I am doing a very important art project, for school. & before you switch the page. It is very important & might have a great deal to do with my future endeavors.
Please read.
I need people for this project. It's both something wonderful & hard to achieve in such little time i have to do this project.
Specifically, people who've had near death experience's. Thus, the title.
I have a set of questions i'd need you to answer [nothing terribley hard or long]
& most importantly put on video. I'll elaborate more one on one [via e-mail.] & if you no longer have any interest after that,that's completely fine of course.
I'll need you to record a decent video of yourself of you explaining the answers to the few questions. All revolving around your near death experiance of course.
Please, if you have any relative story or interest in helping just respond to this post or e-mail me back at blahblahblah42670@yahoo.com.
I really appreciate it.
Really really.
I know it's something weird to ask but it's for the sake of a students art project. I need this before January starts but just e-mail me for instructions & general elaboration on this.
I'll send you the video of the completed project in the end.
That's all i can offer, That and my extreme gratitude.
Thank you, Linda Marcos.

I manage to screw up this relatively good day by sleeping

I was suppose to meet Mr. Wilson Go, the guy who played Peter's dad, today.
I don't know why but it was all set in my mind the until today that is. When I came home at 12. I had 2 hours to kill and I SLEPT. What the hell was I fucking thinking?!

I woke up at 6, had a good dinner, checked my phone, which I freaking left at the other roomed covered up by hundreds of pillows. TO see this:

"You screw up my schedule at the busiest time of the year, and you won't even pick up your phone. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

Goddamn, I totally fucking forgot. and to think I had it on my alarm schedule.

What's worse, he even texted me that he'll be late, where he was waiting, everything every step of the way, and this is what i fraking do to him? I'd rather piss Carlo off than piss him off because he is a good kind man, one of the best we've worked with and certainly one of the most professional.

I tried texting and called so many times, but he never picked up. I guess I deserve that.
For what its worth, I really didn't mean for this to happen. It was entirely my fucking fault.

I am really really sorry.

So, my freelancing book is en-route, but I have a billing question I just thought of that I'd appreciate any advice..

I am billing a nonprofit, which I know means I can't charge them sales tax. I do get charged income tax on this though.. Is it customary to work a proportionate amount of your tax estimates into your billing somehow? Sorry if this is a stupid question, just curious how other people deal with this.

But for my other clients, should I be charging them tax? Am I going to get taxed for this somehow that I don't know about? I've only ever worked with nonprofits so this hasn't ever come up before, but I've had a few this year now. I will be charged taxes on my income..should I be adding this future charge to my statements, or figuring it into my charges in the first place? What do other people do?

Thanks!

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This is insane. All I could think of is you.


     You were in my dream. It was a bad dream but you're presence made it all worthwhile.
     You were the first thing I remembered when I woke up.
     You made me laugh at the ridiculous impossibility of what transpired between us.
     You made me laugh at the ridiculousness of all that is happening.
     You made me sleep with our conversation in my mind.
     You made me read a book wondering whether we've read the same books.
     You got me amazed at how comfy I was talking to you.
     You got me more amazed of the fact that you were the one who called me.
     You got me to go out with my friends wishing I'd somehow bump into you along the way. 
     You got me eating with my friends thinking of what might happen if I went out with you instead.
     You got me gazing at the stars, wondering whether you gaze at them too.
     You got me to watch a movie thinking of what it would be like if I watched it with you instead.
     You had me going out of the movie wondering what awesome discussion we might have. 
     You had me walking to the car pretending you were right there with me.
     You had me hoping you'd tap my shoulders & introduce yourself while I was waiting for the lift.
     You made me hop into the car thinking what if you were real. Would you ever ask me out?
     You had me wishing to hear from you soon, when I got back home
     You got me hoping to hear from you when I walked into my room, even if it's too soon.
     You had me telling myself that maybe talking to you again would be too soon.
     You made me turned on my mac hoping you'd be online.
     You made me look at my phone thinking that maybe I should be the one to make the move now.
     You had me staring at your name, wishing that the next bleep my phone makes would be you.
     You had me jumping into the cyberspace hoping that I'd bump into you.
     You had me jumping into cyberspace hoping I'll get rid these insane thoughts.
     You made me hate myself for having these thoughts.
     I finally got the courage to message you, hoping that you'd come back.
     I finally got the courage to make the first move, but I beginning to think of it as a momentary lapse of judgment...
           
