You Have To Be Careful With Eggs

Wow, cutting it quite close now aren't we?

Sorry, I have been feeling a tad scrambled lately.

So design community, are you tired of having all your eggs sitting together in that carton box?  You know, where they are free to converse and plot together to take over the world with their shameless yokes?  Well you need not worry any longer.  Now eggs come to you in solitary confinement cells.

Designed by Lindsey Sherman

Justice has been served.

In all seriousness though, I really do like these packages.  They completely embody a simple, beautiful aesthetic that is both practical and modern.  And what's more, this solution probably allows for a little more leeway in how carefully you have to treat your eggs. Which as we all know, are very vulnerable to the bottom of the grocery pile.

I take my justice over-easy, Nicole

It Is Alive

Or I am, rather. 
So it is midway through September. I had meant to resume my regular posting at the beginning of the school year but, well, it is Conestoga Graphic Design after all, and I really should have known it would take me longer than a day or two to settle in and get all my angles pointing the right way. (shameless pun-plug).

Nonetheless, full of worthless excusess, here I sit.  Back on my regular and horrible sleep cycle and able to burn some thoughts into this blog.

So lets do this thing shall we?  Nicole

Post Scriptum, 

I will be officially resuming my weekly posts as of Wednesday, September 21st.  I am hoping to do more than one post/week but lets not be too ambitious to start. This may not be MACBETH, but we don't want to risk killing you all with my overreaching ambition now do we?

Time To Despair

Never has it felt so good to be in such a state.

Modeled in mocking of the classic 'inspirational' posters that deface the walls of most office buildings, Despair Inc. www.despair.com is a website that functions with the soul purpose of de-motivating as many people as possible.  Their witty, harsh and just a little empathetic vantage point on office life provides a nice and needed escape from the mundane reality of every day tasks.  Although, optimists beware it may belittle your sunny disposition.

 

There is something here for everyone.  You can order your very own de-motivational posters, mugs, glasses, mouse-pads, t-shirts and calendars - customized to your hearts dis-content. Check it out, if nothing else it will help you forget how deathly bored you are at work right now. Just don't get caught, you could get fired.

Go to your sad place, Nicole

Joe, Average: Karen Kavett

Karen Kavett is a relatively well known youtuber.  She has done a lot of design work for youtube related projects and has done a very nice job at networking and marketing herself as a nerdfighting graphic designer through and through.  Apart from her personal vlogs she also does a lot of videos that are geared towards the design industry.  She has made videos on all kinds of topics, but her introductory videos are full of good streamlined information that can help you remember key details of the fundementals of design.  As an added bonus she is witty, personable and entertaining to watch, which makes learning about any subject more fun.  And, when you get bored with learning, you can watch some of her personal vlogs which are always entertaining and usually thought provoking.

Here are her new and really quite clever business card designs that she recently posted to her blog.

"The idea is that I can fill in the blank with whatever I am to whoever I give it to – when I go to internship interviews I can write in graphic designer, and when I go to YouTube gatherings I can write in video blogger, and when I go to Hogwarts I can write in Slytherin." - Karen Kavett

You can check her out here:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/xperpetualmotion 

Second YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/karenkavett

Blog: http://karenkavett.com/blog/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/karenkavett

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karen-Kavett/165315740154374

Market yourself as you, Nicole

When Life Gives You Lemons

 

You probably just found lemons, Nicole

Stopping To Turn

And so ends the project.  Alas, I am very happy with the product I have turned out. It is no secret, I am sure, that I love writing.  I love leaving an impression of myself, illustrated in words.  I love the words, I love the letters that form the words and I love the forms that shape the letters.  And this is me.  Never fear, invisible audience, I will not abandon my post.  There are many more a post to write and this world is a never ending story of sights and sounds and feelings that must be conveyed and thought upon.  So this is what I will continue to do, as it is what I hope I have been doing.  As the semester draws to a close I feel myself changing as a person, as a writer, as a designer, and as an observer of this tiny blue-green dot in the universe that we call 'home'.  It is so much more exciting and expansive than I could have ever imagined.

And moving forward from that point, Nicole

Joe, Average: The Readables

It is always fun to point out some everyday people who make awesome things happen.  This time I would like to point out The Readables (a.k.a Priscilla).  The Readables are the collective works of my fellow Canadian Graphic Artist/Book Worm.  Priscilla does online book reviews and lately has been using her creative side to make visual pull quotes from the Harry Potter Series.  On her tumblr account she also picks a song that best represents the book she just read, which I find to be a unique approach to the book review process.  I deeply enjoy her views on books and I think she has a lot of intelligent and thought provoking things to say. 

You can check her out here:
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/thereadables
Tumblr http://thereadables.tumblr.com/
Good Reads http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4731097-priscilla

Living life with my head stuck in a book, Nicole