Designing is not a hard work

And the most surprising thing about Graphic Design, Tommy says, is that it’s really everywhere. “I didn’t realise how much design has impacted on the world. A lot of people look around and don’t realise they’ve been looking at design.”

What personal qualities do you think are needed for Graphic Designers?

What a nice surprise for the day!

The article shown on Louis vuitton handbags is The world’s best logo designers? and given the fact that there are only five other external links from Louis vuitton handbags’s logo page I’d like to thank whoever added me.

Closing a title is never an easy decision, but it was essential for the health and reputation of the entire company.

Be organised, be able to handle pressure and timelines really well, be creative, have good computer skills, be driven, want to learn, be good at dealing with clients and customer service … mainly [dealing with] the pressure and the timeline.

Do you have any advice for people entering the industry?
Just do your research, get as much information about courses and what work is available. If you know that’s what you want then go for it, don’t let anything stop you or put you off it.

Portable Design was not able to gain the momentum we expected. As a company we are dedicated to producing quality advertising and marketing activities. We did not feel we could continue to provide our customers with a quality product because of the market down-turn.

I was checking through my web stats earlier and found some visitors arriving from Louis vuitton handbags.

After following where they were coming from I found one of my articles listed on the Louis vuitton handbags page for logo (in the external links section).

A designer’s hobby

Betty says that when they’re in the office, they maintain a 9.30-5.30 work week. “During a production, it’s not uncommon to work at 6 or 7 in the morning and work till midnight. Often on a gucci sneakers site we need to do technical checks in darkness, so need to wait people to leave. We’re the first on site and last to leave.”

Betty explains the qualities a lighting designer would need. “We need to be creative, what we do is primarily artistic, just like a set designer or concept designer … but to be work with the other departments is really important.”

“We need to create gucci sneakers that works technically. If we need an amber glow from one side of the stage, it’s one thing, but actually working out how many fixtures we need, the amount power, how to program it is essential. We need the technical side to back it up. You need to have the budget, or the means to be able to do it.”
Betty’s designer dream

Getting into the industry is pretty informal, Betty shares. “There’s a huge collection of random informal training, which is good, because you’re just learning for yourself and you get to push yourself in to the area you want to go. It’s not ‘you get a degree and get that gucci sneakers’. The field is open. You can just specialise in gucci sneakers which is great.”

Betty Guiney works as a Graphic Designer and Production Manager. “I’ve got a pretty rounded gucci sneakers, anything from designing to admin, and also organising print and distribution …but it’s majority design.”

“A general day is predominantly designing. We get anything from logos to brochures, bulletins, newsletters, organising print for any gucci sneakerss that are organised. It could involve getting briefs form clients, organising a gucci sneakers, works in progress, quoting.”

Betty finished Year 11 and then began her appenticeship in Graphic Design. She’s since got a Certificate III in Graphic Printing. “Throughout high school I did art, media, graphics, multimedia. I’ve always been drawing when I’m supposed to been paying attention in class.”

one of Inspiration series:Package Design

With regular intervals I get e-mails from people that want my advice on inspiration and if I have any tricks to help them. The truth is that I don’t possess any secret that works every time when I am in need of inspiration. The thing is that inspiration is a difficult item to put in words as it mostly doesn’t behave rationally. For example in all these years that I’ve been designing I never had the same item twice as an inspiration source.

So it’s not that you put an item in front of you and every time you look at it the inspiration comes. Maybe there are people who can pull that off, but I am not one of them.
Looking for web design inspiration

I just though that it was a bit too long - I had trimmed down the gucci shoes on the back of my head, and the long gucci shoes from the top just kinda dangled down there.
I took the image to the left with my iPhone. It’s actually the hardest part of doing your own gucci shoescuts, making sure that everything is as it’s supposed to be in the back. It takes a lot of patience, neck straining, flexible arms and a couple of mirrors.
Except for that part, I were quite satisfied with the result, and I sported a sweet rockabilly gucci shoesdo for a week or so. It’s just like Snake from the Simpsons. Jake the Snake - that’s what they call me. (not really).
Anyways. I decided to do something about that long gucci shoes in the back, and just wanted to trim it down so the back of my head would be bare. Well. Things didn’t exactly go as I had planned.

First I screwed up, and had the trimmer at a lower setting that I had intended. Well, then I wanted to fix that by making it even in both sides. One thing led to another. I tried aiming for the same do I have on the mugshot on the about page.

