Seriously, magazine publishers. Your own specs should not be so hard to provide ( Read more... )

Is there anybody still out there?

Yes I know everybody bailed to Facebook, Pntrest, Tumblr and *cringe* Twitter... or has everybody thrown in the towel and quit design yet?

Anyway, speaking of fecking Facebook. I just blocked all posts to my timeline from Fiverr. "Hide all from Fiverr" Oh YES PLEASE. [*CLICK*] You know, one of those online services ( Read more... )

Since our job market has taken a severe hit recently I took it upon myself to go "freelance". I did these Menus a client and right off the bat i knew this was a horrible idea. "You know Michael I am a bit of a graphic artist myself" he told me. "I want my Menus to look like this !" he holds up the most god awful layout i ever saw in my life. The ( Read more... )

LAUGH OF THE WEEK - One of the print projects I am working on is a 2012 Tax Guide for a legal accounting firm. I was forced to get a software upgrade and the new computer to run Creative Suite 5.5 to work on this project. Got the "You should upgrade your software, thank you for playing" error message in InDesign - saw that coming, yep.

Anyway, as is ( Read more... )

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/army-briefing-comic-sans/

Hi there! I just thought I'd let everyone know that Chloe Eudaly over at Reading Frenzy is raising funds for a brand new issue of the fantastically popular zine Crap Hound which has been a huge hit with graphic designers (with a very talented such one being its creator), and issue 8 is a fantastically rich resource featuring pure imagery on the ( Read more... )

http://www.salon.com/life/imprint/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/06/08/declining_clients_imprint

This sort of thing comes up to raise the eyebrow ( Read more... )

 Though you would appreciate this story from the Telegraph. What to show next time a client asks to "just google it".

Is Tom Ford selling used cars?
Second-hand car salesman Dale Wurfel's tongue-in-cheek advert would have you think so, but Tom Ford is unlikely to see the funny side.
http://tgr.ph/dZBQDU

Sheesh. THANKS, Nike.

In the graphic resources for the software package "Logo Design Studio" ... there is a folder "Swoosh" - with A HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR different "swoosh" graphics. *cringe*

But to give them a fair shake, there are 49 in "Balls", another 41 in "Spheres", 235 in "Shapes", 84 in "Things" Things?.... so I suppose it comes ( Read more... )