50 Reasons Not to Date a Graphic Designer

Laughed my arse off when I saw this, it's so true!
"50 reasons not to date a graphic designer" see it here. (Thanks a bourbon for silva)


An insight into the kind of person I am:
1. They are very weird people.
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.
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
25. Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …
27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
28. They hate Excel.
33. Museums are their second home.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
37. They can´t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.
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.

DIY Industrial Pendant Lamps

I love following websites / blogs, Facebook brought me, just an hour ago, Shelterness' most recent post:
DIY Industrial Pendant Lamps. Love, love, love.

More pics and info on their page.

The Sketchbook Project 2012

I'm in!
Signed up last week to the The Sketchbook Project 2012, see my Profile here.

Just waiting for my sketchbook to arrive so I can crack on!
I'm quite excited, it's been such a long time since I actually did any art. Being a graphic designer is just not the same as pencil to paper. I'll keep you posted with snippets from the sketchbook... once it arrives, just got to be patient!

Still on the Halloween costume search...

How about the Librarian as a costume?

"And here's the most heroic character in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" book. A librarian in a magic library gets turned into an orangutan, but declined any well-meaning attempts to change him back".

From: http://elephantmarch.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

Halloween costume search discovers "The Incredible Plush Discworld"

Browsing the web for Halloween costumes (yes, cutting it a little fine this year).

Thinking of Terry Pratchett's Discworld characters and found:

Brighid Hurtubise and the Incredible Plush Discworld

Daily Illuminator: The Incredible Plush Discworld
Not sure the four of us can exactly go as this, but Discworld awesomeness!