Portfolio Update

The portfolio has had its most major overhaul in its history. Gone are the magazine elements, and the thing has had a slick new makeover. While I liked the magazine theme, it just isn't that professional, and I'm applying for jobs with the big boys, they might not like that sort of thing. To have a look at what's in the folio, go to the set on Flickr.

I have had the book produced with a thing called Blurb, you can order a copy of it if you want! Not too sure if that link works, let me know if it doesnt. It's kinda pricey, but totally worth the money!

IESSO

PS. After much feedback, I've been coerced into restarting the blog, so watch this space!

THE HOME STRETCH

I'VE GOT AN INTERVIEW WITH A STUDIO ON MONDAY and my portfolio is on it's way to being finished. Things might come up Milhouse. MIGHT! I'm really nervous about the job and wore out from working solid for a week and half without sleep, food and any relaxation. But it's nearly over. Can't wait....

Wish me luck!

IESSO



ALSO, like in the last folio I have a designer profile comparing me to another designer, last time it was the asshole Neville Brody*, but this time the victim is the legendary Saul Bass. Dermo and me wrote it after being awake all night watching movies and me working. Here's a transcript:

SAUL BASS
you verti–go girlfriend!
(design legend, inventor of vertigo (the sickness not the film), YR sauce enthusiast.)

date of birth: may 08 19dickety0
place of birth: new york, usa
first design job: a fish menu, ironically consisting solely of bass.
largest client: marlon brando. he just out–weighed alfred hitchock by a few pounds. he used to go to that same seafood restaurant... also, I used to work for al pacino, but there was a lot of overtime involved­ just when I thought I was out, he pulled me back in!
if you could design with anyone or any studio, who would it be? i’d love to work with the YR sauce company, ‘mmm... that’s good sauce!’
client wish list: hmmm... let’s see... alfred hitchcock! oh no wait...
i’ve already done him!!!!!!
lifelong dream: i’d really love to own my very own bottle or YR.
biggest design mistake: borrowing a bottle or YR and spilling the whole thing. it’s a tough business, but there’s no use crying over spilt YR... (but i did)
any final words? don’t ever work for marlon brando, he’ll have you doing JWT holiday brochures for his damn tahitian island! ‘mmm... that’s good tahitian.’
PS. I love YR!

ELLIOTT SCOTT
that elliott, he’s so scott right now!
(full–time hat wearer, private dancer (dancin’ for money), cloning enthusiast.)

date of birth: 07 may, 198awesome (3)
place of birth: los angeles, usa
first design job: the bauhaus. yeah, you heard, the bauhaus! i basically invented design as we know it today. but of course gropius, or ‘the grope’, as we called him took all the credit. ‘mmm... that’s good gropin’!’
largest client: well, i did this lame stuff for some stupid sauce company, WK i think it was called. man, that was baaad sauce... there this one time, right, when me and my buddy woogie knocked over this kids bottle o’ sauce, and it like broke and stuff. and he was all like crying and shit. it was totally awesome!!!!
if you could design with anyone or any studio, who would it be? i would clone myself six times and work with ‘the elliotts!’ if you want a job done properly, you’ve got to do it yourselves.
client wish list: middle–aged, horny, investors from japan on shore leave
who know how to show a private dancer (such as myself) a good time.
lifelong dream: i am other people’s lifelong dreams.
biggest design mistake: if it isn’t something that is broken, then there is no need to repair it.
any final words? saul bass = suck ass.

IESS 'mmm... that's good acronyming' O

PS. *I ain't got anything against Neville Brody.
PPS. YR sauce is this.

THE MORNING LIGHT (NOT A METAPHOR)

I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT WORKING ON MY FOLIO. It feels like it's last year or something. Anyway this is the first working all nighter I've pulled in a year. It's been a productive one though, entirely worthwhile. I did a lot of work last night. And not crappy work either, stuff that hopefully I'll be proud of once I wake up tomorrow after a nights sleep. I guess that's the real test. But at this time of day I'm pretty pleased. I wasn't just laying out the work I'd already done, but fixing up and adding to the old stuff. Here's a small sample of what I did last night. (Admittedly there is something from the other day, but not counting that it's all new, or at least revised and updated...

IESSO

FORT POLIO (UPDATED 22/10)

WORKING ON SOME STUFF FOR MY FOLIO (like the Mobii + Glow IDs), so in the next few weeks there will be more of my work. This poster is a make-up-brief as a way of getting some more color into my folio. At the moment I have for posters in there, all brown. So I needed to get some color in. I'm working on an Adidas campaign as well (just another make-up-brief).

