Cross section of my daily printing responsibilities

I've seen a lot of photos since working here at Paragon. Some are good, some are funny, some are embarrassing, some are try really hard to be creative... they all seem to fit into some type of category. Below are examples from the big three: Good, Bad, Weird as hell.

Just saw an El Camino on a lift kit with a plow on the front.
Alex

Coconut curry with chicken, vegetables, almonds and brown rice. Serve with potato somosas and chutney.

We'll just have to stay alive until this rubberband of our relationshiop comes snapping back and there's a huge explosion of fireworks and youth and flying shit.
Joel

peace and quiet on new year's eve

Sounds nice. Just total fuckin' silence.
Jared

Sounds nice. Just total fuckin' silence.
Jared

Mr. Eaves

I'm stunned...

I want to write about this, but I have no opinion whatsoever. Not yet at least.

My first Adobe tutorials at TCC

Hahaha!! Tonight I found a handful of my first lessons in Photoshop from when I was taking graphic design classes at Terra Community College. I remember opening Photoshop and Pagemaker for the first time on TCC's Mac (I can't remember what type of Mac, but I definitely remember when we upgraded to the G3 iMac). I saved all of my files on 3.5" floppy discs at the time, and when we got the G3's I had absolutely no idea what to do with the brand new zip drives that came installed on them. I remember think to myself, that fat slot is the future! I remember being required to buy a zip disc for class. I marched over to the book store and was stunned to find they cost $25 to $30. But I remember the trade-off was that they could hold a shit-ton of information. I still have my old zip discs in my drawer beside me, as I type this. I'd love to go back through the rest of my old files... some of which were last modified in 2002. Eventually I'd like to archive all of the images I've ever created... I have nearly everything. It will take days and days of scanning, but the payoff would be having a good home for all the hard work and passion I put into my early design work.

Sheezus criminy, that coffee is good now that I'm making it properly.

Jared

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

Kate and I will be attending the lecture this Thursday.

If you give me a lever and a place to stand, I can move the world.
Archimedes of Syracuse

He calls it the lady-getter

Not only is he the best dancer in pretty much the whole word, but he's occasionally a pretty good graphic designer on the side. Once in a while he couldn't care less about graphic design (see photo)

The three brothers set sail once again

Turns out I'll be designing more material for my friend Brad. I'm pretty excited. This one was just for starters ;)

I completely agree. My identity as a graphic designer needs a refresh, so I've been tooling around with typefaces, and have been thinking of DIN from the start. T-Star is my second consideration. I'm pretty much in love with it, especially the mono-spaced counterpart. I'm considering purchasing an entire family, but I'm still looking for other families that also tell the truth.

Died Young Stayed Pretty

I saw this movie last night at a screening by AIGA Detroit. At first glance, it seems to speak about a glossed over design subculture. At second glance, it seemed overly self-conscious, not sure where it was heading, or what it really wanted to say. Many of the designers didn't have anything interesting to say about their passion for poster making, but rather opted to make painful jokes, say 'Fuck' repeatedly and get lost in their own banter. I was pretty disappointed. If I hadn't already known who Dan Ibera or Art Chantry were, I would have walked away still not knowing. I think it had a lot to do with the editing of the film. The beginning conversation about the overused Octopus imagery was an excellent start, and I was hooked. It went downhill from there.