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November Rain.

August 25th, 2008

Since K has this up.

I remember sitting about 30 rows away listening to these guys talk. Mark the dates, Save some cash and bring your books to be autographed (yeah right, you groupie!). November 13th-14th, somewhere around Kuala Lumpur.

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Edit*
Okay, for the benifit of Googlers who try really hard to find out whether are the listed heroes below coming down Malaysia or not, I have actually edited this post to help increase traffic a bit. It sounds really cheesy, but, oh well…, I hope somebody appreciates this:

“Andy Altmann of Why Not Associates is coming down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13th-14th November 2008 for a graphic design conference.”

“Neville Brody of Research Studios is coming down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13th-14th November 2008 for a graphic design conference.”

“Vince Frost of Frost Design is coming down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13th-14th November 2008 for a graphic design conference.”

“Wally Olins of Saffron Brand Consultants is coming down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13th-14th November 2008 for a graphic design conference.”

“Simon Dixon & Aporva Baxi of DixonBaxi is coming down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13th-14th November 2008 for a graphic design conference.”

“Paul Hughes of Lava is coming down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13th-14th November 2008 for a graphic design conference.”

Also featuring some other cool designers such as William Harold Wong, Chris Lee & others!

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Fire!

August 22nd, 2008

There was a fire drill at our office premises and a real fire next to it yesterday. No kidding.

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Seek & You Shall Find

August 19th, 2008

I was digging through some old files to recover a certain image for a certain type of project for a certain client. Guess what I found!

I remember sticking these drafts up on the glass door sometime ago and photographing them. As you can see, I had a great time with my limited photography skills. Still one of my favorite projects so far.

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Penguin Great Ideas 3

August 8th, 2008

By now, some of you would have guessed that I’m a Penguin geek.  My collection of Great Ideas (of which some are not displayed here) is not complete but I guess enough to prove the value these books have to me. Do check out their amazing website.

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Inspiration.

August 7th, 2008

This guy is a genius! Original and witty.




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Not so ‘Metal’ anymore.

August 3rd, 2008

Discovered P.R Brown of Bau-Da Design today reading the notorious Revolver magazine; by reading an article on Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist superstar album cover designs. Brown used to do jazz album covers before Mr. Manson hired him. And now, his list of clients include Disturbed, Billy Corgan, Godsmack, etc. I sense that he likes to portray a certain evil using disfigured human faces. Perhaps its sort of like a suggestion of brutality or the edgy violent and evil that could be found in some heavy metal music. See:

This is a clean one but check out Billy’s left hand.Looks like he burned himself or something?

But theres really nothing interesting to admire here but merely done for consumer satisfaction in my opinion. I find it not so ‘metal’ nowadays to put a really brutal evil face on an album cover with brutal bloody knife edge type for the album title. Or perhaps even hire Todd McFarlane for an album cover.

I wonder if Evil Ernie, the face for Iron Maiden for the past 20 years + will help a 15 year old mummy’s boy enjoy Iron Maiden’s music in the year 2020? Die-hards will disagree with me but who likes and cares about Iron Maiden when you can listen to Mariah Carey all day long.

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Holy Hollywood!

August 1st, 2008

I though this year would be boring for movies. Oh, I was wrong:

Bond is definitely a hero for me. I look forward to look at Daniel Craig’s interpretation of Bond. My first on the list.

I guess there is some intelligence in this movie.

I don’t really like Vin Diesel’s voice. I won’t like the storyline. I will hate the script. I’m not going to enjoy the very superhero driven ending. But I think the special effects might be cool. And Mr. Diesel really does kick ass.

This movie is every boy’s dream.

I do want to watch some science fiction movies with perhaps some cool vehicles & stuff…

It’s amazing how Disney + Pixar can made a movie out of rubbish. I’m going to love this one. Thank you Andrew Stanton.

Eddie Murphy teaches me how to talk & understand clients.

The Mummy was the first ever movie I watched in the cinema. I wonder what John Hannah will be up to now…

Ben Siller & Adam Sandler. They can get away with things like this. Amazing.

The poster-art for this movie didn’t look like what I expected Hollywood to portray rock. Unlike the School of Rock entry, Detroit Rock City poster, This poster doesn’t look punk, 80′s metal, heard rock, heavy metal, emo-rock, alternative or grunge. It just feels different to look at a poster like this. I like this poster really.

But was there has been an inconsistancy in the use of typeface for the movie?

My girlfriends nephews will enjoy this and will be talking about it for a period of time. I better get my facts on this movie right.

End it with the Punisher. I expected this to be banned but there has been no news about this so far. Please Mr.Motion Picture Association man or Mrs.Movie Censorship board of Malaysia woman, don’t band this one okay? If not pirated DVD merchants sales will go up.

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