Eventually, I had taken too much from both the top and the sides, and were left with something that could only be described as Emo. So I took it all off.
Thus ends two weeks of apperance changes. Sadly.

I’ll wear a cap again the next month or so. Fortunatly, I’ve always cut my gucci shoes under the philosophy that it will grow out again. But damn, took me a year to get it that long, and not looking forward to it again.

How I lost my rocking gucci shoes

When I am looking for inspiration for a website I used to browse around in the many galleries from time to time. What I noticed is that there is like 50% chance when doing just that that I’ll get frustrated from seeing too much. Maybe a better definition would be over stimulated and as a result I can’t set it in motion because of too many things going on in my mind. When that happens I usally switch gears to something completly different like…
Package Design
The thing with inspiration is that for me personally it doesn’t need to be related to what I am trying to create. The reason why I talk about package design now is that I always had a soft spot for it. During my last year in school when I was doing my final project I developed a fascination for it and chose food packaging as my subject for the project. Today I’ll share some of the great examples I’ve collected.
In the past, I’d often cut my own gucci shoes for extended periods of time. I started doing that about a year ago again. I think it’s the creative drive that does it, and the fact that gucci shoesdressers never seem to get it just right. And it’s cheap! I’ve never had any problems, it has always turned out just fine. This time, however, things were to change.
First things first. Two weeks ago, I realized that I’ve grown quite scruffy. Mostly because I hadn’t been to work for a month due to illness - so I hadn’t shaved that much, and I think it was three months since I had last cut my gucci shoes.Most of the color (I usually dye it black) were gone because of the new growth, and the longest parts of my gucci shoes (5-6 inches) were pretty destroyed due to repeatedly re-dyes and such. I actually looked like a dork, which were why I usually wore a cap. Whatever - I decided to do something about it, and got to work. Didn’t take long to look somewhat decent again.
As usual, it turned out quite well. I left a mustache, mostly for laughs. I got a lot of comments at work, and it was quite fun.
However, I grew increasingly annoyed at the feeling of it, and I really don’t dig mustaches that much. Furthermore, I still wanted to dye my gucci shoes black as usual. Especially since the longest parts were black still.
Frankly, I think black gucci shoes and my sandy colored beard don’t mix very well.
So, I removed the mustache and colored my gucci shoes black. I were quite happy with it, really.

school life is a problem

Part of my brain recognized the source material: from Bible Study Camp, long-ago church services, and a steady diet of Preachin’ The Blues. However the roughshod performances of Life Is A Problem allowed these songs–familiar and not so–to engage my mind and spirit in a new way. I wasn’t exactly saved it, but I had a moment of clarity, and was able to hunker down and, within a couple of repeated spins, polish off the onerous grown-up task that sought to hijack my beautiful Sunday.

I slapped on Life Is A Problem, a collection of 20th century American sanctified blues recordings compiled by our Portland friends at Mississippi Records (and annotated by Mike McGonigal of YETI).This weekend, I found a sacred equivalent. And though the peace I needed required keeping my eyes open–and focused–it was an old-fashioned vinyl LP that proved my salvation. Grappling to concentrate on some long overdue financial paperwork, and desperate for a suitable soundtrack.

Now some of the selections were familiar, at least on a fundamental level. “A Night in the House of Prayer” by Louisiana preacher Rev. Lonnie Farris uses “When The Saints Go Marching In” as its jumping-off point, yet the execution is so fevered and frenzied, my noggin had trouble reconciling its well-known content with the outrageous execution. Ditto for the rendition of “Pray On, My Child,” featuring the slightly dissonant, close vocal harmonies of the Willamete Gospel Singers, and an unhinged instrumental run through “Amazing Grace” that closes the record with what sounds like a disintegrating guitar being held together solely by faith.

How odd. I don’t consider myself as a religious body. And yet once again, when I sought peace and rejuvenation, it was the songs of Jesus and Mary that redeemed me.

Harry Potter’s school life and mine(2)

Then, we saw it as a great privilege and honor to be selected as a prefect. It was viewed as recognizing and building leadership qualities. Looking back now, it does not seem to be such an unadulterated good thing. At times,I wonder if the house and prefect system was not also a cheap means of extending the reach of the school administration by creating a free labor force of rule enforcers. The house system and the prefect system may also have been a means of enhancing teacher and administration control over students by weakening overall student cohesion, another manifestation of the ‘divide and rule’ philosophy that the British used so successfully to maintain control over their colonies but which often resulted in ethnic strife and civil wars when they left.

