I've been working on this poster project at Cricket's behest for the last week or so. We're graphic designers. Well, we were, but then we became moms at home with our kids. Being home with the tiny and growing children you've made with your sweetie is wonderful in many ways, but meanwhile, graphic design has gone positively ape-shit.
Cricket and I are feeling a little behind the curve. Recently, we were able to upgrade our creaking, aged versions of various Adobe products that enable one to create graphic magic. The software is practically unrecognizable from its former self. Its a good thing the kids are cute. We've missed out on a lot of the tech stuff, but we have some darn cute kids to show for it.
In the last week or so there has been a "what is graphic design" poster
contest on a design website called /veerle.duoh.com/blog/ that usually has some tasty Adoby skill enhancers on it. "Veerle" has a pretty big following and managed to get some good prizes for a contest that she herself got to judge. I thought it would be fun to enter, so I've been working up a poster design for it. The due date was today, which I knew. I forgot to factor in flying to Arizona to visit SuperDad and WonderMom today. Also, the brownies for the bake sale by Thing 1's class that needed to be made. Also Valentines day stuff. Oh, and music lessons this week. Did I tell you I'm taking a class in Dreamweaver online? Homework, fun!
After arriving at my folk's house this afternoon, I frantically booted up the laptop and got started, I only had to resize the thing and export it to jpg. from Illustrator. No big deal, done it millions of times. Naturally, I didn't have enough scratch disc to do that. So I backed up my iTunes content and deleted it. Still not enough. So I went about it three other different ways. Then I was supposed to put it on a flikr account, which I did not have. I do now!! And I got it going, went to add it to the contest flikr group—entries closed at midnight Belguim time (GMT+1). [expletive!]. I live in GMT-8. Sigh, it was a fun exercise.
Cricket still wants to see it, so here it is: Graphic Design = noise -> signal
Cricket and I are feeling a little behind the curve. Recently, we were able to upgrade our creaking, aged versions of various Adobe products that enable one to create graphic magic. The software is practically unrecognizable from its former self. Its a good thing the kids are cute. We've missed out on a lot of the tech stuff, but we have some darn cute kids to show for it.
In the last week or so there has been a "what is graphic design" poster
contest on a design website called /veerle.duoh.com/blog/ that usually has some tasty Adoby skill enhancers on it. "Veerle" has a pretty big following and managed to get some good prizes for a contest that she herself got to judge. I thought it would be fun to enter, so I've been working up a poster design for it. The due date was today, which I knew. I forgot to factor in flying to Arizona to visit SuperDad and WonderMom today. Also, the brownies for the bake sale by Thing 1's class that needed to be made. Also Valentines day stuff. Oh, and music lessons this week. Did I tell you I'm taking a class in Dreamweaver online? Homework, fun!
After arriving at my folk's house this afternoon, I frantically booted up the laptop and got started, I only had to resize the thing and export it to jpg. from Illustrator. No big deal, done it millions of times. Naturally, I didn't have enough scratch disc to do that. So I backed up my iTunes content and deleted it. Still not enough. So I went about it three other different ways. Then I was supposed to put it on a flikr account, which I did not have. I do now!! And I got it going, went to add it to the contest flikr group—entries closed at midnight Belguim time (GMT+1). [expletive!]. I live in GMT-8. Sigh, it was a fun exercise.
Cricket still wants to see it, so here it is: Graphic Design = noise -> signal
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