too many sweet distractions to work...

yep. there are simply too many sweet distractions for me to concentrate on work! even if it's like the crazy year-end holidays, which doesn't help at all. so anyhoo... i've been leaving many of the work responsibilities to my dependable (most times... haha) fairies and elves. been way too busy to be online either, other than to get work done. sorry cute folks! meeting up with and socialising with some of littleoddforest's most regular clients here in singapore has been pretty awesome, thank you cute peeps for such great times! :) and i've just restocked our shelves over at isetan scotts this morning. so go check it out before we check out from there! 24th dec! ;)

i simply can't can't can't wait!!! for the year-end getawaysssss. you got that right, plural! ;D and for 2009 to be here soooonnnnn!!! can't wait can't wait!!! *jump jump hop hop skip skip* weeee!!! i'm super excited and happy!! although some people (you know who, mao!) are just very stressed. well. everyone copes with new endeavors differently. ha.

but yes. how can i possibly force myself to have the time to be here to put up a post, if there's nothing to bitch about! lol!
http://www.eightyonedesign.co.uk/blog/2008/09/why-does-everyone-think-they-are-a-graphic-designer/
yes.
why on fucking earth does everyone think they are a graphic designer. or "designer" even.
good article. and read the comments too. thanks for sending me this article, meredith! i can't tell you how good it feels to know that there are plenty of people out there reading my heart and mind... i miss those days when we (me and my proper graphic designer friends) have bitching sessions about bad taste and people who think they are such godly designers.i think i am entitled to some ego since my art design degree didn't come cheap. hahahaha go ahead and slap me for my cockiness.

i totally agree that a design education does not mean you are some godly designer either. but like the article states, you have to at least have a certain amount of technical and theoretical knowledge to back up your creative ability (if you had any to begin with). otherwise, it's just going to be good ideas & bad execution, or great execution and stinky poo design!!

i hate it when the exact same people who can't tell a good font from a bad font, a print font from a web font, take on graphic design jobs, perpetuate the bad taste with their bad taste clients, and charge dirt cheap rates. i guess not everyone understands that when you pay peanuts you get monkeys. because they can't tell which is monkey and which is not. urgh. my dad used to be in the timepieces business (watches and clocks), and as a kid, i used to question him on some of his purchases (yes, i might have been opinionated bitch since a kid.), those gawddamn ugly watches! eewww! and his very comical reply was
"dada, there will always be people with bad taste in this world. and we want to earn their money too."
wahahahahhahah!!!

just because you have the moolah to buy photoshop and a macbook pro, does not mean you a graphic designer and are allowed to create atrocities with fonts and images. photoshop is a pixel-based program meant for photos, not vector-based for proper illustrations. don't you just love it how everyone is so photoshoppy nowadays. yes yes yes, we know you have photoshop. but do you know how to use it? dang it.

last week, someone approached yet another friend again this time, who does freelance illustrations, to do some serious graphic design work. and again, i'm so proud that mh is a friend of mine. because he actually rejected the good-paying job offer, telling the client that he is able to do all the illustrations needed for the project, but not the main graphic design and font work as he is not qualified to do it, and recommended another of our friend, a properly trained designer to do the job. even with the client's insistence that he trusts my illustrator's friend good tastes. a gazillion kudos to you, mh! or your principles and integrity :) although i have to agree that you are most probably able to do a good job if you had taken it on ;)

so, the question is, are you a software executer, a graphic/web design prostitute, or a graphic/web designer?

gotta go catch some sun at the pool now! it's been so rainy!! i think i might be growing mould.
*muacks!*


add-on~
oh oh oh! i forgot to give thanks!!!! big big big thanks to all of you super duper awesome peeps who made your way down to fashbash @ cathay and sweated it out there shopping!! well. i know i was sweating. i apologise for the spectacle of me serving your needs while holding on to my hand-held piggy fan. hahahahah
you all made the sweating so worth it though :)))) xoxoxoxo!!