Clients: We've All Been There

No matter what industry you're in, I'm sure you can relate to clients behaving badly when it comes time to pay up, and this video puts them in more everyday situations without going too far from the truth.



via Brandflakes for Breakfast

GDMA Degree Show

The grads from my work are strutting their stuff tonight at the GDMA Degree Show 2008. If you'd like to see their work (and some expertly setup computers, displays and projectors, if I do say so myself...), come on down to the Roundhouse sometime in the next 3 weeks. For more information on the rest of the events, including the Graphex 08 exhibition, a night with Stefan Sagmeister, and a screening of my favourite font movie, Helvetica, head over to the Kwantlen Centre for Design and Communications page (and check out that beautiful logo while you're there...)

It's All in How You Look at Things

The importance of looking at your product from every angle has never been more true that with this unfortunate logo, which is a shoe-in for the infamous logo awards (Not quite safe for work, but really they're all just company logos).

Read more about it and the company's surprisingly calm response here.

Photoshop Disasters

My brother just pointed to me to the hilarious Photoshop Disasters, which is like keeping up with celebrity gossip, but the celebrities are designers and the paparazzi is nerds.

My favourites so far are this, this, this and this.

Trajan Is The Movie Font

If you're going to the movies this weekend, look out for Trajan. Coming to a theatre near you...

Vancouver 2010 Mascots

Today the official mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games were announced, and they are cute.

They were designed by half-local/half-Los Angles design company Meomi Design, are rendered wonderfully and speak like Pokemon. As far as I can tell, Miga is a sea bear who turns from a whale into a little bear, Sumi is what I thought was a bear but has the wings of an eagle and apparently wears a whale hat, and Quatchi is a regular old Sasquatch, and is obviously the coolest. Those are the 3 main ones, but there's also Mukmuk the marmot, who sports an oversized "We're number one" hand and is awesome.

On the website, you can watch a really nicely animated video, download some desktops, and even take a quiz to see which mascot you are (I was pleased to find out that I am Quatchi).

Overall, they might be criticized for being super cute but they are really just mascots and anything is better than our friend Izzy the Whatzit here. I really like them and look forward to seeing them around.

Font Funnies

Every time I choose one of these typefaces, I will be thinking of these puns...and groaning. A sample:

“Bodoni hurts when I laugh. Now, I spend my Times Roman the streets.” He walked away singing Myriad a Little Lamb.