Coming up for air Written on April 8, 2010, by fuzzdecay.
It’s been a crazy couple of months.
Work picked up pretty significantly. I’ve been scrambling with my freelance clients and at my day job. Just when it started slowing down, I got a call that my aunt died. This just pushed me behind again. I feel like I’m clawing my way to the surface just often [...]
Downtime Written on December 17, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
One of the great things about working in a design firm is that the work is pretty seasonal. It’s busy like hell at the beginning and end of the year, and there’s pretty much nothing going on in the spring/summer, unless you’re lucky like I am and have a catalog that’s released 4 times a [...]
Belated Halloween shenanigans Written on November 13, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
Halloween is a huge holiday for me, but November is notoriously busy because of people needing shit designed for the holidays, so I’m never really timely about posting about it. However, due to a Crape Myrtle tree’s roots growing into our plumbing system and the subsequent fix that is going to require a wall being [...]
The office moved. Written on October 7, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
The office moved last week. We’ve gone from a dark little cave to a bright, echo-y hall of douchebaggery. I never thought I would miss working in the cave that completely blocked all means of cellular communication.
I am one of three designers that did not get an office. This is still a step up for [...]
Stock photo lolz Written on September 2, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
I started working on xmas themed ads in August. Ugh.
We have a client that has a large “worship” market, that they believe is only christian although that is not the case. They always want to really jesus-up the mailers and ads they do, eventhough a pretty large chunk of their mailing list are synagogues. So [...]
does fuzzdecay give you diarrhea? Written on July 30, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
Two people have legitimately found my page by searching “do wendy’s frosty’s give you diarrhea?” I find this perplexing, unfortunate, and hilarious all at once. I shared this information on my twitter which auto-updates my facebook status. This was probably a bad idea. I now have these additional fecal themed searches:
do wendy’s frosty’s give you [...]
Syfy channel rebrand. Written on July 22, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
This post brought to you by me being bored and poking around The Skinny.
So the Scifi channel has rebranded to “Syfy”. I would like to jump on the bandwagon and say that this was a poor move. It’s way too web 2.0/trendy of a name, especially when the old one wasn’t dated. Are they trying [...]
Catalog: complete. Written on July 22, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
The catalog that has been owning me for the past month is complete. Mechanicals made and uploaded to the press at 11:20, our deadline was noon. Although the client was seemingly trying very hard to get that to not happen. Not only did we get one day to make any “final tweaks” they had to [...]
Helvetica was an unimaginative choice. Written on July 18, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
I’m always concerned when I get thrust into an art directing position. Not because I’m concerned with my ability to perform the job, but because i’m so snarky and have such high standards. I’ve been working on a way to work the Design Police Visual Enforcement Kit into my everyday life, in a way which [...]
Wendy’s frosty fail. Written on July 15, 2009, by fuzzdecay.
I would like to preface this with my distaste for introducing non-chocolate flavors of Frosty. Frosties are supposed to be chocolate, and that is all. Not vanilla, not a part of a shake, not some odd blizzard-esque concoction, but chocolate. Which for some reason arouses a great thirst whenever I have one, like they’re full [...]