umm...

To quote my brother, Spencer Cree, “Thats some high quality stuff you are building there Microsoft. Not.”

Also, you can probably tell that the scan is screwed up because i had to stitch the two pages together. I need a large format scanner. Wer my sponsors at?? Microsoft??

at first, it seemed nice. i like linen. i printed my business cards on pink linen once. or is it laid?

First problem, wtf is the name of the contest / what is it for? 365 50 books / 50 covers competitions. doesn’t make sense to me.

ok page two. this is the other side of the piece when it is closed. now i’m thinking this is a contest for book covers but then what is the 365 part. still don’t get it.

ok...

dumb

i like the simplicity. all these solids seem like a waste of ink tho. what is the contest for again?

this is what it looks when you lift up the page above. mastercard commercial? its like they chose not to put $0 because that would have been toooo similar. either that or they are making every effort to make this turd completely incomprehensible.

kind of hard to understand how it opens. photos would have been better.

if you could read the text, it would say “enter this contest because this organization is so elite that people will worship you for having won this award and you will probably never have to work again”

more or less.

more yellow

i finally figured out after going to the site that this direct mailer is advertising for two different contests. 1.AIGA 365 2. 50 books / 50 covers

also, as an obvious aside, though they make such a big deal about the prize not being about money, there is still a $55 entrance fee.

prolly cost $55 to print each one of these horrendous fliers.

well, BCS is pretty much jessica’s and my new favorite place. i suspect because it is so much like Champaign-Urbana, that we felt at home there.

we met so many cool people. i call it the ST (small town) mentality.

i admire the men who put the event together for their ambition and drive. DesignCamp was much more organized than the BarCamp we attended this summer in austin.

neither jessica nor i have been doing much graphic design lately. i picked up a couple web design jobs last month, and it was so refreshing to get to just design for once.

and as i went into DesignCamp, i was most anticipating the discussions about design. to again, even if just for one day, to eat, drink, and breathe graphic design.

but i think i am realizing more and more that i just don’t care that much about graphic design anymore.

don’t get me wrong; i care about design. but i think about it more holistically. as a mentality that drives everything i do.

not just branding.

is the graphic design of this blog important? yes. but what is more important is the design of my entire online presence.

and those are the conversations i am more interested in having.