Gimme some feedback if you can. And maybe some suggestions too....

IESSO



Here is a sample of the adidas thing I'm doing. It's to celebrate the 35 Year anniversary of 'The Superstar'. So it's a CD-case with some stuff and stuff. Basically I just wanted to try the type. What do _you think?

IESSO

TOUCH-UP

I'M NEARLY DONE WITH MY PORTFOLIO so hopefully I'll be able to print it soon! I can't wait to get it over and done with. As per the image above, I redid the images of the UNG modelling my shirts from the last folio to make it match these illustrations more. But I didnt want it to match too much, so thats why its a bit more cartooney. Anyway I reckon it looks good. And of course that she looks good. Although it was hard to capture her smirking smile and sarcastic gaze but oh well, it's still good...

IESSO

OH CRUD...

I FORGOT TO GO TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT... Which is bad. Oh well. At least I spent the last 7 hours working on these images. Hmmm. They're totally Threadless-like in their limited color pallettes. Maybe I'll submit them. Or at least put them in my folio. I'll do a few more too.

IESSO

FOLI06

I'VE GOT TO GET MY NEW FOLIO READY FOR THE TRIP. I need to make it more accesable, easier to look at at a glance, and easier to update when I do new work. But I want to keep the same feeling, the same intimate relationship between me and my work, and the same amount of fun. It's a difficult balancing act. I want it to be more generic, to grab a larger amount of appeal, but at the same time I need it to remain new and interesting. So I'm a bit stuck.

IESSO

PS. In regards to the stuff for sale, here's how it's being broken down:

LINUS: TV and PS2 (I'm sorry Seiney, Linus did place the first bid, and a higher bid AND he's been a friend for a long time, so I am selling it to him. BUT I wanted to sell it to you for Jason, I hope you can get him something cool. Try Electronics Boutique, they have them for cheap! I've got a game to GIVE you for him, hope theres no hard feelings :-)

SARS: The camera

SARAHS: The speakers

I've still got to sell the bike! Come on peoples it's totally awesome! Y'all know you want it! If I can think of some more crap, I mean 'treasured heirlooms' to sell to you's I'll post it up. Thanks for all your support and strangely promt response. Have you secretly been eyeing my stuff in preparation for this? I'll bet you have? Did you place little markers on the bottom of my stuff to designate who gets what?



PPS. Selling the printer. It's a totally freakin awesome printer that I don't want to sell but I can't really take with me because it's so massive and heavy, but if no-one buys it I will. I'm not reducing the price too much on this one because it's hardly been used, it's still relatively new, under warranty and totally kick-ass and I want it. But if someone wants to buy it they can. I do need the money big-time. But it'll be sad to see it go.

SUPPLIMENTARY MATERIALS

Kat was talking to Sebastian about her folio; he said it was "Okay, I guess". She replied; "Well at least thats better than what you said about Elliott's". He said "Yeah, but he deserved it..."

Ouch. I'm Elliott Scott, hopes and dreams crushed, signing off

PS> Got photos to post up but I left them at the exhibition. Stay tuned for further updates! HUZZAH!

HER FACE SAYS IT ALL

Yesterday was a LONG day. Here's the story. Listen good there might be a pop-quiz after.

I woke up a 6.30am tuesday to go to work. We had meeting with a client about a christmas card we had to design. Got to work for the 10 oclock meeting. It was cancelled. "OOps, forgot to tell you guys", said Sebsatian. Tuesday was our last day to do the folio before it was do, I was in no mood to mess around so i was naturally annoyed. I missed my fashion test because I hadnt studied so I failed the class. Will probably have to repeat it now.Graduating? Probably not till next year. Whatev.

Messed around at work for a bit nothing to do. Needed to go home to print stuff. UNG and her sister were there. We went to my place to use my printer. Got to Helensvale, messed around at the mall, got a nice headache from her sisters talking, she's 15 so I dont mind so much, but still was somewhat grumpy and stressed. UNG took her sister home at 5, I went home to start without her.

UNG arrived at 6.30 and we began working properly.

Printed out my folio and her folio, finally got the printer to print nicely. I already spent close to $1000 on the printer, and another $60 on paper, and $50 on ink, and she bought some more ink and her own paper. But the paper I got didn't work so I had to spend some more money on paper, which had no gaurantee to work! It was catridge paper, feels like cheap rough paper which was perfect for my needs... luckily it worked. But as soon as we started printing the photo inks ran out so we couldnt print high quality! It worked out ok though, so no big deal.