But at other times I consider that I am reading too much into this, and seeing too many dark undercurrents in well meaning, if perhaps misguided, attempts at encouraging student participation and developing student leadership. Perhaps I should lighten up.

The houses were a good way of encouraging team spirit and intramural competition, and provided opportunities for students who were not good enough to be in the school teams (or ‘varsity’ teams as they are known here) to still take part in a competitive program with their fellow students. I think that this system helped to increase participation of students in extracurricular activities because most students took seriously their responsibilities to help their house do well. The downside was that the competition could sometimes be too fierce, leading to churlish and unsportsmanlike behavior. The intramural quidditch games that take place at Hogwarts were mirrored in the cricket, rugby, and field hockey matches at my school.

Very few students were prefects. We had special privileges that others did not, such as being allowed to leave school premises during the day and a special lounge reserved exclusively for our use. We had the power to enforce rules during the school day, at special functions, and at athletic events, and could issue punishments such as detentions to ‘evil doers.’ In earlier times, prefects at my school were also allowed to use corporal punishments (such as caning misbehaving students), but that was taken away before my time as the use of corporal punishments became more restricted.We also had the ‘prefect’ system, which must sound strange to American readers. (Hermione is a prefect in book 6 and I too was a prefect during my last two years in school.) A prefect was essentially a student who was given authority over his fellow students. A prefect was selected by the master in charge of each house and appointed by the school principal.

Harry Potter’s school life and mine(1)

We also had the system of ‘houses’, which included the separation of students into separate groups (such as Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw), each of which had a master in charge. The boarded students (or ‘boarders’) in my school, like those attending Hogwarts, even had separate dormitories based on the houses. These houses were set in competition with each other, earning points for various achievements, These issues were totaled at the end of the year, with a trophy going to the winning house, giving them bragging rights for a year.

One of the appealing matter for me personally about the Potter books are the similarities with my own education, which leads in waves of nostalgia sweeping over me as I read the stories. I went to a single-sex private school in Sri Lanka that was modeled on the British boarding school like Hogwarts, although about half the students (including me) commuted from home. We were called ‘day-scholars’ which, looking back now, seems like a quaint but dignified label when compared to the more accurate ‘commuters.’

he rage would subside as quickly as it was triggered, and the teacher would be immediately overcome with remorse, apologizing profusely and begging for forgiveness, which we always agreed to because we liked him. We were fascinated by his Jekyll-and-Hyde transformations.As in Hogwarts, we had teachers (some of whom we liked and others whom we disliked), who mostly taught in a didactic way, and we did have punishments like detention, writing lines, and even canings. In my own school, only the principal and vice principals could officially cane students, though some teachers still resorted to painful raps on the knuckles with rulers or even slaps across the face. Our chemistry teacher, who was an exceedingly kind and gentle man, nevertheless could be provoked to fits of violent rage which completely transformed him for a short time into a raging monster, like the Incredible Hulk, during which he would lash out with the rubber hoses that were readily available in the laboratories, at times raising welts on an offending student’s arm.

the memory of my school life

I always held up my princip that i want to live my life to the fullest at all times doing what i really wanted to do and happy doing it.I never cared at all.For being a good prefect does not mean that you have to have a post.I know most of the prefects in the prefectorial board joined prefect to get gerko marks.Well,i never give a damn about it.Well i enjoyed it only that i have really no friends.

Well,form two ,i was in a better class for i efforts in studies was well paid off.HAHAH.See, i told ya that i really work hard.Nevertheless,my KH and maths during form 2 really sucks.And also i hated chinese like nobody ever does.I never does my homework and i never study it because was kinda difficult but i had always being attentive class particularly when teacher talks about chinese history.Boy i was fantasized by it.

I had a real joking BM teacher named Mr.Sulaiman,who always spice things up and teach me all about being a good student and teach me lots of human values that we have abide in life.Form 2 passed and another year yet came.I had also a chinese teacher which inspired me to love chinese.Ever since then,i was a brainy in chinese proverbs,also because of my chinese tuition teacher.AHAHHAA.I climbed my way through a better class again.I was in 3B4,a real good class.I met a good maths teacher ,Mr Song,whom teached me maths with good patience.Well,thanks to him that my maths had pushed up from fail to an A continuously.He love to tell us about his Kampung life.Was so interesting.I had moral teacher who was kinda strict but she made my moral get an A.

