change.

Since I created the blog back in 2009 I wanted to make it a place for me to remember awesome things. As it went on I got more into it and changed the name from Damion DJ and Producer Blog to something that matched what my blog was about. So I changed the design back in 2011 and changed the name to The Collective Loop.

So here we are 4 years later since the last update and I felt that it was time for a makeover. The Collective Loop is a place where art, design, music, technology and more collectively loop, but that doesn't mean the design can't After contemplating, I decided that I wanted to change the layout to look more professional, interactive and all around still have a minimal feel.  I was able to find all this with the new design.

So tell me what you think of the new design? Look around and see all the changes
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TCL New Design:

TCL Old Design: