Justin Cline

I just wanted to post a quick link to a great rant from this week.

The Denver Egotist: All I Want Is A Decent Creative Brief

Amen brother, amen.

This article got me thinking about my own creative brief, and how to make it better suit my needs. I wanted ask you guys out there:

• What are some of the most beneficial questions on your creative briefs?
• Do you have a unique one per the project? Logo design vs Web design, etc…
• Do you custom tailor one to suit your needs? Do mom and pop logo designs get the same brief that full on corporate branding clients get?

I’ve been kicking around making some modular forms to have clients fill out. A constant component with interchangeable parts that pertain to the work. Feel free to comment with your thoughts, I’d love to hear some opinions and insight out there.

Behold! The Spot Gloss Award A.K.A “one great use for Overnight Print’s short run orders.”

A little back-story… A colleague and I were ‘geeking’ out about the spot gloss on the logo of recruiting cards we just did for DEI (ok, I was geeking out, and he was humoring me). And henceforth started using the term ‘spot gloss’ to define little things that get you excited, that few (if any) people around you would appreciate at all.

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Just a quick sneak peek at some commissioned artwork I finally started for a clients tattoo. This is a shot of  more or less the final pencils. I scanned in and printed it out in only cyan at 15% (trying to emulate comic blue lines for inking). We’ll see if it actually helps… it’s so faint anyway it should work fine.

On a side note, I really need to either invest in some good pen nibbs, or I should have printed on some better paper — I’m guessing it’s a combination of the two though. Enjoy! I’ll post up the final once it’s done.

If you don’t have the pleasure of living in Denver, you’ve probably missed the Denver Water campaign. I hate to admit that the first time I took notice of it, I wasn’t cruising the streets… but perusing the pages of a design annual (I’m guessing HOW/Print or Communication Arts). I always love when Denver or Boulder makes it on the design map, but Sukle has knocked this one out of the park!

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Just a quick shout-out, I just got my 2nd order from this site and I’m thrilled with them. I’m really digging this trend of cool shirts being printed up on quality materials. It seems like more and more shirts I come across are being printed on American Apparel tees rather than something in the Haynes Beefy T area. *gag* Plus they have these excellent labels printed in the inside A+ attention to detail. Spot Gloss.

If you haven’t seen Design by Humans, make your way over there and check out their shirts. American Apparel + Amazing Art = 2 thumbs up, way up.

www.designbyhumans.com

P.S. “Spot Gloss” will be explained in an upcoming post, once I get my spot gloss awards in.

I recently stumbled back upon the Behance Network. It’s basically a MySpace/Facebook for designers and other creatives. I’ve really enjoyed that it’s somewhat screened, hopefully this will filter the junk that sites like deviantArt have. While I was taking a look around my new account there, I got lost on a tangent and wound up reading about “The Action Method.”

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Ok, so if I’ve spent more than an hour on a site (or re-visited it 10+ times), I guess I should probably share with everyone else!

I found this site either thanks to a link off from nclud about their new diggs, or maybe somewhere off popurls.com, either way, I love this…

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WOW! I just stumbled upon this little gem. (Thanks David) This is a very cool, very simple, and flexible grid overlay.  Using jQuery, you can set column number, gutter and sub columns in this overlay… and even toggle on and off! Much easier than commenting out code. Check it out at www.gridlayouts.com!

I’m passing this along from it’s original source at Joy Engine. I’ve loved this piece since I first saw it, and it’s really cool to see one of the originals.

“Shepard Fairey, the contemporary artist whose irreverent works have deconstructed the meaning and methods of propaganda, ironically became the creator of one of the most potent political images in recent history - the OBAMA “HOPE” poster. The image found such immediate resonance with Obama supporters that it became ubiquitous throughout the primary campaign and across the web.”

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Here we go… I’m finally getting back to doing some drawing for fun. As I said in a previous post, one of the reasons I started this whole thing was to make myself get into drawing again.

So, here we go.. back to my roots: COMICS!

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