February 2010
45 posts
da fuck!?
the-kris:
If I knew writing songs with lyrics such as, “When you’re 15 and someone tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them”, could win me a Grammy for Album of the Year… I would have published my 8th grade poetry project years ago.
January 2010
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clientsfromhell:
A client once gave me some text which included a spelling error. Instead of saying “you spelled that wrong” I tried to be tactful about it. I said I wasn’t sure about the spelling so I looked it up in the dictionary and discovered that it was spelled differently. Then the client insisted that there was a typo in the dictionary and we had to go to press with the spelling...
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"Real World Design"
What does that mean anyway? Doesn’t this alternate reality design world vary? I hope I don’t crash and burn this semester. It’s going to be a long ride.
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“Mies van der Rohe once said that being good is more important than being...”
– Graphic Wit “Paul Rand: The Play Instinct” 1991
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I want to shake his hand. →
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I wouldn't mind working for these:
http://www.stoltze.com/index.html
http://www.kor.com/index.cfm
but I would LOVE to work for them: http://www.zaydmedia.com/index.html
it’s a small setback that they aren’t hiring entry level graphic designers (at the time I hope) but Tony did offer to meet with me/talk to me about the company!
next order of business: situate a paying internship.
Unbelievable 27-page Pepsi logo development →
it's not how good you are, it's how good you want...
Learn your client’s language. Use it to explain yourself. The key to success as a designer is understanding your process and why you are doing what you are doing. Have a reason for everything decision that you make. Have a reason for being a designer.
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