Well … I am happy to announce that I am now working for Dundurn under contract until the end of September. So that keeps me happily occupied (and paid) while i pursue my side projects. I have enjoyed interning at Dundurn a great deal, they provided me the freedom to bring forth my own ideas into the big picture while providing me with guidance and training on things I was ultra prepared for. So thank you Dundurn! Oopz… i forgot that I was supposed to leave my trademark with them … I guess I will do so soon enough.
Sorry for the lack of posting … but I still have to deal with the On the Danforth website which will be completed this weekend (so help me…) And I have some new ideas that I will be pursuing. More to come soon enough!
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Alright, so i’ve been busy… not just with hunting for jobs, but also in the midst of drafting a design from scratch for the On the Danforth Magazine website. Which reminds me, if you find yourself along Danforth Avenue in Toronto, drop into one of the stores and pick up the spring issue of On the Danforth. The summer issue will be out in June or July i think. Anyways I am now working on www.onthedanforth.ca , the summer edition of the website. You’ll all have a chance to take a gander once I am done. At the moment I am so busy I can design one page a day, well then again I only have a mere 2 hours to deal with it before I have to hit the hay. I hope I can gather a little more time together as I hope to finish it off for the Launch party, but the way things’re going… nope…doesn’t look like I will. Oh well…
So aside from the website, Dundurn has been great and i’ve had a great number of opportunities. They are the greatest people when it comes to internships in my opinion, of course … i’ve only had pretty much one internship in my life! The other was a work placement so itsI am hoping that I will end up with a job somewhere by the time my internship ends because well … it makes life a whole lot easier and lessen my somewhat difficult financial situation. It is good to see however that my friends and fellow classmates and I are going to tackle the situation together. Some are a more worried than others about the situation, but hopefully we can seek out work for everyone sooner or later. I figure that’s the only way we can survive and thrive in the long-run … well in fact that’s what i think all of humanity should embrace but there goes my optimism and idealism… better stop there.
I will have more info soon… at the moment… i need sleep… ZzzzZzzzZzzzz
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So does that title interest you?
Well let’s see the first thing is that the quote “LIMITS ARE POSSIBILITIES” is really something out of Chip Kidd’s book, The Cheese Monkeys. It is really a look at graphic design more so than anything else. Ironically when people saw this on MSN, a great number messaged me about it. I guess technically, it was effective graphic design… or was it? All I did was capitalize the letters. The words themselves however contradict one another in the same sentence and are opposite sides of the spectrum of thinking. Regardless, after thinking about it … the statement is rather true … it is all in all … based on a person’s perspective. It was an interesting pondering though…
So the past week has been very busy and tiring for me. I wake up at 5am and head down to Union station to get to Dundurn for my internship. They are all such great people and they’ve all been providing me with really great opportunities to learn. Unfortunately I think i caught some sort of cold … and i’m just feeling…icky today.
Oh well … I have done a little bit of work on http://www.ehrencheung.com/ (let me know what you all think)
Hopefully i’ll be in a better state of mind to do some more this long weekend. Dundurn has some great books, I wonder if i’ll be able to read some. I did however have the funny opportunity to announce the arrival of a book from the printer, Mike Filey’s Toronto Sketches 9. A very fascinating book about Toronto’s history … that is if I only had the time to read all of that. I do however enjoy looking at the old photographs of Toronto. Speaking of photographs … the rainy weather reminded me of this photograph that I took while driving along the roads north of Toronto.
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… i don’t get it. Today my friend and I went to play squash and we were accused of taking an extra two dollars from the cashier (which i have to honestly tell everyone, no we didn’t have it, we checked everywhere)… the cashier guy was pretty cool…seemed like a nice person… but in the end … conflict arose… lack of respect shown for one another…and respect lost for one another… all because of a toonie. How pitiful we all have become.
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welcome to the final days of Book and Magazine publishing at Centennial. How does it feel? Really … i have no idea. It’s rather weird. I just finished my final presentation for Book Marketing today. It went well I think… but not as good as I wanted it to. Of course, maybe i just set expectations too high for myself. Usually when I do presentations, there is a high energy level that I output and afterwards I just feel very drained and most people wonder if its really my personality. Well truthfully, it is me, I just use presentations as an excuse to be silly. It is also a way to battle my shyness. In the end, its quite the crazy battle.
Aside from school, I have to work on some side projects that I have intended on for a while… and I still have the web ads for On the Danforth e-magazine to work on.
Well… back to focusing on Dundurn…more news later on that
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i couldn’t think of any other title at that split second! So with the college on strike and all, I now hover abouts doing whatever I want. Good in some ways, bad in others. Some assignments are pretty redundant and to some degree I am losing interest fast unfortunately. My role on the magazine has pretty much come to a halt, it doesn’t seem I need to do a whole lot nor do I want to interfere with other people and their roles. I was thinking maybe a number of us in the class should just revive the magazine we had thought of from the last semester. Screw the copyright that the college imposes, my group actually thought the whole idea up so we would be able to go through with it regardless and it is a nifty idea in my opinion. Oh well… that’s one idea
So an update on the Summit 07 expedition. It seems there are two possible ways to reach the summit of Mt. Washington. One way is to go from a base camp and hike straight up … or we could use a route that would lead us across the top of the peaks of a number of mountains and hike towards Mt. Washington. Either way would be fun! I just wonder which one we should choose… i guess once I get people together we can decide on that then…
So this would be my first third paragraph for this blog thing. More projects to work on! Potentially some new freelance clients too! We shall see… and thus … ends this third paragraph.
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Scrambling to put together my resume and my portfolio before I send off an email to Dundurn. Fun Fun Fun! Hmm… I wish i didn’t get summoned to juror while in school … maybe i’m being punished for deciding not to work for government…haha
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… categorize my posts. I will do that soon enough.
There is a lot of focus these days on Yahoo’s Flickr photo sharing service. I have my reservations about them however, and it is not due to the fact that I support the family owned and operated Smugmug.com (which I still think as a photographer, is much better than the rest). I love the fact that the world has embraced photography and the idea of photography is that much more accessible to nearly everyone. My reservation is the fact that Flickr combined with the revolutionary effect of digital cameras, there is an over-excess amount of photographs floating around.
Perhaps it is because I view photographs in a very “holy grail” kind of way, but on the other hand, there are some things that do not need to be photographed, while others need a little more contemplation than “off the top of the head” perspectives. I am not criticizing or implying that all those who use Flickr perpetuate this act, however photoblogs and photo sharing communities are inadvertantly creating that effect and state of mind. I am all about freedom of expression, however as with all freedoms … there is almost always a need for moderation.
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