The Design Detective

Ugh. Sorry guys. I’ve really been slacking when it comes to work. I’ve just been having too much pleasure and not enough work. Sometimes having a lot of freedom goes to my head. But no more. My New Year’s resolution is to work on the website and blog and pin more stuff waaaaayyyy more often. Like everyday often. So yeah.

Anyway, today I’m going to talk about what I think makes a good design. The #1 thing I think makes a great design is EFFORT. It doesn’t matter if your drawing or painting or whatever turns out different than you expected, if you put a lot of effort into it, it’s the best drawing ever. If you don’t really put your heart into it, it’ll turn out sloppy. Really sloppy. The other important-but-not-as-important rule in good design is doing whatever you want to do. Pour your mind onto it. Don’t think of the paper as just paper, but as a blank slate of imagination. You can do whatever you want with pencil and paper. Whatever you want. You could make your own world with a piece of paper. You can make a table set with the most delicious food you can imagine. ANYTHING.

So, even though it was short, that’s what I think makes a good design. Follow these rules, and you could become the next Picasso. The next Leonardo. The next Michelangelo. Just keep drawing and listening to your mind.

Stay tuned for more blogging and be sure to check out my Pinterest stuff. It’s interesting!!!

-SJP

Happy New Years everybody! SJP here with some new artwork and stuff to post, considering it’s 2014 now. Seems like 2013 flew by fast. First off, I’m going to give you the first piece of artwork, which I think is cool:

It’s supposed to look like a kaleidoscope, and I think it’s cool. The next one is also cool, possibly cooler.

Thanks for taking the time to view this. The Photocopied Santa is still in progress. I’ll probably have a new story tomorrow. I think I have an idea that could solve this case.

STAY TUNED!

-SJP

In the introduction I wrote mere minutes ago, I mentioned a certain cheap gift bag that my dad and I found for ninety-nine cents at Ingles. We actually bought it, if you can believe that. Anyway, I snapped some pictures of it with my cell phone, and got the original pic of the Internet. Here they are. I’m going to get better pictures later, but for now, here are these:

Recognize Mr. Claus? Hint hint: he’s the 60’s mascot for Coca-Cola soda pop. So, yeah. Can you say “cheap copy”?

Here’s a list of reasons why we can tell it’s a rip-off

• Look at the gift in his hand. It’s extremely cheap. I mean, just look. It doesn’t even match the Santa artwork!
• The stars are obviously fake for the same reason as above.
• Why is he randomly holding his hand up?! I mean, come on. It’s so lame it burns.
• He’s smiling rather happily for sitting in a completely dark room with creepy little stars dotting the sky (or is it a ceiling?)
• It looks as though his hands are melting into the gift. What the heck!

And here’s a list of things I’m going to do to finish “The Santa Scam”:

1. Contact Ingles and ask the manager who the manufacturer is
2. Contact the manufacturer and ask who designed the bag.
3. Call the guy who designed the bag.
4. Talk to the guy who designed it and ask if he feels good about ripping off a piece of classic Coke.
5. Ask if he has a portfolio.
6. Post the results on this website.
7. Skip around in the pansies.
8. Ummmmm….. pizza?

STAY TUNED!

~SJP