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It's getting crowded in here
- I'll show myself the door...neue75_bold
- < I hear Saskatchewan is emptycanuck
- Mimio0
"Newstoday.com is now QBN.com. Please update your bookmark."
- www.NewsYesterday.co…...********
- < Fail.
http://www.NewsYeste…
^ Pass.********
- www.NewsYesterday.co…...
- Spookytim0
Design and illustration seemed to be converging throughout 2006 and 2007, due in part to the increased flexibility given to designers who were previously to be found only in page layout apps and dabbling lightly in a vector package to create a logo design. During that perceived convergence it became difficult to know if one was a designer, or an illustrator. I think this was to the detriment of both disciplines in hindesight. Design became florid, unstructured, overly concerned with decoration and frivolous detail. Illustrators became too generic, too computerised, and far removed from the process of making marks with real meaning.
Suddenly now though, as I peruse the online portfolios of various designers and illustrators, its seems really obvious once more that designers are designers... restraint and understatement are their watchwords, and illustrators are once more illustrators, with personality and expression as their watchwords.
Designers: Rigour, Modernism
Illustrators: Fluidity, VernacularismDesigners: Black, Shiney
Illustrators: Taupe, MuckyDesigners: Severe, Authoritarian
Illustrators: Halfwitted, DissentingDesigners: Uniform, Oppresive
Illustratiors: Tramps, DepressedDesigners: Purists, Perfectionist
Illustrators: Ramblists, ScatterbrainsDesigners: Power, Success
Illustrators: Flowers, Lying Down.Designers: Kraftwerk, Brian Eno
Illustrators: The Levellers, Digereedoos.etc.
- such a lazy and shallow way to look at the world._salisae_
- WHAAAAT? I was just dicking around. I am the latter by the way, an illustrator. Do you have...Spookytim
- ... a CRUSH on me Salisae? Huh? do ya? DOO YA?
HUH???Spookytim - are you also of the mind that dogs with pointed ears are mean and dogs with rounded ears are nice?_salisae_
- i meant floppy .. not rounded. floppy long book-markish ears_salisae_
- whoa********
- 7point340
over thinking my portfolio, but at the same time i don't think i am. i want it to be professional and display the work in a accesible way, but i also want it to pop a bit, to stand out and be really visual. having a hell of a time. i'm really bad at minimalism. i don't want it to look like a blog
- *in AN accessible way7point34
- Thats the trouble with the current parameters of good design, they are a hair's width from 'anodyne and uninteresting'... hmmmm...Spookytim
- hmmmmmmmm....Spookytim
- .... mmmmmmmmhSpookytim
- Dig through the "links" area at http://www.miniml.co…. That'll get your head in the right place.blaw
- Well make sue you post it here for a crit when you're done.canuck
- indexhibit.********
- http://jaline.ca
I was sick of trying to come up with a new design, so I just went with that.Jaline
- 7point340
cougar that works at my office was commenting on my earrings this morning in the elevator.
- good or bad?Jaline
- kinda funny. she's not bad for a cougar. and she sounded like a schoolgirl, giggling about plugs7point34
- she just wanted to know how big i intended to stretch the plugs. big smile on her face. i guess she thought it was cool7point34
- i told her i hadn't stretched them in 3 or 4 years7point34
- she was probably looking for a stretching though7point34
- Don't listen to the wet blankets in HR. Flirting makes work a nicer place to be.blaw
- when you said, "plugs", I thought you were talking about something else...Jaline
- in my bummer? gross, Jaline. gross7point34
- Fariska0
I've the insane need to smash the head of my dumb brainless flatmate against a wall, pour gasoline on it, set on fire and light a cigarette with that flame.
- Suffocate & bludgeonlocustsloth
- Nah, she has to be consciousFariska
- sorry it has come to thiscanuck
- It's just today reaction. Later on i'll just keep ignoring her and her pointless bullshitFariska
- lighter fluid + an old timer + ropes + an alibi
very important********
- canuck0
Zedvox ?