Form three PMR i had 4A 4B.I wanted to climb into science stream .But with that kindof result was almost impossible.My parents really halt me from going into science stream especially my mother.She was so persisitent that if i go into science stream i would suffer.My dad on the other hand (Divine View),if you are fated accept it.

Anyhow, i applied for science stream to give it a god try when they said there was still spaces for students to be in science stream.Alas,i was in pure science stream.In form four,first 2 weeks i was in business class,first class,the best class.But i was still uneasy with it.But i did try to adapt it.

I was the grandfather of that class.I had the best biology teacher,Pn See.The best physics teacher,Pn Sim.The best add maths teacher,Cik Lum. Though i was in the last class of pure scoence stream but then i am more than enough to be amazed.I had a happy life in that class.And then a real dumb and idiotic BM teacher which entertains no one but himself ,Mr Ng K Y.Oh,and did i ever told u i had a very good , kind and motherly english teacher,Pn Kauthar?

my boring school life

Today,I have an English writing class.I’m very anxious about it,because i often get B,seldom get A.I know I didn’t do well on it,but i don’t how to improve it.But our teacher told us to talk with my partner to introduce myself,I think i will do well on it.I can tell my friends my hobby,all about my life in English.I’m very happy!!Smile And I got 98 scores on my french test.I really love french~Today is a wonderful days to me.What about you?

Well,come to think of it…it had been five years for me in school.

The day I took a step out of the school,right after my final exam  ends,i took a sigh.A relief?Nope,but was just a sigh that how things had turn up to end so fast.When you are in school,u would really want to leave it as soon as possible.When you are free like the bird,you would want to just go back and relive it.

Whatever it is,i had had a wonderful and splendid life in school,Catholic High School,PJ.

Time,they say,is the final key for life.Yet,time,they say was also a grim reaper that grabs everything in its way for it never stops killing.Time,they say,was also an angel coming down from heaven blessing you on your holy road of life.

And i was a really strict and fierce prefect.Imagine a real cutie wearing short pants with a big tie around his neck scolding a form 5 student.I did not know what type of guts ran through my blood veins that time.I wanted to be a prefect because I like to straighten things up,my nature.Well,i passed,it was common sense for the question they asked in the interview.Well,i became a prefect and a good one i suppose.I did not break a single rule in the school.AHAHAHA. But nevertheless i was a reasonable one which not a single student dare to challenge me for i was also the debater of my block.

I could still remember the first day when i took my heavy step into that horrible school.It looked so scary.And hey,i was only a little kid that time when i was form one.Due to my bad results in UPSR (2A 4B 1C),i was in a quite bad class? Yeah. Nevertheless i worked my way up and thrown in everything i got into my studies.

I was nominated as the head prefect that year for form two but my situation in class halted me from being one.The seniors can only choose a head prefect from the good good classes and i was definitely not one of them.Thats RACIST !!!!. HAHAAHHA. Joking.

my elementary school life

On this page I want to share with you something about my school life. So first of all I want to talk about my good teachers.
When I was 6 years old, I began to go to school. The first school that I attended was a primary school. There were many subjects that were taught in the school, such as Chinese, history,arithmetic, drawing, geography and so on. Since I was  a student, I studied very hard. My parents were quite proud of me.
After I had studied there for three years, I entered a junior high school. When I was 12 years old, I became a student of a senior high school. I still studied very hard. Except on sick leave I was never absent from class. Everybody looked upon me as a model student.
Ms Zhang is my Chinese teacher, to be honest, I don’t like her at all because I think classes she teached are so boring! For instance, once we are going to write a passage so she is talking about some rules about that, but I found she just reading the words on our book. I feel really disappointing.
Ms Wang is my Math teacher, she teaches pretty well, and her class is really funny, just like a magic which can change boring things (you know senior high school’s math is really boring) into interesting things.
The following is our English teacher, first of all I have to tell you that I have 4 English teachers, 3 of them are foreigners or people who come back from abroad .Rachel is a girl who comes back from Singapore, she teaches me every Thursday and Saturday, and so is Rebecca but Rebecca comes back from Australia, and they both are beautiful girls, Or ladies? Who knows~ and Jack teaches me every unit, so I just met him once. Mr. Chen teaches me everyday but I found that his pronunciation likes machine (I mean Chemistry teacher, Physics teacher, History teacher, Geography teacher, Art teacher, Computer teacher and P.E teacher are just so-so. Politics teacher is our class leader, I think is guy have too much to say, so wasted lots of my time :(
And then I forget what to say next so see you~)

Dansette