Student Awards

Finished my final assignment today, not sure why I was procrastinating so much since it only took me about half an hour tops. After I was finished that, I received an email from my program coordinator reminding me (the whole class actually) to submit some pieces to the RGD Student Awards. This is a chance to win a $1000.00 bursary and a free registration to this year's Design Thinkers. The award winner will also be featured in an upcoming edition of Applied Arts. Hopefully I'll be writing about this in the future and I'll be letting you know I've won... keep your fingers crossed :)

The Future

The future is almost upon me. April 29th will mark the last day of my 3 year program at Cambrian College. I have been diligently pursuing job listings and submitting resumés. I didn't realize that finding a job is just like having one already. So many phone calls, emails, follow-up emails, resumé submissions, portfolio submissions and so on and so forth and etc... Today, however, was a bonus. I was contacted by a local committee to attend a meeting for a building project that is being undertaken. Out of that meeting I have received a media package, including a website, (just mock-ups at this point), to put together for presentation at the end of May. I'm really excited about this, it may not be my first freelance gig, but it is certainly my highest profile piece to date. Wish me luck!

I leave you with an Ad I did for a local art community.

Procrastination

Procrastination: to delay or postpone action; to put off doing something; 


This is what I am doing today. Only two small projects left to do for my final year of Graphic Design and I am finding an endless supply of “other” things to do... I guess I'm at the point now where I just don't want to do anything. A mini-break if you will. What I have been doing though, is looking intensely at a multitude of sites posting jobs. I currently have 18 resumés out there in the wilds of the job market so hopefully I'm able to trap something. So for the next... however long it takes... I'll be working on those last two projects. I'll keep you posted :) 

The Infinite Possibilities

Over my 3 years of schooling I have been asked time and again what do Graphic Designers do? My usual quip back is, “What don't Graphic Designers do?” That is to say, we do so many different things in our pursuit of communication for our clients. Indeed if I was to distill into one word everything that we do in our field, it would be COMMUNICATE. Our sole responsibility is to communicate the message given to us by our clients in the best possible way to suit their needs. 

I leave you with one of my poster pieces for my Creative Thesis Project - my thesis took on the current social issue of literacy in Canada, and how it can and does affect everyone. 

CBC Books - The future is now: Harnessing our green tech past for a cleaner present

CBC Books - The future is now: Harnessing our green tech past for a cleaner present

Sounds like a very interesting book, I'll have to pick up a copy. I do believe that the “saying” that this reviewer is referring to is not actually a saying at all, but a biblical reference made by King Solomon over three-thousand years ago. It reads as follows and has very sound ideals, even for today:

Ecclesiastes 1

The Vanity of Life

¹ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
² “ Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher;

“ Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
³ What profit has a man from all his labor
In which he toils under the sun?
⁴ One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
But the earth abides forever.
⁵ The sun also rises, and the sun goes down,
And hastens to the place where it arose.
⁶ The wind goes toward the south,
And turns around to the north;
The wind whirls about continually,
And comes again on its circuit.
⁷ All the rivers run into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full;
To the place from which the rivers come,
There they return again.
⁸ All things are full of labor;
Man cannot express it.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.
⁹ That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.
¹⁰ Is there anything of which it may be said,

“ See, this is new”?
It has already been in ancient times before us.
¹¹ There is no remembrance of former things,
Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
By those who will come after.

Not that I'm trying to preach here by any means, I'm merely quoting the more accurate account of what the reviewer was alluding to. This is also a similar idea that was brought out by Adrian Shaughnessy in this year's "Lateral Thinkers" conference. Adrian alluded to how designers of today are really not creating any new content, and therefore everyone is “copying” at some level since we all make our choices in design based on things that have already been done. I don't think that he was meaning that there are not new ways of making things look, but merely that the content of what we are designing has probably already been addressed. Anyway, all that is to say that this new book “Powering the Dream” will probably be an interesting read.

SpiekerBlog » Blog Archive » Nokia sans character

SpiekerBlog » Blog Archive » Nokia sans character

Just goes to show you that clients don't know what they have until it's gone... and sometimes not even then. Beautiful typeface by Erik Spiekermann. If Nokia doesn't want it anymore I'll sure take it :)

Long Day

Definitely a lot of travelling done today. 100km to the Doctors office, then 120km from where my Doctor's office is to the city my school is in. Then 96km from my school back home, so as I said, a lot of travelling. Finally got all the quirks worked out of my website at www.timricher.com I tightened up the lines, and added some more links, there will be more changes to come as I decide what to add to it and change out my portfolio pieces with new, non-school projects. Check back often, both here and there. 


Can't remember if I'd posted this piece before or not. It's a wallpaper I made for my son a couple of years ago.

Almost time

It's almost time, only 4 more days of class left and I'll be finished school for good. I've started the long, hard process of finding a job now, currently I have 11 resumés out and have contacted 16 business' in total. I know I will get something I just hope it's in the design field right away. There is a great feeling of accomplishment, 403 days of school finished (yes I counted), I should achieve the distinction of Cambrian Scholar as well (maintained an average GPA of over 3.89 for the duration of the program). The future is looking very very good. 

I leave you with this awesome rendition of a SteamPunk Yoda, from Bjorn Hurri a favorite illustrator of mine.

New site

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have a new site up now www.timricher.com go check it out.