Well we've been extremely busy lately. You see, we have lots and lots of clients. I'm not boasting, we're at a level where it's not necessarily a good thing.
Lots of them are small: one man bands, start-ups, that kind of thing. On the up side, it means we're dealing with owner/managers who have come to us because of our reputation and who tend to be trusting and make snappy decisions. That combination means projects often get off to a flying start. The problem comes next when we're waiting for more info/material, waiting to arrange photography/illustration and/or organising out-sourced services/supplies - we find ourselves juggling loads of different, small projects. It's really, really time consuming; we don't have accounts staff so do all this stuff ourselves. Consequently, right now, we're stuffed!
That's why I've been struggling, no failing, to find time to blog. But thankfully, I've been forced out of my silence by some rather good news. Actually, very good news indeed.
Thanks almost entirely to the efforts of Chris Murphy (of Fehler, Fällt and the University of Ulster) the Helvetica Film is coming to Belfast. For one night only, on Friday 29th June Gary Hustwit is bringing it up the road from the Dublin screening to introduce it at the University of Ulster. I for one am dead pleased and can't wait.
As I've said before, I'm not aware that I have many local readers but if there's anyone out there who'd like to go: Go, go, go! Register and buy tickets here.
And we've been doing some posters. These are mine. We're going to print the middle one:
Pity, the one on the right is much better.
Posted by: davidthedesigner | 12 June 2007 at 11:31 PM
Nice posters!
Posted by: Ben | 13 June 2007 at 07:47 AM
They’re all great, though if I had to pick one I’d also go for the far right, too, I like its balance and the way the eye is drawn towards the sign, which then provides enough of a hook to read the paragraph text.
I’d be tempted to avoid the middle one, though only because it reminds me a little of anti–smoking campaign posters and I think this association may turn people off it before they bother to look closer. (Unless it’s just me that sees this link.)
Incidentally, does anyone know how to go about obtaining the rights to screen this film? It’d be ace to show this in the Isle of Man, I’m sure most of my designer friends would be up for watching it.
Posted by: ManxStef | 13 June 2007 at 04:26 PM
Thanks for your thoughts Stef. The anti-smoking reference hadn't occured to me but it's a very good point. Although it's one we might just ignore for now as we like the weirdness of the discrete/odd/ambiguous message.
Anyway, you should see the other one! It's brilliant and cunning in the extreme. I'll post it soon.
Regarding showing the film: I'm not sure how you'd go about "getting the rights to show it" at the moment. Gary is basically travelling the world with it. Where he goes, there the film goes too. Not sure if he's letting it out his sight. You can email him through the film's website to start with (that's what we did).
We were lucking in that he happened to be in Dublin so it was just a matter of persuading him to come a hundred miles north to Belfast.
By all accounts he's a top bloke so drop him an email and see what he says. Don't worry if it takes a while for him to reply, he's busy travelling the world!
Good luck.
Posted by: Richard | 13 June 2007 at 05:06 PM
v. nice work.
dare i say i prefer 1 on right too! :0)
Posted by: newtypography | 14 June 2007 at 12:56 PM