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!

Apologies to the people of the nation of Australia

Surfers
Originally uploaded by Mondayne

So we've been back here a week and we've managed to offend everyone with our melancholy attitude, our complaining and our comparing everything to London ( and usually favoring it).

Why would we be like that? Aren't we in Australia? People are beautiful, there's great weather, you're close to the beaches? Shouldn't we be really pleased to leave behind the rainy skies of London?

First of all if we were staying in the center of the city things might be different, but we're about 50km from the city. The closest station is about 8km away from us too. We feel a bit trapped here. The buses from the city stop running at 6.30pm. And they only run once every half hour.

We're staying with Soryi's sister and her fiancee, and they've been great to us. I was surprised by their generous hospitality, without them it'd be much worse. But still, compared to where we were in West Hampstead we're pretty isolated.

I'm working on my portfolio right now and it's not going good. I needed some inspiration so I went to the ONLY design book store in the city and they only had old books and a very limited selection. It's really just a normal bookstore with a small, and crowded by hipster students, section.

I did manage to visit my lecturers from uni. That was pretty cool actually, possibly the most exciting thing I've done since being here.


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So why am I missing London? Because London is awesome. It feels like there is always something happening, even if I never go to anything. Brisbane feels like... nothing.

The worse thing about being here is: It feels like we never left. Like the last 2.5 years never happened. They were photographs of other people and a notebook full of tickets from trains and busses we never rode. No memories. No interesting stories. Only a mind wiped clean from being here for a week.

We've moving to Sydney in a few weeks. Soryi said she thinks it'll be good, and I told her I agreed. But I fear it won't be good. I fear that it'll be a disappointment too. What if London was the best place I'll ever live? What if those 2.5 years were the best of my life and now I have nothing to look forward too.

Pretty bleak. And a little over-the-top. Sorry.




So blah. I can't upload photo's onto Flickr untill I move to Sydney. But Singapore was nice, not how I remember (and much more boring) but still alright. Estonia was awesome.

Take care everyone.
IESSO

GOING AWAY

AmAppAirAds on BuzzFeed

I'M NOW a Z-list internet celebrity with my fake AmericanApparelAirlines ads being featured on BuzzFeed. Pretty cool I guess.

10 rules for graphic designers.

Also, I've posted up photos from our more recent adventure in Istanbul. Check out the Flickr page for them.

NO, I'M NOT DEAD

HERE ARE SOME FAKE AD'S that will be in the new version of the portfolio. Wouldn't it be great if American Apparel (clothing store chain) and AmericanAirlines merged? I reckon it would be. And their identity would be easy to do; both are already Helvetica bold!

Also: Miscommunication is the perfect pagent for sexy design chicks. I'd enter, but I don't think I'd do well in the swimsuit category.

Second-to-lastly: I've redone the ol' Chairmans' Maonnaise joke. Not quite sure about this one. I want it to be more 'funny' than 'political', especially since China/Tibet relations are so topical right now.

We're coming home in mid-October, after 2.5 years of being in the British Isles and visiting Singapore for a week.

Looking forward to seeing all my friends in Australia. And will miss everyone over here.

IESSO

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY

Graham is looking at the Sea book...

Patrick: What's that then?
Graham: The Sea Book ...
P: Oh yeah... what's it like?
G: Well it's like "100 different ways to use helvetica"
*LAUGHS*
G: Well, to be fair, it's more like the 2 ways to use helvetica.
*LAUGHTER ALL ROUND!*

IESSO

Check this out: http://www.seadesign.co.uk/

SNOW FUN

WE'RE HAVING A VERY DUMB snowball fight on the cliffs of Buda overlooking the Pest side of the city. ENJOY!


Elliott throwing a snowball at Soryi.


Soryi got me back, but only after 3 attempts.

IESSO

MOVEMBER HAS COME AND GONE

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED! I raised £30 to aid with prostate cancer research. But now the 'tache is all gone, and the beard is coming back.

IESSO

PS. I saw David Walliams from Little Britain today in Covent Garden.

MOVEMBER

ELLIOTT (in saatchi design)IS WILLING TO SHAVE HIS BEARD
AND LEAVE A HORRIBLY UNCOOL MO’IN AID OF PROSTATE CANCER!
BUT I NEED YOU TO SPONSOR ME. £1 MINIMUM WOULD BE NICE.
AND ON TOP OF BEING ABLE TO LAUGH,YOU CAN CHOOSE A RIDICULOUS STYLE!
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW WITH YOUR CHOICE AND PLEDGE AMOUNT:

HaPPy ThaNKsgiving Ya'LL

HaPPy ThaNKsgiving!
Originally uploaded by princessangel

HTGY!
IESSO

Everything is OK

London Olympics Site Fire
Originally uploaded by rgough

You might have heard there was a fire in London and thought the worst. But everything is OK. Soryi is fine too. She can see the smoke though... but we're fine, and there is no sign of it being a terrorist attack.

IESSO

WHAT KIND OF PIE DOES A GHOST LIKE TO EAT?

BOOBERRY! I know, genius. Thanks T-rex
Happy Halloween for yesterday everyone! We didn't do much, other than carve this pumpkin.

