Elbowruminations
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August 21

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11:30am
The basic rules pertaining to chewing gum have always been very straightforward; you chew it and you don’t fall asleep with it in your mouth. If you do happen to break either of these rules, typically the most harm you could do is trigger an emergency haircut.
August 18

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10:30pm
You don’t have to respect designers. You really don’t. The frivolous, superficial productions that designers create are natural to overlook, and even easier to ignore. But whether you know it or not, we’re helping you.
July 31

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1:31pm
How and why should you say “no” to a client? What are a designer’s blindspots when providing project estimates? And at what point should we stop calling ourselves “graphic designers” and just stick to the simplified term “designer”?
July 16

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10:53pm
When I hear the word catalogue, I think of two things: Sears and libraries. Both are notably old-school institutions, and don’t bring to mind spunk, hipness and vigour. Calgary-raised stock photography & typography supplier Veer has pretty much changed all that.
July 10

Elbowruminations imported a note.

10:09pm
If you’ve been on the hunt for a simple, easy-to-customize music player for your website, call off the dogs, because we just found the answer. It’s Yahoo!’s EasyListener, and it just saved you about 30 hours of web research, trial and error and Flash development.
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Elbowruminations wrote at 9:34pm on July 10th, 2008
Norm, the next step is getting your wife to see design the same way you do, too. :)
Norman wrote at 9:43am on July 3rd, 2008
Now everywhere I go I see bad design ... and I have ER to thank for helping me see past it

What do you want from us?

1 post by 1 person. Updated on Jul 10, 2008 at 9:36 PM.

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