Lee: The process of the final blog.

The following a brief transcript of how this blog came into being, involving both Tane (as joedivola) and myself.

Lee says:
ah yes

Lee says:
its all coming back to me

joedivola says:
my wife never did tho

joedivola says:
after the pecan incident

Lee says:
pecan incident of 89?

joedivola says:
yep, 89 pecan incidents in the summer of 43

joedivola says:
thirty three casualties

joedivola says:
thats when i became mute

Lee says:
my herion adiction didnt help either

Lee says:
during the incident

joedivola says:
i was pushing wheat on street corners at the time

Lee says:
wheat is pretty chronic

joedivola says:
you mightve been shooting up my high grade wheat

joedivola says:
actually it was just self-raising flour but it made coin

Lee says:
you gotta do what u gotta do

joedivola says:
when duty calls you stop drop and do it

joedivola says:
when nature calls you stop drop and do it

joedivola says:
i like duty but i always put nature on hold

joedivola says:
nature gets my answering machine

Lee says:
nature rides shotgun with me

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urinating everywhere

joedivola says:
malls

joedivola says:
civic centres

joedivola says:
bowling greens

Lee says:
old mans hats

joedivola says:
sunbathers

Lee says:
prostys

joedivola says:
petrol tanks

joedivola says:
windscreen fluid canisters

Lee says:
alexander the great

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police cheif cruthers

joedivola says:
architects

joedivola says:
blogs

Lee says:
AH BLOGS

Lee says:
still got that freestyle one to do aye

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fuckery

joedivola says:
haha

Lee says:
what u do urs on?

Lee says:
i dont recall seeing it

joedivola says:
a really long blog without using full stops generally discussing the creepiness of mimes moths and a teddy bear named gustav

joedivola says:
and the like

Lee says:
sounds like a winer

Lee says:
winer?

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winner!

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WINNAH!

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WEINER!

joedivola says:
it was a whiner

joedivola says:
you should blog up a really whiny blog

joedivola says:
'why i hate my life'

Lee says:
haha

Lee says:
oh ssheeet

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thats reminds me

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i had a real phat blog idea to go with

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oh yeah

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people who apologise for shit they dont care about

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was at work and i realised that every "older" class upstanding citizen apologises whenever they ask for a plastic bag. or i ask if they want one

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or they say unfortunatly yeah i need one

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etc

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because it is trendy to hate plastic bags

joedivola says:
do they make a point of being embarassed about using plastic bags

Lee says:
embarassed

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i wouldnt go that far

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more like they dont want the pople around them to think there a bag using prick

Lee says:
50% of bag users

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use the excuse "im walking"

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as an excuse for taking a plastic bag

joedivola says:
what an absolute load of shit

joedivola says:
fakes

joedivola says:
as if they give a damn

Lee says:
they dont

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but its trendy to care for the environment

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which they arent doing. but pretening they want to!

joedivola says:
they probly get home and hit sheep or throw pesticide around

Lee says:
frolick in the blood of another human being

joedivola says:
would you breach the subject of the trendiness of cigarettes?

joedivola says:
its disputable and highly controversial

Lee says:
its plausible

joedivola says:
or is it busted

joedivola says:
do you think cigarettes are actually still trendy but everyone pretends they arent?

Lee says:
ohhh when you put it that way

Lee says:
yeah

Lee says:
"cigarettes are so gross.

Lee says:
give me 2 packs of PJ Gold plzzz

joedivola says:
i think people trying to quit are apparently even cooler because theyve decided they dont even need these to be cool

joedivola says:
but once you quit youre no longer cool

joedivola says:
thats why not many people can get thru the quitting stage

Lee says:
that is an extremly valid point

Lee says:
it must be looked into by the proper authorities asap

joedivola says:
raise it in your blog

lishy tiles

at first it was hard to decide what to do, so many ideas but where do i start? thats what i was asking myself. so i got my self ina little confuffle but than i finally sorted my self out. i learnt alot along the way with the tiles teaching me alot. It was a slow process at first but once i figured it out i was sweet as.. I am happy with the out come but near the end i was stressing about getting it done at time, once it was taken to the dodgy printers in burleigh n afta i had to sell a kidney to pay for it, i seen the changes i should of and wanted to make. so over all happy with what the outcome was .it was what i wanted to achive.