I finished printing around 1am, with UNG having a bit more to print. We took turns in case there was a problem, if we were going down for bad printing, we were going down together! She finsihed at about 2am. All was good, it was looking pretty nice. We were exhausted but generally happy with the work. Time for cutting.

And by cutting we mean the folio, not my finger. Unfortunately I didn't get that memo and sliced a 2mm deep, 12mm long chunk out of my finger. It didn't really hurt. At the time. It didn't bleed either. I freaked out though, in my own little way. For about 1/2 a second I had a little panic attack, stood up, hopped around grabbing my not yet bleeding hand wondering what to do. I got the the bathroom sink, and the bleeding started. Blood was PISSING OUT! It looked like I smashed a bottle of ketchup in the sink. It was soaked in blood. SOAKED! I got some bandages out of the cupboard wrapped it super-f*cking tightly around my entire finger and waited for the bleeding to stop. It didn't. Soaked right through the bandage. I took it off, washed my finger, THE PAIN STARTED. It hurt like f*ck! I'm not talking "Ouch, that smarts", or even "Auuuugggghhh!!!!" but so much pain the world went silent. I couldn't hear anything and if I screamed it was either silent or I couldn't hear it. It hurt. After I pathetically washed it, wrapped it up again with some heavy duty bandage even tighter. And went back to work. By the way, UNG is afraid of blood and stood by the bathroom door with a disgusted screwed up face. It was cute/silly, but kind of annoying cuz I needed her help. Oh well.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 0 HOUR

I tried working for a bit, but was getting tired. Did I mention I didn't eat anything? And that it was about 3am. Well thats what it was. Anyway we worked for a bit more, readying things for the next morning. I was getting dizzy and sleepy what with the bloodloss and the stress and all, but UNG needed to do a bit more work so I tried to stay awake. I couldn't really so I watched TV untill she was ready. She finished her stuff and helped me with my stuff too. She cut all the extra things I was making (so nice of her) WITHOUT cutting herself [I'm banned from stanley knives now] and we went to bed.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 1 HOUR



Or at least that was the plan. We did go to bed, but we didn't get any sleep. And not because of sexy "hooray we're done, let us have wild animal sex to celebrate!" oh no, it was much much work. And a lot less sexy. We didn't sleep because I was in too much pain. I'm telling you, this finger REALLY hurt. I took 3 panadiene forte's (which about 10 times more codeine than normal panadiene [or something like that]) and it didnt help. They make you drowsy too, but I was too scared about wednesday and the work we still had to do, and about my finger getting gangrene from the bandages being too tight. UNG got a few hours of sleep I might have gotten about half an hour. I was feeling really crap trying to sleep and the UNG was hugging me. I can't express how wonderful that felt. I was in so much pain and discomfort and the simple act of touching me and hugging me almost made the pain go away. Still couldn't sleep, but without her I probably would have went insane, started crying and given up long ago. THANK YOU UNG!
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 3 HOURS


'Woke' up at 6.30 to finish working and get ready. We gathered our stuff and left for the 8.10 train. The plan was to get to uni finish binding the folios and hand them in before 10am when they were due. Then I was supposed to go to the city, collect Linus's and hand his in too. None of this happened. I called Linus the night before at 3ish to tell him what happened about my finger and that I'd try to help him but wasn't sure. At 6am I called Will to try to get him to go to the city instead of me. I was worried I was gonna wake him but I didn't really have much choice/concern... luckily I didn't wake him. He was busy, tried Glen. He was awake too and agreed to help (thanks dude!)

Got to uni at 9am, binded the folio and rested untill UNG was ready. Sebastian was asking me all sorts of questions about why I did this or that, and why didn't I do this? I was in NO MOOD to talk. He was complaining about the printing quality, and he was asking why I wouldnt care. Hmmm a finger thats on the verge of falling off?! I don't know.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 4 HOURS

UNG finished her folio at about 11.30, a bit last but we didnt care. What are they gonna do? Not let us graduate cuz we were 1 1/2 hours late?! I think not. Besides. My finger hurt. It still was bleeding. I went into the bathroom to change dressings. BLOOD EVERYWHERE! I wrapped it up with some napkins and tape and we went to the hospital to get it looked at, possibly stitched up.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 9 HOURS

