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happy new year
ok, it would seem that location is a factor and it’s all pretty relative anyway… but here’s ‘me’ wishing everyone, everywhere much happiness and peace in the year ahead
i hope to see (or just inspire) you again next year & above all:
thanks a million for visiting ‘me’, sending ‘me’ cool stuff, angry mails, good advice, paying my bills and giving me the opportunity to make lots of nice stuff and have a lot of fun in the past year, it’s been a hectic but good year (honest) making a living in graphic design has never been so challenging as in the current economic & political climate but i still couldn’t think of anything better to do with my life…
the blog visitors are increasing at the rate of something like about 70% every year, so keep up the good work and most of all do keep in touch, see you back here next week/year xxx
at the risk of getting the usual hundreds of annoying spam messages… i’m switching comments on below, for any well wishers or critics who want to leave a message…
a diagram of heresy
i promise i will resist the temptation to do a ‘best & worst of the year’ post, everyone else has already done it (just look around the blogosphere) but this one from ‘fastco’ caught my eye… particularily this funky looking wireframe documenting the many contradictions in the bible, which apparently caused a bit of a stir (in the US of course, i would guess)
some ‘dude’ is posing as me on the message board
sites where illustration and hand lettering is used extensively or even exclusively are few and far between, ones where it is done well are even scarcer, this one does just that…
the tone of voice, the content, the illustration style and the way the information has been placed just all seems right in my opinion, it’s a breath of fresh air in terms of the browsing experience for me, no… it wouldn’t work for lots of things and it does get tiring after say five minutes or so, but for a brief visit it simply works…
oh yeah… and the most surprising thing is who owns the website and has made all of the illustrations & hand lettering, it’s the ‘dude’ himself a.k.a. the actor jeff bridges…
often when celebrities decide to do ‘something else’ creative it can be embarrassingly awful, in this case much like the actor ‘yul brynner’ (see yesterdays post) it does feel very authentic