LOL Crazies
- zardoz?7point34
- Thats Aashim for sure********
- Yea, I saw this a few days ago. What a fucking asshat. I'd either do one of two things:********
- 1. Get out of his way and just pull over. I don't need to be anywhere near a future death.********
- 2. Sneak my way up in front of him and either let him run into me, or get to the side and let him drift into me.********
- That plan would only fail if you can't sue a dead man. But I'd fucking sue his family, or just let the court let me kick his first born.********
- born.********
- ********0
before we left I emailed Mark Bittman to ask if he'd tried this restaurant called "wicked Oyster" in wellfleet this year. We've been passing it for years but never gave it a second thought because the names was so stupid. Last year after we got back there was a column in the Times in which Bittman said he'd had one of his best meals of the year there. But I figured its a year later, who knows if the chef is still there. In my letter I mentioned that we had heard he'd once stayed in the same cottage we were going to. Bittman never emailed me back. No surprise there--he must get millions of them. 2 nights ago we were eating fried clams at Mac's shack overlooking wellfleet harbor and who do we see but Mark Bittmann. My wife went up to him and asked if he'd been to Wicked Oyster yet this year and he said no, have you? He said he mostly cooks for himself and rarely eats out.
- this story is incredibly boring********
- Sublime.canuck
- needs more explosions, a narwhal fencing duel and a supnado7point34
- or just hit the "jazz it up" button7point34
- Throw in some expletives, sexually aggressive swear words are like jerk seasoning to anecdotes.Spookytim
- I hope one day I become as cultured as Rand. I'm coming to Philly AUG 8/9/10.********
- Though it is to be totally uncultured drink all day and tail gate for the Pirates/Phillies Series, haha.********
- the mrs, who has the knowledge, finds it easy to walk up to a recognized stranger and engage him: beautiful********
- he mostly cooks for himself and rarely eats out. You should invite him to Wicked oyster********
- LOL********
- I should add that I emailed him at my wife's behest; she believed he might answer, I didn't********
- I wager he's bored.********
- this story is incredibly boring
- Spookytim0
I think _Salisae_ has developed a crush on me.
- Watch out, I get the impression she is quite feistycreative-
- she and Jaline once competed in a KY wrestling match7point34
- what?
it's just what i heard7point34 - by "heard" i mean "made up on the internet"7point34
- spooky spook spook spookster spook spook spooky spook spookJaline
- Where's the Youtube link for that, 7Point34?locustsloth
- Jaline0
Time for lunch. I walked around downtown to buy a few things and planned on going further downtown to buy lunch (at a different place, for once) but forgot my bus pass in the office :(
So I had to walk all the way back (it's hot outside), and then now I'm going to head out again. I CAN DO THIS.
- ********0
5km : 22mins
- Is that good?canuck
- my best so far. dunno if its 'good'
good is relative******** - It's not bad. I'm doing one in September I think and I'm trying to get it at like 19-20.********
- I haven't run in forever though, I'd like to get a solid 18 that's my goal I guess for end of year.********
- That's like 3, 6 minute miles which isn't really that fast I think.********
- _salisae_0
what about designers who are really talented with illustration? where do they fall into your list of types?
- _Salisae_, its not a list. I was idly typing away, using the Blog thread like a Blog. I was bored. I am an illustrator...Spookytim
- To answer your question, it would be entirely up to them where they positioned themselves, would it not?Spookytim
- yesterday you said i wouldn't enjoy the music in slick LA .. i just wonder if you compartmentalize everything._salisae_
- soft penis********
- say it ain't so, franky********
- LOL@ "Soft Penis"... How completely random can things be??Spookytim
- hedge0
This bear market is OVER baby! Was I right about getting into equities or what?
- ********0
Good fucking Lord. I already wrote out a plan for a way for the community to deal with these fucking nitwits, but now I'm actually going to see if I can take it a step further and just offer to code the fucking thing.
- graham0
I've been at work too long. I just went to network places to check if my washing machine had finished.
- klipklap0
today is going by so slow. I really want to to productive... but i cant make myself. I just want to go outside.
- ********0
http://www.apple.com/trailers/so…
WAAAAAAAAALT!
- Poor Harold. He will forever be Michael i my eyes. And how about the "Felon" voiceover at the end. Top notch!locustsloth
- Greedo0
not to throw further fuel on a moot point, but i think the fact that hedge hasn't chimed in on 'best restaurant in ny' is pretty much dead solid proof that he's fake... i can almost hear him googling now...
- Jaline0
I didn't want to post in the Jesse thread but I couldn't help myself. I have a headache and it's been a shitty day in general. Oh well, walking around forever and forever isn't that bad. Good exercise.