He's right, your business card is crap.

que la chingada.....

So I wanted to see all the pictures that we took of our trip to Texas, and all of them got erased somehow. Some dumb camera error. That's really annoying.

Makes me want to dance and dress like that!

Chingon

What inspires me when I start my workday, take a break, or just for fun.

These clowns are hilarious. They're dancing to a song titled Culiquitaca. I have no clue what that word means, but the dance it's something else. I hope people start making their own culiquitaca videos, and send them to it. I'll see if I can get people to do that.

Things that used to inspire me to start my work day.

The world famous Rick Astley

My first Solo Project is a book, it's done and guess what? It arrived today!!

So the first project that I got at my new job was a book titled "What Does Hope Look Like." It's a series of Intaglio prints created by Students at the St. Johnsbury Academy, in Vermont. If you're wondering what intaglio is, look it up and educate yourself. It took a while for me to figure out a layout, and for printing we used blurb.com. This publishing company is a great resource for people who want to create a book, and get one copy printed. The price for ours was 55 bucks, next day shipping. The book arrived today, and I'm pretty happy with the quality, although there are some small mistakes that I have to work on, such as color errors. I wanted a beige color, and I got a light yellow, which is not that bad, but it's not what I wanted. Oh well, we have to proof the heck out of the book, so we can get final ones printed, since this was just a proof to see how blurb prints their book.

From Breakfast Tacos to Waffles - I moved to Vermont

So I began a new adventure. After 3 months of being unemployed, and being turned down from jobs that I was pretty sure I would get, I decided to say "To hell with it, lets do it" I got a job as a freelance designer in Vermont. I wasn't too sure about the move at first, because it's just not my thing, but hey I have a car to pay, and I have to get my priorities straight, so that's why I went for it. I drove from Texas all the way up to Vermont, it tooks 4 days since we stopped, or maybe 3 I forget. It's 2139 miles. I was getting sick of driving, but it was worth it. I got to see Elvis's house and write my name on his wall. Lets not forget about Kate's dad, he flew down to Texas and helped me drive up. I will post more information along with pictures later, once I figure out this whole blog thing out.

Fancy Lucks

So today, I went to Trulucks Restaurant. It's a fancy ass restaurant which specializes on seafood, some steaks, some chicken, and the best bottled water in the world. I went with Austin's Web Superheroes, Marl-man, and his sidekick Beth. It was a good experience from the time I got to the office to meet them. When we left, some loser parked his car about 3 inches from mine, and then another one was behind mine about a couple of inches as well, so it took a couple of turns to finally get it. Carl had his construction vest on, and stopped traffic. So Trulucks was fancy, they gave us a nice presentation on crabs, which was kind of gross, but very good. Then we had a huge dessert. Then towards the end the waitress came and said "Riley wanted to make sure we took care of you" and then got the check, and the balance was $0. We got a free dinner. Why? because the Miner Team is just cool. I'm I cant even type because I'm so stuffed. Ok that's all

You know you're a graphic designer when...

You have bags under your eyes so big you'd have to check them in at Heathrow Airport

You watch the superbowl just for the commercials

You can spot bad typography from 100 yds away

You are pro-facebook because 95% of the myspace accounts burn your retinas

You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes

You are completely immune to subliminal advertising

You look upon a well-designed project with either:
sympathy OR extreme jealousy

Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse

You tell stories of exacto-knife inflicted wounds with grizzled sort of pride

You practically take caffeine intravenously

You have an appreciation for everything unique

You've been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit. You find yourself overcome by Deathlust.

"You find your pulse increase at the sight of a lovely ligature, glasses steam up when an unusually elegant arm, leg, or tail comes in view, and a well-kerned paragraph is apt to make you break into a sweat with excitement."

"You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you buy a CD or DVD for the artwork, even if you have no idea what the actual music or film is like".
(even worse, you don't actually watch or listen to it, just stare at it for hours and hug it in adoration)

"You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you look at the clock and see it's about midnight and think 'I'll go to bed now'... and you actually go to bed about 2-3am".

"You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you need someone else to point out that you're sitting in a room in front of the computer with all the lights off, and haven't noticed"

"...when you know what "kerning" is and you really, really like it."

"... when you wear two [ke] [rn] pins on your bag, and only you know what the mean. To others its probably a band of sorts.."

Forget the boy-wonder and the man of steel; your heroes have names like 'Tibor Kalman', 'Stefan Sagmeister', 'Paul Rand', and 'Paula Scher'.

You don't wear black to look cool, you wear it to hide the gauche.

You have a thing for chairs. You don't know why.

You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD

You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.

You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.

Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure

You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.

You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.

You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn't come.

You're up 'til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.

The hottest dream you ever had was "Trace contour... Find Edges... Pinch... Extrude... Smudge Stick... Motion Blur.... Sprayed Strokes..."

You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.

Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.

The preschool teacher complains your child won't color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet.

Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash

You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a “Too Cool for IE” banner on it.

You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife’s Satin.

You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because "it's the only one where the lower-case g is just right..."

Looking at a menu make you go "hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic" rather than "mmmm, lunch!"

And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture...

You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.

Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.

You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed.

You refer to your privates as "the Magic Wand".

You know that rivers are more than just water.

Your best friends are all employees at the local print shop

The only people who seem to know what you do for a living are other Graphic Designers (ex: Graphic Design? What's that? You'll never be able to make a living being an
artist!)

Kerning and leading on your shopping list actually matters to you, and you don't see a problem with that.

Several South American economies suffer noticeably any time you try to give up coffee, or even cut your consumption of it by half.

You know that "bleeding" doesn't hurt.

when your significant other/ friends have threatened to never speak to you again if you point out one more font to them.

when you know the difference between fuchsia, magenta, and maroon.

If you could go back in time you wouldn't go back to see the rise and fall of civilizations, you'd go back in time to destroy comic sans and papyrus.

You Know You're a Graphic Designer When deciding on the right crop doesn't involve a choice between corn or wheat.

You've considered naming your children things like 'Kern', 'Pica', 'Bézier', and 'Serif'.

You can understand everything on this list.



Credit- Facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2218393664

First time

So there's a first time for everything, and this is my first time writing a blog. About me, well if you meet me at first, you might think that I'm just some shy guy, who's really boring, but about 2 hours later, it's all 100% different. I'm 22, I play soccer in any opportunity I get. I am also a graphic designer who happens to be struggling to find a job because now in days everyone wants you to know web design. There's a difference between a web designer and a graphic designer, but now in days companies do not want to struggle hiring two different people, so they only hire one that's badass at both. In one hand, it's annoying because it's hard to find a job, but on the other, it helps us to become better and push ourselves harder and harder to learn new material, and have more knowledge of the field. We'll see what this year brings us and what our new president B.OB. has to offer (I shook his hand by the way). I'm hoping to get better at designing and hopefully one year from now, I can look back at this entry and say "yeah you kinda sucked last year, but now you're awesome"