Ugh. Seriously.
Life is busy, so writing takes a back seat for now. I did, however, write an article professionally for the agency I work for, it’s posted at their blog. Check it out: http://www.borshoff.biz/blog/2009/07/hitting-the-target-at-least-for-now/
Design Life: #whyisketchlogos Brand New logos sketching underconsideration
by Josh
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Almost Famous
So, a while ago, UnderConsideration posed a question: why do you sketch logos. They allowed users to respond at the Brand New blog website or on Twitter using the hashtag #whyisketchlogos. Well, I decided to put in something… amusing: ” The reason #whyisketchlogos is because it would be really awkward to spend hours illustrating it to see that it looked like genitals.”
It seems like a fairly common occurence (read: it happens to all designers) that you take a lot of pride in something you’ve done only to find out from a colleague that it looks like a phallus. It seemed like a really good reason, and I guess they agreed. It seems that the purpose of the question was to produce a new product, and my quote was one of the ones chosen. I’ve now been temporarily immortilized in the pages of the awesome, brand new Brand New logo sketching book:
It’s a pretty stellar book at that. Pocket-sized. Wonderfully textural covering. Smooth pages. Nice typography. This is one of those extremely rare places where design and life meet in a very awesome way.
They Came Out of Nowhere, Officer! I Swear!
Shannon said this wasn’t based in truth, like most of the other comics. I corrected her. I never claimed this happened, just that I’m neurotic enough to plan for it.
It’s been a while…
As you may have noticed if you come to the site on occassion, it’s been a while since I’ve last contributed. While I could just as easily attribute this to a lack of material, there have been a few things going on in the real world. First off, I’ve now Made a Mrs. Seriously. I’m pretty sure she still has no idea what she’s in for over the next lifetime (although she does occasionally come here and see me make a fool of myself with things like the banana smack…) Mrs. Seriously and I also made a trip to the Hawaiian islands over the last week as well, so I’ve been disconnected for about ten days now. This may sound like a lot, but I’ve realized a few things:
• When you’ve been offline for a while, you realize how much you don’t miss it. I got home, and my wife went to check facebook. I didn’t really feel a compulsion to check it (except to see wedding photos friends posted over her shoulder) Twitter? Nope. Hassle free life. Relevantmag? Nope. Love the people, but didn’t feel that anything was missing.
• Temperatures, while at the same degree are completely relative. It was very hot for about a week last month. Up around 80, and extremely muggy. I hated every minute. In Hawaii, however, 80 feels pretty darn good. Between the low humidity and cool ocean breezes, the mid 80 area was rather nice.
• Stuff happens in the world, and without TV I don’t care. Swine Flu? What’s that? I had no idea anything actually happened outside of my stateroom/the beach/jungles. The “real” world didn’t exist, only the fantasy one in which I… actually lived. Things don’t seem to matter nearly as much without the alarmists on the news. I did see the president’s WHC dinner highlights after getting back though, and I have to admit that some parts were pretty funny, especially Wanda Sykes saying Sean Hannity could be tortured with a middle seat in coach.
• You forget how much work you have on your plate when you can’t do any of it for a week. I’ve only today realized just how much was on my plate and how little of it I can do readily. Yikes!
So there we have it. MakeSeriously is a jumble right now, but hopefully over the next couple of weeks it will get back in regular working order. If things clear up, some work may creep onto the portfolio page, and maybe we’ll try to make it a bit more exciting on the website. Tiny steps for now, but stay in touch.