Wolff Olins vs Pentagram

Pentagram was founded in 1972 by five partners who all specialized in different areas of design. Pentagram is an organization with broad skills with many different specialties. They are design focused with seven partners each responsible for separate projects in their own specialised field. Pentagram is now one of the most well known design firms in the world. They provide a service across all forms of graphic design, from architecture t products to interior design.

It is a multi-disciplinary structure, organised around the equal partners who all practising designers. There is sometimes collaboration between the partners on projects, but they mostly work individually and one of the partners is always in overall control of each project. Their organisational structure resembles a spider’s web with the partners in the centre and working closely with the other staff. This allows for speedy decisions but can cause problems if the partners are inefficient.

Wolff Olins was founded in 1965, and is also, one of the most well known design companies in the world. Wolff Olins is primarily focused on corporate branding. Staff are grouped by job function and work on multiple projects simultaneously. There are three separate departments who work on separate floors (project managers, designers and consultants). All departments are interdependent. The organisation of work is task based. Value is placed on expertise and talent. Individual workers can therefore charge high prices which increases running costs.

The main difference between the two studios seems to be the delegation of power. Both are effective and both fit accordingly for the way each runs.

to.pitch.or.not.to.pitch - a forgotten shakespearean tale

It has been said that ‘the best things in life are free’.

It has also been said that you ‘don’t get anything for nothing’

So which is true?

Free pitching. Good idea or not?

I can’t say that I am with either polarity. I don’t entirely agree with it, and yet, I find myself unable to disregard it completely. We live in such a technologically advanced world, almost everyone owns or has access to a computer, and a rather startling majority of these, if not superbly technically proficient, can use Photoshop or some other imaging program to a basic degree. Even my own mother can cut out an image and put some text on it. I am constantly awed and surprised by the amount of talent out there, sites such a deviantart are inspirational as well as a humbling to me, reminding me just how competitive this area has become.

It is easy to turn to free pitching to attain that much revered leg up in the GD world. Older accomplished designers find it easy to sneer at it, but free pitching is a tempting route for the young and passionate looking for anything and anywhere to channel their creativity. When your young, perhaps still in school, entering these sort of things to kill free time and perhaps win something in the process, it seems harmless. A bit of fun, with the lure of a something nice at the end. But I see the other side, too, how it devalues the Graphic Design industry and most likely costs jobs. After all that I find myself sitting on the fence about the whole thing.

And I think I like it there.

http://archive.agda.com.au/dm/studios/FreeP.html

Paolo- last blog

First of all I must say that has been a great and intense experience and I have learn a lot during the year. About this post I would probably recommend everyone to subscribe to a magazine. There are many good ones out there and sometimes they also come out with good cd full of useful fonts, photoshop brushes and other. They are reach of inspiration and they offer you a window to see what is going on out there in the graphic industry. I haven`t done it yet but I think I will, maybe just for next year. I always find a lot of inspiration in movies I just wanna recommend  a few that i really liked: FIGHT CLUB - DONNIE DARKO - LOCATIONS FOR AMELIE (LE FABULEUX DESTIN D`AMELIE POULAN better watching it in French with subtitles), GOOD WILL HUNTING, CLOVERFIELD, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, SCHOOL OF ROCK.

JOSH - free pitching

FREE PITCHING

Free pitching is a interesting topic because it is so easy to have a half half opinion.
Im so torn because in one point i agree with free pitching.
If i was an employee i would use the free pitching idea, that way i would be getting a few different ideas and methods with out having to pay for hours spent with each design. Also this could work in my benefit if i was to make the design job open to anyone that wanted to free pitch. i would also be getting alot of new and fresh ideas, something i may not get if i was using the same old employees overtime.
Although if i was the employer i dont think free pitching is very fair because not only are you not receiving any money for your ideas, your also competing for your ideas to even be used in the first place.
BUT if i was one of these people entering my ideas to a company i wasn't part of, i could receive future employment from doing so.

so in conclusion i can still see it from both sides.

:)

Jade's last blog for 2008

For this last blog I just wanted to share with you guys two of my favourite illustrators. I get a lot of inspiration from these two ladies and have been looking at their work (old and new) all year round.

BEC WINNEL (MY CHARLIE GIRL) http://www.mycharliegirl.com/work.html#






KELLY SMITH http://www.birdyandme.com.au/