Dots
Hey, this might resemble something …
Only 1024×768. Oops.
Regarding Mad Men
I don’t have cable, but I’ve recently taken to watching Mad Men (entering season 3) and I’m loving it! Some of my favourite bits of the show centre around client interaction. I realize it’s a rather insignificant aspect of the show’s plot, but some of the client situations are so relatable that it makes my knees buckle. Working in an industry where meeting client needs are paramount I’m aware that from time-to-time a crazy is going to come along. However, when going through a bout of client-hell it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the industry having the same problem. That’s when those scenes in Mad Men come along and let me know that I’m not alone out there.
In the words of the wise George Bluth Senior: Never promise crazy a baby.
Subpixels
I’d like to point out that I loathe about Photoshop. When creating a line shape layer (or path) using Photoshop’s line tool, there is no option to snap to whole pixels. Curse you, subpixels. Curse you. If I explicitly set the weight of a line to be 1px then I damn well expect my line to be 1px wide!
Come on!
If I wore a pocket protector1, I’d be adjusting it for optimal pocket protection right now.
1 I felt linking to that ad was necessary, since there’s some Futura all up in there.
Good God, It’s Almost September
In what feels like an incredibly long time ago (middle school) there was someone in my class who threw a ham sandwich in a drawer in the wall at the back of our homeroom. That sandwich was left in that dark space for months. People at the back of the class started creeping forward, getting as far away from the developing smell as possible (without alerting anyone to the situation). I feel like that sandwich is this site at the moment. How is that for a compelling analogy?
Anyway, in spite of the overwhelming feeling that pressing the publish button is going to somehow take down the server, I’m going to post.
Right, so: this year has gone by much too quickly, particularly since moving downtown (Ottawa). Things have been great downtown so far, though I have to admit: for someone who considers himself a designer, my walls are pretty barren. I’ll get on that… one day.
I was far more proactive about procuring an iPhone 4 on its launch day in Canada at the start of August, though. 7 hours and 24 minutes I waited in a horrible line at the Rideau Centre. I’ll just say it’s a magical device; THERE ARE SO MANY GEEBEES! I decided to make up some wallpapers for that giant-ass 640×960 screen. I was a bit sneaky with one of them, which is obviously the 76design logo — for those familiar with it. It’s posted to a few Flickr iPhone wallpaper groups, so if anyone out there ends up using it I’ll get some kind of perverse sense of satisfaction.
The other one is not so PG. It was after a long day and sometimes it feels great to throw “Fuck” around a canvas.
And here’s something that ended up coming out of a client project. It’s a simple and literal representation of a network in a cloudy space. More might come from this one day, but until then it’s a 2560×1600 image available for download from Flickr.
Time to dust my hands for completing my second intellectually stimulating post of 2010.