THAT QUICK BROWN FOX

WHAT A RASCAL.
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NICE ONE

Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.

NICELY DONE, nicely read.
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WHY? WHY NOT!?

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COOKING WITH JABBA, LOLZ

NICE animation starring JJB and somehow remains likeable. Cute cameo by Indy too!
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DEAR EVERYONE, WE DO WE NOT HAVE ONE OF THESE?

IT SEEMS LIKE it could possibly do a lot of good. And by possibly, I mean certainly. And by good, I mean, seriously, why is this not more popular? Or enforced globally? Is there some sort of conspiracy or something?


In other news, ask your mother!

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HONK

BBC Knowledge - Honk If You're Human from Sean Pecknold on Vimeo.

YOU WILL WATCH THIS TWICE

I DON'T speak French, but I don't think that affects viewing.
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WEIRD FACTS PUT TO A CATCHY TUNE

MORE WEIRD: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than the pyramids being built.
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AGDA

Chris and I picked up two awards for our newspaper "This Year I Will Try Not To" at the 2010 AGDA awards held in sunny Brisbane. We entered into three categories and got Self Promotion and Promotion of the Creative Industry, as well as finalist in art direction. Not too bad.

Soryi and I are up in Brisbane this weekend visiting her family as well. Which is always nice.



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COOLEST PHOTO OF ELLIOTT EVER

CHRIS took this photo of me. I like it.
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NICE

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BEST SIMPSONS TITLES I'VE SEEN

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SELF-AWARE IRONING

SO THEY SAY that a trend is over when it devolves into self-parody and referencing itself. So what's next? I'm too uncool to know, but maybe someone can tell me? Obviously that 90's wave is back, but that seems isolated to the under 24's set, what are the late 20's-early 30's types going to do?

Has our time as the cool kids expired? I'd say yes, but what do we do? Shop at Gap, not with that horrible logo?

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SNACK RHYMES WITH KNACK.

I think I've mentioned it before but: I used to have a crush on Wendy. It's her red hair. Yep.
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DEAR, um... SPAIN? THANK YOU??

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

Weird. IESSO

WASTING TIME

WANT TO SEE SOME PHOTOS OF ME taken at work? If you've scrolled down to here already, you already have. How cool is that?
20's, 80's, 60's, 70's?

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HATER'S GONNA HATE

So we're getting some negative feedback from our publication. Here's some of my favourite criticisms:

• Love the sentiment behind 'This Year I Will Try Not To' - though I can't help but feel more pursuaded by it if the designers behind this interesting little publication weren't so trendy themselves.. (Clinton Duncan, on Australian In Front)

• This year I will try not to... spell check? (Stuffee, on Australian In Front)

• Mixed feelings about this. Like the idea and some of the examples made me smile – but it feels a bit hypocritical: the muted colour palette, the ‘making of’ vimeo video, the product photography, the condensed sans serif type, the selling of a limited signed booklet… they kind of feel to me like things that could’ve been included in the project themselves. Am I over-cynical? Or is it intentionally ironic? (Luke Tonge, on FormFiftyFive)

• I taste of the mood boring. (Juliano Domingues, on Ideafixa, translated from Portuguese)

• Pra only to justify. I did not find without grace the idea, but the conception. I find that he had been made of exaggerated form, caricata, would be more legal. But the proper conception of the idea, passes a air of “superiority”, and this is place... (Advan Shumiski, on Ideafixa, translated from Portuguese)

And a nice one:
• It was a true nerdy designer moment of hysteric laughter when I came across the project “This year I will try not to” by Elliott Scott and Christopher Doyle. I guess you can call it a contract from two frustrated designers. I think we should all put our signatures on this one and agree with these guys. Super funny! (Inspiration Lab)

And this one, which could be either?
• Simply just bear in mind it’s all in your imagination what a person may achieve and how fast (Alysa Mccreless, on ChangeTheThought)

So, there you go. Generally negative comments.
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THIS YEAR I WILL TRY NOT TO BE A SMUG, ARROGANT BASTARD (UPDATED)

Made it onto Creative Review's blog, as well as Swiss Miss and Quipsologies.







WE MADE IT ONTO A FEW BLOGS, namely Form Fifty Five and FFFFound! And a bunch people love it, and bunch of people hate it! It's great!



Also, Soryi and my desk made it on there as well. Oh, the irony!

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SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION

SO, that newspaper Chris Doyle (of guidelines fame) and I made about design trends and the wank that goes along with it, has now been produced. And they're available for sale. But be quick, there's only 1000 and they're going quick!

Go here to have a look.

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PS. Check out the Favicon on the site too.

FUNNY

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Jon Hamm from Between Two Ferns