     ...Which terribly reminds me of you all over again.

You were so real to me, stranger; so impossibly real that I just let my guard down and for the first time, let myself feel things. I still couldn't believe you went from fiction to reality. You are like Harold Crick, and I, Karen Eiffel. You wouldn't believe the jitters I felt when you came knocking on my door. You wouldn't believe the fear and anxiety I felt  when I answered your call.

But most of all, I couldn't believe this whole thing is happening. You have turned me into a deadly platonic fictional romance novelist. You have made the Grinch's heart grow three sizes yesterday.

Have I gone mad? This can not be happening.

Worse of all, it is and it all feels so real right now, I don't care if I hate myself for liking it. I don't care anymore if I am going mad. I was mad before, but now, I'm mad in an entirely different light.

I don't want you to stop making me mad.

Make me mad, stranger. Keep making me mad.

Sincerely,

Strange x

PS. Yes, the night is young and so are we.

I'm sure most of you have done some kind of 'free' design work, whether it be for a friend or a cause. My question is, have you ever had one of those jobs become so demanding that it seems you're being used? If so, what's the best way to go about cutting ties without offending anyone and burning bridges?

I've done a lot of work recently for someone who is very, very indecisive and manic in what they want. I've had to do many different versions of things and I've even brought a photographer friend of mine into it. Now, we're just too weary of the whole situation to continue. I need to know how to excuse myself without making any enemies.

I don't have InDesign, just to get that out of the way ;)

So I need to use a table in Illustrator. I'll need to edit the text and edit the table (margins etc). I found a webpage that sais you can copy/paste tables from Word into Illustrator but it definitely is not working - what it pastes is rows of this:
I@C'"%L"(.$;;%D+#:%/@:.%M@3"
etc.

Is there a way to make an editable table in Illustrator, or another program that's not InDesign (I KNOW I should be using InDesign but it's not installed on this computer. Either is PageMaker) - or a way to do in Illustrator? Or just tell me what I'm doing wrong copy/pasting with Word.

Thank you!!

So I'm finally jumping on the bandwagon (or at least testing the waters). I am working on a website and would like to include a twitter feed right on the page. Anybody have suggestions on the best way to do it? Or some tutorial sites that work?

The other element I would like to include is something I'm seeing on many websites. I'm not sure how to google for it. It's a small bar that sometimes says "Share" and has the twitter, Blog, LJ, and facebook icons on it that allows people to easily find the company on social networking sites. I'm not even sure what you would call it?

Help?

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Hello all,

I am supposed to send a bunch of logos in DXF format to a guy who's going to use a router to cut them in wood. I was told to export to DXF from Illustrator and check a box that says "plines"... I'm not finding anything like that, and he couldn't give me any more information, so I was wondering if any of you have had experience with this and can tell me what's going on? Googling isn't getting me anywhere and I looked in the memories but couldn't find anything there either. I already sent one batch of files and was told I hadn't saved it out right, and apparently it was the "plines" thing that was the problem.

I did make sure all the logos were 1-color, but I am sort of out of my depth here...

Edited to add: My research is slowly leading me to believe that Illustrator will convert bezier curves to splines if you just export to dxf, while the software our people are using requires polylines instead of splines. So. Anyone know how to convert bezier curves directly to polylines? I find lots of results for going the other direction...

So I'm an undergrad graphic design student and one of the things in my Final Critique that my prof told me was that my designs seemed unfinished to him, does anyone have any links where I can look at how elements are used in a creative way and to create a more finished design? I feel like I'm putting all this effort and the end grade for each individual project is decent but the final grade hasn't budged since Intro.
Thanks!

