More Posters (Correction)

Chris who posted on this was right. I totally forgot to transfer these pictures to RGB format. The Posters above are how they originally looked for the client. the pictures below are an affect of having the posters in CMYK. I might have to do a post about channels and formatting (for myself). Good job Chris!




Here are two posters I recently put together for a Band. Strange thing though, when I up loaded them to blogger the jpeg's changed color. Originally the top one had a dark green color background and the red was dark blue and the second one had a blue background. Just wondering if anyone else has had color shifting like that when using jpegs. Discuss and reply.

Employee Posters

Does your company hold a special events for it's employees? If so, it is a great opportunity to show off some of your creativity without the confines of the boss restricting you. Let free those creative juices flow by doing a little work after work and show how creative you can be if you were given a little designer leeway. The posters above are some examples of funny posters I have done for different employees farewell and wedding showers. For example the center poster was for our former writer who was moving to Kentucky and she was a redhead. If you brainstorm you can find some characteristics of your fellow employees that you can illustrate in a witty way. Have fun!

Idea Recycling?

So you have a good idea for a client on a freelance project. They shoot that idea down for whatever reason. The question is can it be recycled… should it be? I mean a good idea is a good idea, right? We'll I guess I am asking all you designers out there if this is kosher. I know that rarely good design comes out this way [recycling]. But in this case of the top design migrating the idea to the design below it. Does it work. The first design was for a documentary video on a organization in Botswana, Africa. The bottom design is for a fundraising effort for Ethiopia. Ironically the hands embracing a map seems to work for both. Let me know you thoughts/concerns.

America by design

So I'm reading this book called Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh and it is spot on when giving info about how bad the Iraq war is going and also how bad it has been since 9/11. I know you may be thinking "what does this have to do with design?" Well the book talks about how people who think they know what is best in a certain arena (in this case intelligence on terrorism via Donald Rumsfeld) they come into power and second guess experts and agencies who have been in the field doing the work for decades (FBI/CIA). Lets just say things get messed up beyond measure and we have the powers that be pointing fingers and claiming deniability. What I'm talking about here is SELFISH PRIDE—a effect of human frailty. Its a very ugly thing when we have control over something we know little about and we spin our agenda on what we think it should be, but sadly is not. I am not immune to this. But I do recognize I do this and that is, at the very least, what we all should do.

Personal Example: I got out of college thinking I had a good idea of what web design is—basically all flash, which is what my instructors taught me. These are the same instructors who worked nearly they're whole life in print design not web. So I get my first job and get into an argument with our web guy who shows me the world of HTML & CSS and how google driving traffic to your site is so much more important. |BLINK!| the light goes off in my head and I see a whole new perspective and I have a new respect for web programmers. The reason for this? —I listened (skeptically at first) and gained a new perspective from someone who has been doing this for longer and really knows more than me. We still debate how a web site should look overall, but that's okay, we just find a compromise because there is respect for one another.

We ALL need to ask questions and listen and trust that those who do the work really know what they are doing. And when things fail we need to listen, explore, investigate where they REALLY went wrong and work together to rectify the situation.

I was getting depressed think about all this and how things need to change when I actually heard our national play on my itunes radio. It got me to thinking about how we really all are in this together—no matter how hard-headed any of us get (including politicians) , when it looks like this country is failing, we are all in this together—we always need to remember that. As our forefathers said: "God bless America, our home, sweet home."