A Truly Ace logo design is due to feature in the new Harper Collins ‘Logolicious’ book this year! This following on from the success of winning a place in ‘Market Smart’ in 2008! (Read all about it).

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A few days ago I was harping on about receiving really really boring postal and emailed CVs from students wanting either job or work experience placements.

Expressing wonderment as to why on earth I was receiving sheets of white paper with black writing all over them; no attempt at ‘design flair’ in their application/CV and a complete absence of portfolio to show me either.

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Yes, I know it’s not Ebay, but I’m afraid ‘needs must’ … You may have read pre-Christmas that I was fortunate enough to win a beautiful HP Netbook, well it finally arrived last week

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I’ve had about five applications through the door, not to mention the emailed applications. Applications for jobs sometimes (sorry I don’t have a job for you!) but also applications for work experience placement from students. Those coming though the post are mainly for work placement.

Now work experience placement I’m actually interested in and I’ve twice now had students in. It could be useful for me to have some fresh eyes in the office looking at projects this summer, but when I’m getting several offers I want to pick the person with the best attitude and if I’m shooting from the hip with total honesty, I also want to pick the best designer.

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First of all the music on this website is cool, but wait until you start playing with the interactive stuff. GENIUS!

Honestly, just keep clicking to go to the next scene, make sure you drag fully in both directions with your mouse when you are in a scene and have fun, it’s awesome! This has got to be the most innovative website I’ve ever seen.

In October I blogged in excitement about some t-shirt designs I created for highly successful Dallas fashion brand Katydid Collection, and even got in a right tizz about the thought of Jennifer Aniston wearing one (well, they did mail her one, the very least she could do is show some semblence of blinkin’ gratitude and wear it … oh yes and then get photographed in it also.)

Well, I have exciting news ….
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A few months ago I described the research and the design process for the Olympian Mindset brand identity project.

I also recently uploaded some photos of their stationery designs (the blog directly before this one).
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You may remember (if anyone is following this blog that is …. echo …echo … echo..) me talking about the Olympian Mindset identity design project, which I was very pleased with the outcome of.

Part of the project involved stationery design and this was designed and printed pre-Christmas, it’s only now (read about my Christmas eye infection saga!) I’ve found time to show you the results…. it’s been crazy hectic at work this week and last as well.
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Got lots to say when passing on your details? Why squeeze your message onto just a double sided flat business card when you can so easily have folded?

There are pro’s and con’s for this option of course, but if you feel like you just need to say a lot its a way of achieving that without ruining the aesthetics of your business card with squashed unreadable text rammed edge to edge.
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Been getting arty with my camera in the garden round the office over last 2 weeks… few more pics….

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