IESSO

HOME SWEET HOME updated

Here's some more photo's of Vienna.

And here's the post from the other night:
IT SURE IS GOOD TO BE BACK IN AUSTRALIA. Vienna is pretty cool actually, despite warnings to the contrary. I'm in my hotel room at the moment typing, having forgot my camera cable, so alas, no pictures untill tomorrow. I've only had a few hours to explore, but it has been fun. I've eaten a lot of food too (it's with company money!); goulash with boiled potatoes, weiners with mustard and horseradish and for a snack kasekrainer, which is a spicy sausage filled with pieces of cheese and served with mustard and brown bread! YUM!

IESSO

THAT'S LIKE A MAJOR NEWS NETWORK OR SOMETHING!

A WHILE BACK they put some grass down in Trafalgar Square. It was pretty nice actually. I was lying there reading my book when a reporter interviewed me and took my picture. It was pretty cool. Here's the web article. And here's a photo from my point of view.

Hilariously I purposely said the word 'tactile' because it's a good soundbite!

IESSO

A BELATED BIRTHDAY WISH

IT'S BEEN 3 YEARS SINCE MONDAYNE BLOG WAS STARTED. And it sure has been fun. Well, sort of. I guess in recent times the blog's been waning, and instead of making promises of changing all that, I'm just going to say that I'll update things when I can, or want to. But thank you to everyone for reading over the years. It has been good.

In other news; I'm going to Vienna on monday for business! Just for the day and returning tuesday night, but it should be fun. I'm going all by myself though, so I'm a tad nervous. I have a phrasebook though. And I promise to take a bunch of photo's.

IESSO

WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE OVER THERE?

I'M IN A CONFERENCE CALL TO NEW YORK RIGHT NOW, well, not right now, but a few minutes ago, and in a few minutes from now too. It's pretty cool. The power to speak internationally, without worrying about money, and to be talking someone through a photoshop technique while both of us are doing the same thing at the same time... it's pretty cool. But not really.

IESSO

PS. The people in NYC hilariously sound like and have the exact same speech patterns as my parents, and I'm not really used to people saying my name a lot (as these guys do, as well as my mom) so it's really weird and funny. I'm about to laugh (and/or punch myself in the face because it's really tedious!) as I explain this photoshoppery!

PPS. I totally ripped off Linus's 'A Filter Darkly' technique (version 1) to use in a project. But I changed it enough to claim it as my own. Which is kinda a jerky thing to do, but I was under pressure and didn't realise the scope of the project, and now it's much too late. So thanks Linus! And also, sorry that you won't get paid for it.

THAT'S WHY I CALLED IT MONDAYNE

Oddly there was a marching band downstairs. And whenever something bizarre like this happens to me, I'm the only one there to see it. It was very surreal. I was standing there counting my coins to buy a sandwhich and the walk right up to me and then spin around. It was very insane. Very.



My parents went to Canada years ago and asked for 'Canadian Bacon' (which is different to American bacon bytheway), the reply was that ALL bacon in Canada was Canadian. Similarly Dermo jokes that a Full Irish (breakfast) is just called a 'Full' in Ireland. I always thought that these were funny and jokingly wondering if they just called English Muffins in England 'Muffins'. Which they do.


The iPod touch is amazing. I would like one. I would very much like one.

Lastly; in the UK the term 'Asian' is very strangely applied. Soryi isn't Asian according to British meaning. People from India, Pakistan, Bangledesh, and places including the Middle East are called 'Asian' here. For what USA/Australians call Asian the British call 'Chinese'. And if you're not actually from China then you're called 'Other Chinese ethnicity'. Which is completely insane! Otherwise instead of Chinese they use the term 'Oriental', which I thought was outdated, old-fashioned and a littel racist. Soryi was shocked and appalled.

IESSO

JUSTIFICATION OF MY EXISTENCE

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. Basically because of legal reasons I can't actually show you any work I've done. But what I can show you is a bunch of pixels, showing that I have done work though! In the scramble is a cool brand, including logo, packaging, store design, several styles of ads and two custom typefaces, an identity pitch for a city, a typeface for a bank, guidelines for an investment company, work for a charity, illustrations for a phone manufacturer, bank brochures and a few internal projects including a book, a website and a poster.

All in that? Yes, it is true.

I'm sorry I can't show anything yet though. I'd like to, I really would. But I've signed confidentiality agreements, so I won't discuss anything further. Hopefully it's vague enough to keep me safe, but detailed enough to not just be "doing stuff".

IESSO

STILL SICK, BUT MORE LIKE A CAT NOW

I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT MEANS EITHER. But I'm well enough to be back at work, getting paid, but too sick to work hard enough to earn it. I've got a kidney infection. We both do actually. Dunno, how, when, where, why we got it but we do. And it's totally annoying. Can't eat, constantly feeling overly full, or hungry, and anything we eat doesn't stay for long.

But in other news, Chris Chong will be visiting sunny London in a few weeks. That is gonna be a load of funtimes. And the shall be had by all.

IESSO

ALSO: It's friggin October already? What is up with THAT?!