Edit: Here are my designs from the semester: http://www.strangedaysthese.com/fall2009designs

Design 1: Design a Web Banner for Mediabistro's Unbeige Blog.
Design 2: Design a Music Poster for the All Points West New Jersey Music Festival
Design 3 a,b: Research a Typeface time period, "Post Modern", "Art Deco", "Modernism"
Design 4: Design a Classic Novel...
Design 5: Create a letterform logo using your initials

I apologize for the quality of the images my school server isn't connecting for some reason and all of these are on there.
The class was typography and the main thing he said that they looked unfinished need to work on composition and angles.

Hi there - I have a client who just hired me to design a custom photo book of his mother's 60th Birthday Party images. He doesnt want to get a regular photo book that you can order from flickr or iphoto. He wants something higher quality and has the $$ to spend on it. Does anyone have any recommendations for super high quality photo book printing companies online? I found one that seems pretty good but would like some recommendations from folks that have actually used some. And I will be designing this in indesign and sending them the files so I need one that accepts files (most have those online page layout programs).

Thanks so much!

Hi,

I'm currently a Graphic Design grad student, and I would like to make a mini studio in my bedroom. I have a pretty spacious bedroom, and I'm pretty much just working on a little dining room table. It's cramped, and I need space to design, do production stuff, etc.

Does anyone have any suggestions on making my wee bedroom into a decent workspace? Furniture, knick knacks, shelving, etc? Photos would be lovely too! Thanks so much.

Hi Everyone,

I am making my first graphic design geared resume! Thank you to everyone who has helped me on my portfolio. You can check it out now with some of the changes. NOTE: It is still in progress!!!

Anyway, I thought I would post some good links to graphic design resume articles.

30 Artistic and Creative Resumes
These are kind of crazy and sometimes ridiculous. I don't know if these resumes actually got their foot into the door. I don't know. Has anyone made an unconventional resumes and it got you the job? By unconventional.. I mean unhorizontal content and not 8.5 by 11!

36 Beautiful Resume Ideas that Work:
38 More Beautiful Resumes Ideas that Work:
Good collections of resumes

The 20 Most Creative Resumes I've seen in a Long Time:
Some Overlaps of the first link, sorry

24 Great Examples of Non-Conventional Resumes:
So fun to look at, right?

How to Create a Great Web Design and CV?
Smashing Magazine usually has great stuff. There's like 20 resumes with the same information. It's called the Stevenson Challenge.

Now, questions to all you graphic designers of livejournal:

I've noticed that a lot of these resumes keep their job descriptions in the experience area very succinct. Example: This resume has kept each description to under like 5 or 6 words. Is that good? Should I try to do the same?

For graphic design, how much do we have to worry about getting past Human Resources? I am thinking about doing something a little creative, but I want to know what my limits are.

Also, lots of the resumes I've seen have five categories: employment, experience, education, skills, and sometimes interests. And well, awards if they have any. Does any one think there are more important categories?

Hum, I am out of questions. Feel free to add more questions and maybe we can help each other.

I'm putting together an email for a company whose main typeface is Trade Gothic Bold Condensed #20. Their branding is really sparse, and the typeface is a big part of their overall identity, so I need to get it as spot on as possible.

I've had this problem with them before, and it's time that I need to figure out how to resolve it. When they use the type, in all of the flat images I have from them, the type weight is a little bit lighter than when I use it. When I work with the actual font, it is slightly heavier

(See this image link. The top is their flat version: the bottom is my version using the font)

This is the case in Photoshop CS4 (no matter which type rendering settings I use: smooth, strong, etc.) and it's also the case in Illustrator CS4. Have you run into this?

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!

I am new to this community and I'm really excited to get some input from everyone. I am a film student who is coming over to the graphic design side. I would like to get into illustration and animation. It's hard to say... there's so much out there to do it scares me!!! I really enjoy art, installation, and architecture. I don't really know what I want to. I'm spending my last semester in college trying to discover a path.

Anyways, enough about me... please check out my portfolio and tell me what you think.

Some questions to get the ball rolling:
Is it too messy and unclear as to what this portfolio is? Should I separate art and design?
Does it need more color?
What particular pieces are not strong?
Does the organization make sense?

Thank you in advance.