could you do it? Sep 23, 10, 2:18 p.m.

one of my friends who's still in college was just given this assignment by his journalism professor:

MEDIA COLD TURKEY
No texting, calling, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, iTunes, internet, etc. for two days. No media interaction or usage whatsoever. You can: read books / newspapers (printed versions, of course) / magazines / talk / write.

i think i could do no internet (done it before) but no music? no freaking way.

stuck. Jul 23, 10, 2:05 p.m.

i feel like i'm in a rut - professionally / emotionally / etc.

relationships suck, work sucks, friends suck...

what do you do to get un-stuck? i almost bought a house in marfa, tx... decided it was a bit overkill.

drastic change? small changes? drink a lot? any suggestions (yes, even sarcastic ones) are appreciated.

i graduated! May 18, 09, 3:13 p.m.

from USC school of architecture!
hooray!
5 years of hell over!

...

anyone have any jobs?
haha. the real world is hitting pretty hard.

stylish branding firm. Sep 28, 09, 12:10 a.m.

working on a skincare line... need stylish / sexy / slick branding + identity firms. any thoughts?

thanks!

illy q Apr 27, 09, 5:25 a.m.

how do i get a transparency that is at full saturation? like below... so it doesn't get all pastel-y.

need a drink. Feb 4, 09, 4:02 p.m.

my clients seem to have gone batshit crazy today.

my printer can't get a client's identity package right - we spent $300 on a test run and said test run failed miserably.

another client/partner made a very large (and very ill-informed) business decision without me, and i am a co-owner in her company.

drinks? great. now.

agency pitch Jul 30, 10, 9:06 a.m.

need some ammo for a meeting....

we are a marketing company that is pitching to a big big big company in the UK to be their agency... they sent an RFP etc. we've done a lot of work for them before, just on a contract basis.

my opinion: we show our work with their company in our format with our identity and our CI guidelines.

the prez's opinion: we show our work with their company in their format with our identity, but totally based on their CI guidelines - their fonts etc.

i think that to vomit up their CI guidelines in a RFP response / pitch is like saying "hi, we're not creative at all, but we're really good at mimicking."

thoughts?

multi-address business cards Jul 7, 10, 11:28 a.m.

hello qbn -

anyone have any good examples of business cards with multiple office locations on them?

perused the business card thread for examples, but didn't see any...

we just opened an office in lausanne and the boss wants to look swish and have it on everything. using it as an excuse to do a full-on rebrand... but it looks crazy busy.

thoughts?

center alignment q Oct 16, 09, 6:56 p.m.

okay, so this is very very rough draft, but... in doing a center align on the 'you' and the 'beauté', it looks great with the guides. then when guides are gone, it looks lop-sided. any thoughts on correct alignment / guidance?

lord, it's early. Mar 13, 09, 2:27 a.m.

2:27 a.m.

collaging interior perspectives of my thesis project at architecture school with fashion mags. on my second rockstar.

anyone else up, tinkering around?

i swear i'm not a noob. Oct 17, 08, 5:16 p.m.

it's been a while.

i think i used to be niconico on here... way back in the newstoday era. good to see some of you crazies are still here.

dumb illy q May 7, 09, 9:18 p.m.

hi.

trying to free transform a photo in illy to fit a perspective view... and i'm hitting the right key combo, but when i get one corner just right, it snaps back to 90 degrees as if i didn't do anything.

lame. am i doing something wrong?

WTF May 17, 10, 8:12 a.m.

the 'das ist ihr wagen...' font.

please and thank you!

anyone wanna give me a quote? Oct 21, 09, 11:09 p.m.

so, web is not my game and i don't feel like learning flash / css / etc. in two months as i have a ishload of other stuff to do.

i've been chatting with a semi-known web development / interactive place out here in denver... and i want a second & third bid.

here's what i need:

one (1) main flash-y site for skincare brand. five or six sub-pages over monochrome photography, music, reeeaallllly minimal / chic / slick... nothing too complicated or

one (1) shopify css skin to match above site (super-easy solution for e-commerce - we don't want to break the bank on round one, but we don't want people emailing us to order ish...)

anyone? even if you don't wanna bid, anyone have a reasonable idea of cost? just throw numbers at me.

thanks!

blackberry = p.o.s. Oct 5, 09, 10:21 p.m.

just dl'ed new desktop manager for mac... and deleted all contacts from my bb, defaulted to factory settings, and made all of my calendar events all-day events set in casablanca.

is it iphone time?

i think it might be.

effing™ Nov 13, 08, 3:57 p.m.

just spent a loooong time figuring out precisely how to integrate a trademark into an identity without totally bastardizing the whole thing... and the lawyers tell me it's too small.

ARGH.

LA concert posters... Apr 6, 09, 2:54 p.m.

hi - this is a long shot... does anyone know where they print those crappy cheapo neon-colored concert posters that are all over telephone poles in LA? they are usually for things like 'NEW CREDIT REPORT' or 'LOSE WEIGHT' or 'LA GRAN BANDA ABRIL 18'.... i am working on a weird school project and i need to get some made...

and no, i don't want to design my own... i want this to be good old-fashioned bad typography cranked out by some old man on a press.

thanks!

wtf? Jun 14, 11, 10:07 a.m.

header font - http://www.bmivoyager.com/

also, is this a webkit font? art directing a job for a friend and the shop cannot figure out how to make this font happen on her wordpress.

many thanks!

illy q. Dec 1, 08, 8:46 p.m.

so i have a DXF from autocad i pulled into illy - everything is fine and dandy except my walls simply will not be filled.

they are autocad polylines that i don't know how to join into one complex shape that can be filled... anyone know the answer? it's probably super-noob and obvious. the walls in question are the thick black outlines below...

what the font? Nov 15, 08, 8:29 p.m.

driving me nuts.