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July 19, 2004

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[ original post: 9/02 ]

Is there a more optimistic piece of propaganda you could stick under a designer's nose than a "Call for Entries?" All the year's projects spring immediately to mind, dancing circles, doing cartwheels, all saying "pick me." Surely this year's crop will land you some senior design position in Minneapolis or California.

Like most workaday design-types, I quickly fell to earth when I reviewed the fruits of the last twelve months' labor. This was a start-up year for me, returning to idependent status after six years as an agency art director and CD. Most of my projects were small and unsophisticated, with small budgets. But I did do a ton of logos...

I guess the odds were in my favor. So I submitted a few of the better marks to the PRINT regional design annual. Wouldn't you know, it was the yakking sporeboy! 'shroom head that made it in.

Sporeboy pre-dates the anthrax scare by just a few months--it all came out of a pneumonia-induced delerium. Spores factor only incidentally--just a theme really. I had ideas of some kind of Web-facilitated social experiment, but that concept fell victim to 80-hour work weeks. I have tried--and will continue to try--to add bits and pieces when I can.

For now, sporeboy! is as you see it. Kind of my own private soapbox--and judging by the stats, it's very private.

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Posted by sporeboy at July 19, 2004 11:48 PM

July 19, 2004

In Print

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