50 reasons not to date a Graphic Designer

1. They are very weird people.
2. There are billions of them in the world, like colors on the screen of your computer.
3. They will analyse conversations in layers.
4. You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA.
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
6. They hate each other.
7. You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
8. They cant change a light bulb or without making a sketch.
9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.
10. They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.
11. They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.
12. You never know if it is really an original or a copy.
13. They make collages with your photos.
14. They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.
15. They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.
16. They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.
17. They ask your opinion about everything but  they do whatever they want.
18. Everything is left justified, right or center unless they arrive late.
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
20. They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.
21. You can not decorate the house without consulting them.
22. They steal street signs.
23. Always carry their hands painted with something.
24. They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.
25. Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …
26. When arguing, you will be nicknamed like the OSX spinning wheel (not affectionately)
27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
28. They hate Excel.
29. They read comics.
30. They want to save the world only with a poster.
31. You will spend the day brainstorming.
32. On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.
33. Museums are their second home.
34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
36. They listen to music you have never heard of.
37. They can´t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.
38. They read rare books: stories of children, Semiotics …
39. When you are going to tell you something, everyone has read it in their facebook and twitter.
40. They have own iPods before you knew they existed.
41. The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
42. They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.
43. They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.
44. You will never understand their gifts.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.
46. You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming “When is the deadline?”
47. They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
48. They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs.
49. They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.
50. They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.


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The Royal Stalker

For the Self Initiated 3, myself and two of my partners have been looking at The Royal Wedding. We discovered that the Buckingham Palace receives over 10,000 letters from the mentally unstable Royal stalkers each year, some of them believe that they can offer the Royal family some advice or that they have a meaningful relationship with them as well as believing that they feel threatened by the Royal family. Due to the enormous amount, many of them were told to stay at home during the Royal Wedding. We decided to make an installation, which demonstrates a potential room of one of these stalkers. We created a fictional character who's name is Martha Wilson and who is obsessed with Prince William, believing that it is her who he will marry. Therefore she wants to get rid of Kate, we tried to show this by cutting Kate's faces out from all the newspapers and printouts that we've put on the wall as well as crossing her name out etc. This installation was created to highlight the fine line between the Royal stalkers and the general public. Almost every detail of the wedding day was available to the public, which demonstrates that the public and media were very close from showing the obsessive stalker behaviour, however for them this was acceptable on the day.

Impatience, Lookalikes and The Royal Wedding

William & Kate a little impatient for their Wedding night?

Also You have to check these two videos out if you haven't already.

First one is for the T-Mobile campaign.. just brilliant! I must admit first time i watched it i actually thought it was really the Royal family.. Gullible me.

 And this one, I just love 'Kate's' face there.

Alison Jackson never fails with the lookalikes does she.

Right, now more on a serious note, The Wedding was just beautiful today.. and i have to mention Catherine's dress.. just amazing! Sarah Burton did her job well. Kate also has chosen a dress by Sarah Burton for the evening party as well which is just as stunning and delicate.

Also, I went to Westminster Abbey last night to interview people queuing for the Royal Wedding, therefore I will add some pictures of the camping madness during the weekend as well as some of the interviews which a few were a little shocking! 

Have a good long weekend peeps

The not so planned outcome - More Pictures from Zenit

So heres a few more pictures from Portugal as well as one of the big moon (19th march 2011) and one of me. All of them came out a bit different to what I planned as (long story short) I kind of ruined the film while taking it out of the camera as well as having few other problems with it.. yes silly me. Im still happy with some of the outcome, I must admit at first I get a bit annoyed/upset when something like this happens however, its kind of exciting when looking at the developed prints as its so unexpected how they came out.

Anyway, hope all of you are having a great weekend, Happy Easter.

Inspiration is everything

A little bit of my careers management notes. 
We were given a talk from the Peepshow Collective, which I really enjoyed as it's not everyday that you get to listen to a few amazing designers talking about their work and how they got to where they are now. They were giving us few ideas about which paths we can choose to take after we graduate as well as how to improve our portfolios and get some real life work experience in the industry. Some of you will probably find the notes a bit confusing as its basically in two languages, and yes I myself still find it a bit weird that this is what I do sometimes


Definitely have a look at their website if you haven't already http://www.peepshow.org.uk/

The Charming Portugal

Got my photos from Portugal developed and here are a few that I took with Zenit. 

I will add more soon from Diana Mini, Dslr and more Zenit which I accidentally ruined the film but few really cool ones came out!

I think I said this to nearly everyone by now, however I need to mention it here as well how amazing, unique and absolutely beautiful Portugal/Algarve is! When I looked at the buildings I felt like Im in one of my imagined places where everything looks unreal, especially in The Old Town nearly all the buildings are white and so similar, its almost like a theme that is not allowed to be changed or broken if that makes sense. The beaches which I could lye on, walk over and look at for as long as I could are stunning with gold sand, crystalline water and astonishing rock formations with the surrounding caves are amazing and I just cant imagine anyone not enjoying it as much as we did!

Parents Ideals?

One of the ideas for the Paul Arden - Legacy exhibition.

The quote from Paul Ardens book "It's not how good you are, It's how good you want to be" somehow got me thinking the opposite and how often you hear parents talking about their kids (sometimes even babies) with the high expectations of whom they want them to be in the future, if the parents are successful they expect their kids to be just as good if not better, but then it makes perfect sense coz doesn't every parent want whats best for their children? 

Ps. Sorry I haven't been very active here lately, everything has been kind of crazy and only just got back from Portugal on friday! (was pretty awesome!) I'll put some photos up once I get them developed! But now I need to stop the holiday mood that I'm in and get on with some work.