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tumble down

an original and intriguing selection of ephemera on the magnificent ruin blog…

m / 20-02-2011 16:53 - tags: , ,  

a matter of taste

i’m not sure this is a colour combination i would ever have devised myself, but it is so odd that it works…

m / 20-02-2011 16:49 - tags: ,  

easily distinguished from other words

interesting article from the BBC website on how the term OK took over the world

m / 20-02-2011 16:47 - tags: ,  

sacrifice

…what’s more important, success or money?
Well it’s naïve to separate the two things, in my humble opinion. Working for yourself is obviously a way to keep costs down, and a way to stay completely in control of your destiny, but if you want to do projects of any scale, you need a studio, designers, a colour printer… That means that every year you need to pay salaries, pay the gas man and ideally have a bit left over for a few bonuses, the odd new computer and a decent xmas lunch. The trick is how to achieve this whilst doing rewarding work…

michael johnson spills the beans in an interview for the recently relaunched ‘grafik’ mag on how to become incredibly rich as a graphic designer, or possibly not…

m / 20-02-2011 16:45 - tags: ,  

‘free snowboard’ offer extended

some silliness for the weekend from that sarcastic australian graphic designer ‘david thorne’

…Contrary to popular belief, there is not a lot of snow in Australia and I recently discovered two facts;
1. Snow is cold and;
2. Coming from a climate where the coldest winter demands only complaining slightly less about how hot it is, I am ill-equipped for fact 1.

m / 20-02-2011 16:33 - tags: ,