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gripe-ography: Why employers are beating down the dude's door
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Why employers are beating down the dude's door. A good friend of mine is beating the odds against a sucky economy. Without actively pursuing employment, he's had three (3) design firms personally approach him, offering him a job. Many people are having a tough time jumping out of the unemployment line and this happily employed dude gets three (3) out-of-the-blue job offers. How? I don't mean to insult your intelligence with the obvious, but what the hell: The dude knows his craft.
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gripe-ography: February 2011
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Sunday, February 6, 2011. Preparing before the big layoff. It seems that everyone knows somebody (or IS that somebody) who has been laid off. Rumor has it that when a company starts losing money, the first thing to get cut is advertising. Is that a scary wives tale to keep the designers in line? I dunno, but it's worth being prepared for the worst. As a graphic designer, are you ready to simply pick up and go at the first sign of the pink slip? What about the work process? Do I have one of those clever "...
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gripe-ography: August 2010
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Friday, August 20, 2010. Cleaning the house and blue cans. I am at a stopping point in my bathroom remodeling venture. It will resume once our relatives vacate the premises. I put my Bob Villa skills to the test and it is coming out rather well. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but as long as the grout holds the freaking tiles together, I don't care. As my wife and I were getting things in order, she asked me to make a quick sweep of the rooms with the disinfectant spray. It's not that ...
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gripe-ography: Short post: New post coming soon after I clean up this mess
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Saturday, July 31, 2010. Short post: New post coming soon after I clean up this mess. I am in the middle of remodeling the upstairs bathroom. I admit that this is my first big renovation project and I thank God that my brother (who has extensive experience in doing this crapola) is helping me out. I've learned many things while taking this wonderful journey. The main thing is that if you have eczema, wear gloves while handling hardibacker board. My hands look like those of a dried-up zombie. Same Blog, N...
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gripe-ography: Cleaning the house and blue cans
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Friday, August 20, 2010. Cleaning the house and blue cans. I am at a stopping point in my bathroom remodeling venture. It will resume once our relatives vacate the premises. I put my Bob Villa skills to the test and it is coming out rather well. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but as long as the grout holds the freaking tiles together, I don't care. As my wife and I were getting things in order, she asked me to make a quick sweep of the rooms with the disinfectant spray. It's not that ...
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gripe-ography: My first job: Shocked, I was.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010. My first job: Shocked, I was. My first real job was a marketing/graphic design intern position with a local construction company. Like many growing companies, these guys were sick of paying the relatively high prices to outsource their design work. They would spend a pretty penny having someone else put together their project books and print ads. So they decided to bring all their marketing and design in-house.and I was it. Design department? Who was still in school. I worked at ...
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gripe-ography: First year students and my own bad design work
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Sunday, July 4, 2010. First year students and my own bad design work. Along with my lovely wife, I gave a presentation about working as a graphic designer to a lecture hall full of beginning design students. The instructor wanted us to give a small kick in the pants to these guys and let them know how freaking cool it is to be a designer. Well, shoot, that's easy. Right? Many students related to that. Score. Sounds great, eh? Now while this might have been a pleasant eye-opening experience for the studen...
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gripe-ography: Preparing before the big layoff
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Sunday, February 6, 2011. Preparing before the big layoff. It seems that everyone knows somebody (or IS that somebody) who has been laid off. Rumor has it that when a company starts losing money, the first thing to get cut is advertising. Is that a scary wives tale to keep the designers in line? I dunno, but it's worth being prepared for the worst. As a graphic designer, are you ready to simply pick up and go at the first sign of the pink slip? What about the work process? Do I have one of those clever "...
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gripe-ography: September 2010
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Saturday, September 11, 2010. Good and bad design? Good and bad critiques. I spoke with a group of design students at a local community college this past weekend. At the end of the lecture, I talked through a bit of my work which includes a couple slide of which I am not particularly proud. Basically I mix a bit of bad with all my best work so I can talk about "bad design" - something I learned from a past lecture. The students, who were all attempting to digest my thoughts on my very own bad design work...
