8 posts tagged “design”
I only know that I kind of dig it:
The KOR water bottle. Super designed, super saucy, super good for the earth!
It's also $30.
But I think I need it.
No, I take that back. I know I need it. Holler!
(Also, considering I was probably going to drop the same amount on a SIGG water bottle, I really can't consider this that crazy. Right? Right.)
Taken from the How blog:
Re-releases of all the James Bond novels with new retro-styled illustrations by Michael Gillette. I don't even want to read them, I just want to hang them all up on my wall in a row.
And then, while I was looking at the pictures of the book covers at Kitsune Noir, I happened upon this great entry,
Advice to baby photographers, not photographers of babies written by photographer Clayton Cubitt.
Excerpt:
If possible, don’t take a picture of anything right away. Give yourself time to just experience. You need to do this to understand what you’re photographing. If it’s a landscape, walk around and soak up the sun, smell the dirt. If it’s fashion, feel the textures, the colors. If it’s a portrait, talk to the human in front of you and try to understand what’s in their head. If it’s combat reportage, get behind the video guy, he’s a good shield.
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What makes up a style? Find a photographer you really admire and rip him off mercilessly.Consider it a remote apprenticeship. This is the history of culture. One day you’ll accidentally start doing original work, and then some young punk will start ripping you off. And the cycle of life is continued…
FINALLY!
It looks right in Safari and Firefox on my Mac, but could you PC folks out there (especially those of you still using IE) do me a favor and check to see if anything's wonky while you're looking around? I'd really appreciate it. I'm basically div-tarded, so this is my first time using CSS for layout (and even then I had to resort to those dreaded tables just because I couldn't figure out how to do certain things).
I picked the domain because people always seem to have trouble pronouncing my last name. "Del Ro" is the shortened version I sometimes tell people to make their lives easier. Besides, $5 says that if I had used my full last name (or, good lord, my full name) that people would get 404's trying to remember how it was spelled. I wanted "delro.com" but someone's using that to point to a Geocities page. For the love of...
The quotation marks that float in the layout are a reference to pronunciation and my love of typography. Smart quotes are your friends! I could probably collapse a lung talking about why I did certain things with the design, but I'll spare you guys (unless you really want to know).
Now that that's done, I get to... put together my physical portfolio!
Those of you that just have to update résumé's when you look for a new job should be grateful, I tell you, grateful!
Sometimes I wonder, is my work beautiful because I'm beautiful?
I imagine that this is a huge production of a promo site for Digital Kitchen, a "marketing content partner" (according to their site). Regardless, Designer // Slash // Model is hilarious. It takes all the stereotypes of "creatives," knocks the snobbery, ridiculousness and stunning good looks up a thousand notches and throws them into an awesome site of models acting as designers who will change the "wolrd."
Dear Schnauss, what separates you from the rest? - Erica in Rome
Talent separates the designer slash models from the button-pusher slash models. You can have incredible bone structure and skin and know every piece of software and plug-in on the planet but if you don't "get it" viscerally you may as well be a crane operator slash model.
I fucking love it. Tomorrow I will wear all black and not smile all day just to honor this comedic genius of Designer // Slash // Model. I wish I could say that all design–excuse me, artists have razor sharp cheekbones, look awesome in slinky black dresses and can rock 80s hair better than you did in the 80s like these guys do. You know, the department you're hesitant to walk by because you know they're all a bunch of hipsters in skinny jeans listening to indie rock at not-work-appropriate levels? But really, we're more likely to be the group that comes into work late, stays 3 hours over, wears kooky t-shirts with obscure typography references on them with bags under our eyes and too much caffeine running through our veins.
*Saul Bass is one of the greatest Graphic Designers of the 20th century and Heidi Klum looks really really good in her underwear.
(No, my portfolio isn't done yet. D'oh!)
Most designers will tell you that the hardest client to work for is yourself. And, after weeks of waffling over the design of my portfolio site, I'm determined to finish it this weekend. It'll probably leave me as nothing but a mindless zombie come Monday morning, but what are they going to do... fire me? HA.
Are you ready, weekend, because you're about to get worked, honey! *two snaps*
Feel free to harass me incessantly should I not post a link to said portfolio site on Monday.
This song accurately describes life as a Graphic Designer. I encourage all of you to give it a listen, because really, truer words were never spoken when the vocalist of Burn Back sang,
I don't wanna tell you how to do you job /
But can't you make the logo bigger?
It has invaded my MySpace and is now my default ringtone.
I chuckle whenever I listen to this, then I cry a little.
I'm sitting here, mentally psyching myself up to order a $69 track jacket with a relatively obscure term stitched on the front. Part of me is saying, "YEAH, that jacket is sweet!" and the other part is saying, "Damn, it's a $70 fleece jacket with some letters stitched on."
Freakin' nerds.
However, I think to complete this ensemble, I'll need to seriously consider buying this shirt to wear underneath. Oh, snap!
