The problem is one's obsequious need to post Content online rapidly exceeds the amount of decent ideas one has, which is a particular blight of professional accounts.
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There is a fundamental oversight in the world of print too prevalent to ignore and I absolutely cannot allow my silence to enable it further.
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There is a fundamental oversight in the world of print too prevalent to ignore and I absolutely cannot allow my silence to enable it further.
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The route itself was perilous, and I don't say that lightly. Cliff tops and sheer drops were the mainstay. I, whilst understanding how wise it would have been to train, did not train at all.
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After sufficiently fuelling myself on a generous buffet lunch of sandwiches and cake (no doubt one of the primary motivations for attending the event) it was time for my presentation.
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You paid good money for your brand guidelines. They look incredibly slick and they auto-brief external designers like me on how to use your brand in the work I create for you. Here's a question - have you actually read them?
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On the final weekend of November a Christmas craft fair and Grotto took place at a local barn. Amongst the seasoned stall holders was I, a blithering interloper stood behind Table 9.
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Three particular patterns that leave me with immeasurable ire each and every time I encounter them have found their way to high prevalence across internet shopping experiences.
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"What is it with you and clocks lately!?" my wife taunted from the doorway.
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I'm consumed by the number of installs this app must have, laying dormant on handsets across the world, waiting for the day their account holders come to mortal peril.
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Birdsong stitches the air and several rabbits nose the leaf litter curiously, completely unphased by my presence. One of the creatures unearths something with a rustle and gingerly deposits it into my outstretched palm.
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Standing under cascades of rich violet and grave baselines whilst holding a mug of tea is definitely a mindset adjuster.
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I've just given back to the local community in a way I've not before. I donated my time and skills to a little project which ran away from me slightly...
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My protests went unheard, so gripped was Barry by his revelation, already marching out the room and puffing himself up in readiness to exude charm all over the innocent bystanders unfortunate enough to get locked onto.
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There was one intermediary relationship however that failed to blossom into something beautiful, but rather something bewildering instead.
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That's when I spotted a tree stump along the fence line. Upon it was something unusual.
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What interests me is a designer's motivation behind sharing, or not sharing, those first pencil noodlings
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When the tide recedes out to the horizon it leaves behind a mile of sandy crags, oceanic litter and infinite rock pools to explore
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Exposure as an asset behaves more like a high-risk investment than a form of currency
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There's none of this asking-if-anyone-minds-if-I-adjust-the-air-con nonsense, I just get stuck in, toggling fenestration
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I've never had a cerebral misfire like this before and I'm confident the coding project was only part of the catalyst for it
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Containing a pub garden in a pint glass felt like a natural fit
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The final devastating straw that unravelled the very fabric of the camel's being
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On more than one occasion meetings I've attended have turned dark and peculiar corners from which there is no going back
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"How's work? Busy?" Honestly, this year, I ran out of different ways to phrase the same response.
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Generally, there was a lot of screaming at the Show, some metaphorical and some actual.
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A high-aspiring dog voiced by Hugh Dennis, professing his weariness of recurring lottery rollovers
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One day in late Autumn 2017 an email dropped into my inbox that was unlike the others that had appeared that day.
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Essentially what I'm saying is we should just pretend it never happened and look ahead to 2018.
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By the time the pursuit of payment went cold it was 2009 and I had taken up camp in a modest little office. Sure, it was triangular shaped and the furniture didn't fit and it had no windows, but it was mine
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The fun part for me is looking through the soft focuses and desaturated filters of this new crop of Office Stock and finding where the fabricated scenes begin to unravel.
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So where do marketers, bloggers, et al get images for their projects anyway? There are three perfect options.
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It's a storage solution first but it's also a dark and foreboding monument to all the creativity pouring from my mind that has nowhere else to go.
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I'm not sure I've ever made such a hasty journey to my office still in my pyjamas.
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Yes I am still wearing my Christmas jumper. Yes that is a paper crown on my head. No I do not want pasta for dinner this evening.
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600 plastic DVD cases when stacked accordingly creates a pile approximately the same size as an average washing machine. I know this because in the loft of my house right now is such a pile.
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Doing my bit for charity alongside Simon Pegg. No fixed brief, no plan of my own, and only a matter of weeks to come up with an original, saleable illustration.
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I trust that, like me, you're suitably full of chocolate selection boxes and sparkling Bucks Fizz, and have rendered yourself beached on your sofa for the foreseeable future.
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There may come a time in your life when you need to draw a wicked cool dinosaur in three dimensions, but your stupid regular 2D pencils aren't up to the task. This was exactly the problem I faced.
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