Breaking it in…
Sep6
So for some reason I find myself a little more hesitant to post personal happenings and anecdotes on this blog. Maybe it’s because it’s all new and shiny. Maybe it’s because snippets of my latest posts are viewable on my main website, which I’ve directed a lot of potential clients to. Maybe I’m still a little nostalgic about my old blog. Regardless, I think what’s needed here is a certain level of comfortableness, so that you, dear reader, can get to know me better, and hopefully, I you.
“Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.”
So this past weekend was a bit of a shit. On top of a bunch of monetary issues that arose, my computer, a 6 month old iMac, decided it would refuse to boot up. I spent a day on the phone with Apple who graciously helped out even though I was more than past the allocated 90 days of free tech support (I stupidly didn’t purchase the Apple Care Protection Plan, although I may do so (soon as I can afford it)). They were definitely helpful, but ultimately it was the humble Google search that proved most helpful. A bunch of other Apple users encountered similar problems, and it was their hashing it out on online forums that was my saving grace. I ended up having to remove a RAM chip and reinstall OS X (after 6 or so unsuccessful attempts), and finally at 2am on Saturday night, the bastard booted up. It’s currently running on half the RAM, but thank the good lord Vishnu that all my day-tuh is safe. If ever there was a wake-up call to back up my shit, this was it. I wanna Time Machine all my stuff, but I need to partition my external HD first, which I don’t think I can do without re-formatting it, right? So I need to dump a few hundred gig of stuff from that onto something else. Hmm…
Anyway, enough geeky nonsense (for now).
I have a couple of larger blog posts planned about some technicalities of drawing and design. Will aim to put those together shortly.
In the crueltime (even more current than meantime), here’s a sweet compilation of close-up magic by David Copperfield set to Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”. As one YouTube user puts it:
“The work he does with his hands is so elegant… his hands make me swoon!”
Beauregarde’s Ink Products
Aug6
It’s no secret to those who followed my old blog that I sometimes like to invent make-believe companies and design logos for them. In fact, a certain percentage of the logos on the Identity Design page of my website are, in fact, “faux”, as the French would say.
So tonight, instead of working on the logos I have pending for real clients, I invented another make-believe business and designed a logo for it. Nothing too extravagant, but I think this comes off looking somewhat prestigious (due in part to the name which I borrowed from a certain book about a certain chocolate factory):
Thoughts?
How about you, dear reader? Can you come up with an interesting sounding company name that I can logo-ize? You don’t need to specify what the company does, but that helps. Please leave your ideas at the door and kindly leave without making a mess. Thankyou.
Who is Shiggy?
Shiggy is Joe Sciglitano, Aussie illustrator & designer.