"...There are, however, some designers and even clients who insist that the public deserve and will respond to much higher standards in graphics. They are convinced, as Charlie Chaplin was convinced, that the best way to entertain the public is to first entertain oneself."
Heard some days ago a song on ProFM’s Alternative station (ProFM is one of the corniest main stream radios in Romania, but its secondary stations are quite enjoyable, mostly because there’s no advertising and no annoying djs—make that no djs at all). It got me hooked, sounded very nice, so I checked to see who was playing. Aneb. Never heard of them. Google? Nada. Hmmm. Weird. Looked some more, managed to find Aneb’s Myspace.
To my surprise, Aneb is an 18-year-old romanian highschooler, Horatiu. He makes music in his spare time, always happy to work with new people. He doesn’t have an album out yet, but he certainly has some great material. Hopefully, we’ll be hearing a lot from him in the future.
Be sure to listen to Oltul la vale feat. Georgiana. The song played these days on ProFM Alternative is Heaven Lost feat. Ghost.
PvP just made my day, coming up with one of the funniest strips ever (I’m talking about designers’ kind of fun, of course). Not to mention true. Many times I amuse myself realising how many of my shopping choices are influenced by packaging and typography—whoa, that olive oil bottle uses Rotis for the ingredients, look how tiny and legible it is! :)).
For quite a while now I’ve been dreaming, hoping, pondering, trying to come up with some sort of solution to force myself in working and doing more of the stuff that I like, that I chose to do for the rest of my life—design. ‘Unfortunately’, we’re not as lucky as Michelangelo, Durer or other masters, we have internet, instant messaging, tv and so on, so many things that distract us from what we truly like to do.
Eventually, a solution came up: to give myself a “non-comercial” theme to think and design, every two weeks or so. Worried as I was that I wouldn’t be serious enough to keep doing it on a regular basis, I managed to convince some of my friends to join in, hoping that if I wouldn’t design for my eyes only, at least for them I would :) (I still remember very fondly my college years when I’d work and wait unpatiently for the end of the semester when everybody would show their projects—competing with them was the true school).
So, this is it: Design Challenge.
A flickr account where every two weeks all the members post their work on the previously given theme. Working only for the sheer pleasure of challenging wits and talent.
Here’s a glimpse of how the set with the works looks:
Since all the members are romanian, comments are not in english. But you’ll get the general idea, trust me. Enjoy :)