Monday, October 27, 2008

Oct. 27, 1946: And Now a Few Words From Our Sponsor

1946

Ads on tv were $9 dollars!!!!
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1027?npu=1&mbid=yhp

so art directors/copy writers were paid 50 cents probably...

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008

DJs+ Graphic Designer

Actress/Actors becoming singers
Singers becoming actress/actor

DJs becoming Graphic Designers
Graphic Designers becoming DJs <---Shepard Fairey goes by the name of DJ Diabetic. Plays at La Cita sometimes.


I came across DJ Them Jeans at cinespace.
Pretty good DJ. I see he designs alot of his Flyers/Posters. Some of his inspirations are from the 60s - 80s.
So i did some research and found that he is a big fan of SO MUCH PILE UP, its a blog about graphic designs from the 60s-80s.

Music always motivates me to design.
What kind of music motivates you?

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Stressed much?



Designing for a small department can be stressful at times.
Dealing with difficult people. Fighting off designer's block, etc.
Those are some that i have encounter since getting my own office to be
put in charge of graphics.

Couples time i have turn to the book above to remedy the headaches.

" Do the obvious, then throw it out. " ---Glenn Mitsui Principal, Glenn Mitsui Design

This sounds much like my professor at CSULA.

" sketch out all your ideas.....what youre doing is flushing out all the bad ideas. "