and another thing:
I finally got around to buying some of those TOMBO Japanese Felt-tip brush pens (I'll insert a HTML link at some point) from the art shop off Leicester Square, and I've been having mad fun doodling with them.
I'm thinking I'll use them to design that fracking business card that I've beent talking about for the last two years (at least).
I already have the lettering down, I'm just trying to find or design some cool curly art-nouveau stuff to put in the corners, for no better reason than to make it look more Design-ey.
At some point I'll scan some stuff down at the local net cafe (where they still wave when I walk past) and put it on line.
Thinking about it the other day, I decided that I was having so much trouble designing a business card I like because I was trying to design a clean and professional looking business card. I realised that a business card should reflect me and what makes me special, and clean and professional is not necessarily who I am. I mean, I can behave in a professional manner (I'm very rarely unprofessional), and I do have that OCD thing going on, but I don't think that a sterile and corporate design would communicate what I'm about.
The flipside of which is that I have to make sure that I don't create a business card where the kerning is all off, the elements are all over the place and it generally looks like someone dipped some spiders in ink, dropped them on a some card and make them dance the tango.
Looking online for some stuff by Aubrey Beardsley (will raid the library etc as well). Aubrey Beardsley is always fun.
Enough enough.
Over and out.
-J
I'm thinking I'll use them to design that fracking business card that I've beent talking about for the last two years (at least).
I already have the lettering down, I'm just trying to find or design some cool curly art-nouveau stuff to put in the corners, for no better reason than to make it look more Design-ey.
At some point I'll scan some stuff down at the local net cafe (where they still wave when I walk past) and put it on line.
Thinking about it the other day, I decided that I was having so much trouble designing a business card I like because I was trying to design a clean and professional looking business card. I realised that a business card should reflect me and what makes me special, and clean and professional is not necessarily who I am. I mean, I can behave in a professional manner (I'm very rarely unprofessional), and I do have that OCD thing going on, but I don't think that a sterile and corporate design would communicate what I'm about.
The flipside of which is that I have to make sure that I don't create a business card where the kerning is all off, the elements are all over the place and it generally looks like someone dipped some spiders in ink, dropped them on a some card and make them dance the tango.
Looking online for some stuff by Aubrey Beardsley (will raid the library etc as well). Aubrey Beardsley is always fun.
Enough enough.
Over and out.
-J
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