Got to the Mater Hill hospital, which by the way has the dumbest emergency ward location EVER! Its at the top of a hill around the corner, at the back of the hosptial. Nice and conveinient. We nearly passed out walking up the hill from the heat. Not cool. At. All. Anyway walked into emergency, went to the counter and saw the triage nurse (we know what triage is right? Its the assesment of patients based on seriousness of their condition) She classsified my injury as "BLOODY OOZE +++" which may or may not be bad, but it sounded bad. She asked if the cut went to the bone. I didn't think so. I didn't think that was even possible with my amount of pain, it hurt but not THAT bad. I thought a bone cut would be really REALLY bad, so I wasn't sure. I waited about 5minutes to see the doctor, which is not a good thing, it meant I was serious. She looked at the wound, and went to get a second opinion. A second opinion?! That's not a good thing. That means something is bad. My finger was numb. I had nerve damage. It will heal, but not for a few months. No stitches though. Not because I didn't need it, but because after 12 hours of a skin flap there's not much stitches can do. The flap will either fall off or it won't, stitches won't help.

Anyway after she cleaned it with saline solution, wrapped it up properley and gave me a tetnis shot, which don't tickle one bit, in fact they hurt, not then, but later (now, as I'm writing this!) I was feeling woozy. No, not from the blood, I can handle that, but from the heat, the no sleep, the no food, the pain, the stress and the cigarettes I had to dull the pain. I threw up. The doctor said to UNG "He's a bit of a wimp, isn't he?" I resent that. But she fixed my hand so it's ok.

Anyway after that was all done we went back to uni and chillaxed for a bit. Then we left and went to the Roma St gardens to chillax properly. We walked around for AGES trying to find a nice quiet, shady spot away from people. Eventually we did, hung around till 3.30 and parted. I got to Helensvale at 4.30, waited till 5 for the bus and got home. Stayed awake watching a hilarious movie called 'The Hebrew Hammer', which is like a jewish 'Shaft' and feel asleep at 8.30pm. I was awake for 38 hours. And those were the most intense 38 hours of my friggin life. INSANE. In the membrane. Or maybe insane in the brain.

Anyway that's my story. If it was a soap opera that would have taken about 3-4 years to show. And I guess my evil twin would have been in it, but nonetheless, it was utter madness!

IESSO

BELOW: The Mondayne branding. There's the folio, the sample bag and the business cards. There's a few more suprises but you'll have to wait till friday to see them. They're fun and goofy. And it's all about the gimmicks!

A JORB WELL DONE

OK GUYS, I've done my folio, so I promise to stop pestering you with infrequent and boring updates. Instead I'll be returning to the usual crap; me whining, stupid stuff that happens, and my friends acting like idiots. HOORAY

MOBY vs THAT GUY FROM R.E.M.

I only have one more thing to do, and then I'm done with the folio. So luckily it'll be business as usual on the blog again. HOORAY!

IESSO

PS. If you want to read the 'features' of the 'phone' go right ahead, they're quite stupid.

OLD TIMEY

I've been going back over some older work, revising it, redoing it, re...gaurding? it. And I decided to completely start again with the Brisbane Writers Festival. I dunno why really.. I just am. I didn't like the old one, and I removed some stuff from the folio, so it seems fitting that I put in something else, something cool.

And I think this is cool. Shirley _someone will have problems with the typo, but that's to be expected. I like the image anyway, she's got the perfect look on her face. PERFECT! Except its a low-res image and it looks sh*tty up close, so I was considering buying it. Untill I saw the cost; US$175.00, so nevermind.

IESSO



PS. Revised version. Changed the orientation to better suit the MASSIVE amount of text. Also added the brown border to give it a more old-timey retro feel, as well as avoiding stretching the image. And changed the colors to a more faded scheme. And added the logos. So basically I'm procrastinating and avoiding doing the inside section, which has HEAPS of text. And I have no ideas on how to make it all sexy. Any suggestions?

PPS. Her name is Mrs Eaves. The perfect name for a writer, named of course after the font used: Mrs Eaves. What a coincidence?!

SO VERY PREDICTABLE

I was gonna write a post about not taking my meds and it making me crazy (head hurts, dizzy, etc as well as the standard relapse into depression) I'm listening to my iPod now and the playlist is a bunch of songs my ex girlfriend used to play... blah blah blah boo hoo. Anyway I was working on some images that I'm putting into the folio. I spent about 4 hours on the image above, fixing things up, makingg sure colors work all goodly and all that. And when I finished I posted it on the web. BUT instead of saving a different version I (being the complete dumbass that I am) saved over the top! now the image is only 450 pixels wide instead of the needed 2500!!!! AAAAAAAahhhhhhhhh. That is so annoying it hurts my already hurting mind.

I give up. Time to watch TV.

IESSO