This is while I was on vacation. You don’t know all the strange looks I received while writing this and taking a photo of this. I actually wrote the whole alphabet.  I would like to see Photoshop make type look like this, SO BRING IT ON!!!

Some of this stuff is new, some is revamped. Enjoy

How Inspiration Works

can you read this

think of us

Here are some new brushes! Here is a sample of what they look like as well as a design that i created with these brushes only! let me know what you think as well as how you use them.

Here is the sample of what i created with the brushes

Here are the brushes

I don’t usually post someone else’s work, but this was too amazing not to share. It is a new video by blu. Check it out and let me know what you think.

BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

SO as i am about to go for a run, i am reminded of the last time i went running/stalked. Ok let me start from the beginning. Running is a very lonely activity and that is what i like and dislike about it at the same time. SO, i was running and saw another person running in the same direction that i was running!!!!!! SO of course i made it into a game. My game was to to try and catch him. He was running faster than me, so it  was a challenging game:)

He looked back at me half way through the run and when he saw me he did nothing and kept running, but as I made every turn that he did he started to pick up the pace. Now i don’t know if it was because of me, but it was pretty convincing that it was. He kept looking over his shoulder as if to say……”are you still there” or “who is this guy” or “get the hint go away”

Well i did not get the hint and did not go away. I was at this point following him where ever he was going, it was fun and really forgot i was running.  I had know idea where i was a t this point as I was following him. Eventually i had to break off and go back home as I was lost and only can run so long on my foot.

However, the whole time i was thinking of funny things to do when this other runner would turn around. here are a couple: BTW would love to hear Any of your funny things to do or say.

1. Slice my throat with my hand
2. Two handed wave
3. Say ” i see you”
4. Dart out of the way in the bushes every-time he turns around
5. “HEY you, do you have any friends”
6. “can i follow you home”
7. What’s your address, i will meet you at your house”

~dzob

I definitely think there are some courtesies that Americans do not do and some that we do too much.

1. Waving when someone lets you in: The first one that I want to talk about is when driving and somebody lets you in.  The courteous thing to do is wave, which means, hey kind person thank you for letting me in when all these other jack asses did not. Why don’t people use this? I feel people think that you have to let them in and it is their right. That drives me nuts. When I let cars in and they don’t do this I give them the finger behind the steering wheel, so they cannot see that I am doing it. It gets my anger out without being shot in the face

2. Holding the door. This is a courtesy that we can do with out. I am all for someone holding the door for someone with groceries, hands full, kids, a pregnant person, some one stealing a T.V., all of those are ok. However, if I am an able bodied person who can move my arm forward and back I do not need the door held for me. Thanks but no thank you!! And here is the reason it annoys me so.

The door is usually not held when I am right behind them it is when I am to far away for me to stick my hand out and grab the door. So, what ends up happening is that you have to jog or walk quickly to grab the door that they are holding for you to be “nice.” AND AND they get annoyed if you don’t get to it soon enough, as if you are the jerk for not walking faster then you normally walk. There “HELP” because not helpful and in fact becomes work.

What I normally do if someone is holding the door for me, I walk at my normal pace and if they want to stick it out good for them, if they let the door close, perfect. Sometimes I shout, “thanks, but you can let it o” there is just no need

When I “hold the door” it is for someone who is right behind me. I mean I am not a jerk, I will not let it slam in their face, ok…..well maybe that has happened a couple of times.

I have let the door close because the person was far away and have them yell “thanks for holding the door” in that case I just continue to walk because you know that person could. A kick my ass and B. are probably looking for some confrontation

Ok so that went longer than I thought, so I will stop there. More to come later

~dzob

So normally i post my own stuff, but my son drew these monsters that are too great not to share! SO I hope you like them and i will post more with his artwork as well as a spread i am going to develop that uses only his art work.

I want to start a design revolution!!! Who is with me? I am tired of seeing BAD design. Reply if you want to be part of the revolution.

1. We need a name
2. A purpose
3. a slogan
4. Chain of command

anything else i am missing?

~dzob

I have this new fascination with turning people into brushes, so i was playing around the other day and this is what i have come up with so far. Let me know what you think!!

I want to comment on the state of graphic design. I am not talking about getting jobs I am talking about what I am seeing that graphic designers are doing. From Magazines, movie poster, flyers, etc. It seems that graphic design has been confused with layout artist or template followers. WHEN did this happen and WHY? The WHY I can tell you; Because it is easy. It is easy to follow a template and just layout in copy and text, but takes true skill to think of a concept. Any one can put words on color, but it is the designer that makes it come to life.

I have seen too much of the template designs and it is driving me crazy!!! COME ON DESIGNERS stand up for what is right and challenge us! I would bet money that if magazines where more DESIGNED and less LAYED OUT more people would buy them and keep them and share them.

So, that being said….Colleen, another contributor on this site, and I were talking and she suggested the idea of a REAL TO LIFE layout. So we take our normal 16” x 10” design and make it 16 feet x 10 feet and have to create elements NOT using the computer. SO if you wanted type you would have to draw it or recreate it or even print in out but then put it on your real life spread. If you wanted people in your spread you would have to have people lay in your spread.

The idea of this makes me feel alive and want to try this out. I was thinking of doing a test run and posting photos of what happens. Imagine the possibilities!!

~dzob