Pre-album artwork for Dhaniah's band, My Writes. They play indie pop although I think their new album It's Okay, I'm With The Band, explores different styles quite nicely. The five people who read this blog! Check them out here!

Final thing:

#EDIT: On another note, how annoying is it that all the cool boys are taken?

#EDIT: Also, they need to invent a function that allows you to retract an sms from being sent out because you were only half-thinking (although the sentiments were genuine) and it was too late when you realize, oh fuck maybe that wasn't very appropriate. Resulting in an sms exchange that was awkward to the max which personally, made it ridiculous and hilarious but in all probability, I don't think the other person found it that way.

Lately, I've also been thinking about how I'm so limited/narrow in my interest. Which is design, obviously. Its just that I've been meeting new people and they're into this, and also this and this and what would I say? I'm really into graphic design.

What, that's it? Although I do love EVERYTHING about design. I love the sensitive treatment of typography, especially in recent issues of Vanity Fair.
And also in letterpress typography.

This one I found at Oh So Beautiful, a design blog I found today with a great focus on all things paper and beautiful.

And packaging design, motion graphics and the crafting of intent that comes with advertising and branding. I wish I was really good at what I do though. There are amazing people out there and I think more than just to have a brilliant and clever idea, the other thing to scour for is recognition. Which is more than talent and skill, sometimes its just plain luck and connections.

Wow funny mousse birthday cake I had earlier is doing things to my digestive system now at 4:41 A.M. Selective and sporadic lactose intolerance, YOU SUCK.

another list from a facebook group :D

You know you're a graphic designer when...

1. You have bags under your eyes so big you'd have to check them in at Heathrow Airport
   
2. You watch the superbowl just for the commercials 
   
3. You can spot bad typography from 100 yds away
   
4. You are pro-facebook because 95% of the myspace accounts burn your retinas
   
5. You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes
   
6. You are completely immune to subliminal advertising
   
7. You look upon a well-designed project with either: sympathy OR extreme jealousy 
8. Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse
   
9. You tell stories of exacto-knife inflicted wounds with grizzled sort of pride
   
10. You practically take caffeine intravenously 
    
11. You have an appreciation for everything unique
    
12. You've been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit. You find yourself overcome by Deathlust.
    
13. "You find your pulse increase at the sight of a lovely ligature, glasses steam up when an unusually elegant arm, leg, or tail comes in view, and a well-kerned paragraph is apt to make you break into a sweat with excitement."
    
14. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you buy a CD or DVD for the artwork, even if you have no idea what the actual music or film is like. (even worse, you don't actually watch or listen to it, just stare at it for hours and hug it in adoration)
15. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you look at the clock and see it's about midnight and think 'I'll go to bed now'... and you actually go to bed about 2-3am
    
16. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you need someone else to point out that you're sitting in a room in front of the computer with all the lights off, and haven't noticed
    
17. ...when you know what "kerning" is and you really, really like it.
    
18. ... when you wear two [ke] [rn] pins on your bag, and only you know what the mean. To others its probably a band of sorts.."
    
19. Forget the boy-wonder and the man of steel; your heroes have names like 'Tibor Kalman', 'Stefan Sagmeister', 'Paul Rand', and 'Paula Scher'.
    
20. You don't wear black to look cool, you wear it to hide the gauche.
    
21. You have a thing for chairs. You don't know why.
    
22. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
    
23. You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under. 
    
24. You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
    
25. Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
    
26. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
    
27. You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
    
28. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn't come.
29. You're up 'til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
    
30. The hottest dream you ever had was "Trace contour... Find Edges... Pinch... Extrude... Smudge Stick... Motion Blur.... Sprayed Strokes..."
    
31. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
    
32. Looking at a menu make you go "hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic" rather than "mmmm, lunch!"
    
33. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
    
34. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
    
35. Kerning and leading on your shopping list actually matters to you, and you don't see a problem with that.
    
36. You know that "bleeding" doesn't hurt.
37. When you know the difference between fuchsia, magenta, and maroon.
    
38. You Know You're a Graphic Designer When deciding on the right crop doesn't involve a choice between corn or wheat.
    
39. You've considered naming your children things like 'Kern', 'Pica', 'Bézier', and 'Serif'.
    
40. You can understand everything on this list.
    

I need to sleep. My skin looks like shit. Soon I will look like him!

Made this collage for typography class, which eh, I'm quite okay with la. Not really to my taste, but people seem to like it.





































Much prefer the original picture.