Hey! I don’t have much time to chat about today’s comic — other than it is based on real-life experiences and will continue this week on Wednesday and possibly Friday. Happy Monday everyone. Enjoy —
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Hey! I don’t have much time to chat about today’s comic — other than it is based on real-life experiences and will continue this week on Wednesday and possibly Friday. Happy Monday everyone. Enjoy —
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Hey everyone. I wrote a whole post for this strip and the Movable Type, our (non-webcomics friendly) publishing platform was kind enough to delete it. So whatever. Here’s a recap:
Two “middle-panel-as-screenshot” strips in a row was totally by accident
I am excited about Star Trek
The art on this strip kind of sucks because I’m illustrating on Donovan’s GIGANTOR iMac today, and you almost have to re-learn how to draw on a Wacom at that size.
Word up. Have a great weekend everybody!
I was driving home with my wife yesterday and the sheer metrics of the swine flu “pandemic” hit me in a way that rarely hits anyone living outside the world of graphic design: as an info-graphic. Sadly, today’s comic — while accurate to my rounded mathematic calculations and official projected U.S. population — only visually demonstrates 1/384th of our total population. Bandwidth and Photoshop’s ridiculous limitation to 600,000 pixels prevented me from drilling this thing out to an actual comparison.
As it stands we’re at about 6,000 pixels tall today, so imagine this chart 100 times taller, then understand that would require more than 500,000 more pixels to finish the chart off properly. In other words: it would be a very, very big chart.
At screen resolution, 72 dpi, the chart would be almost 15,000 inches tall, which is equal to 1,250 feet, filled with all green “people” and one pink “pig.”
For your easy comparison, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall. So soak that in for a second before you start canceling your lunch plans.
In my twitter-life I often seek out advice for my real, independent-professional-designer life in the form of articles and lists linked and retweeted up the mountain that must surely contain the sweet nectar of the divine — new business. Often I am shocked at how valueless these lists are. Not that they all suffer from some massive dearth of actual content, but that the content they share usually has little to do with how to find new clients, or establishing new connections, and falls more along the lines of: 1. You should get some new clients, and 2. You need to establish new connections. As helpful as a 12-year-old may find that advice, to struggling indies it hold little value. But the Twitterverse loves its lists, and so my search goes on.
Then there are advice columns from the über-stars, or mega-designers, or, I don’t know, graphic design world-devourers where the advice seems to be like that of a parent admonishing their child for doing the exact same thing they themselves once did all the time. Like they’ve forgotten what it means to be starting out. It’s easy, they say, just invite the VPs of Marketing from the top four employers in your city to golf at your private country club. Oh yes, I forgot, it is that easy. How silly of us all.
Almost forgot — big thanks to superstar designer Drew Davies for essentially writing this strip in an iChat last Friday and Prescott Perez-Fox for our design megastar’s nom de guerre.
Hey. Logo contests are bad alright? And by bad I mean totally awesome bad. I’ve always felt like there’s some serious untapped potential for mayhem in those, and I feel it’s our duty as professional designer to… wait, I just said “dooty.” LOLZ.
Sorry for a low count on comics this week — my brother was even giving me a hard time about my launch schedule yesterday — planning to get back on track next week. And, for you Reflex Blue Show listeners, we just lined up a great interview for next week’s show that we’re really excited about. Not sure HOW we managed it (wicked-awesome pun win!!), but be sure you tune next Thursday!
Update: If you want to know how I really feel, check out this article on Vossome.com.