I ran across a neat exercise for finding how you spend your time.
Here's mine:
The typical Mon-Thurs for me.
Yeah, that's pretty sobering.
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My creative process: Get given a project Long stretch of apparently no work Snarl at people who interrupt my thinking Blindingly fast making-of-stuff Show finished project to client You see the problem, I'm sure. ... My process can make a methodical person's head explode from frustration that I am not doing things the way they would; which is to say, The One True Way to Do Things.
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I'd slide the finished, framed pictures into their huge plastic bags, sealing them, writing the customer's name on masking tape on my hand, then sticking it to the package I'd made, then hefting the package into the series of slots where it'd go until the customer came for it. ... For you kids out there, instead of doing your layouts in Quark or InDesign, you used to have to take your copy to the typographer, who'd type it up on a typesetter, then hand you the photostat to cut out and paste up onto your board.
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Though, I did envy them a bit -- I was the only one who was also an art director, so the entirety of their jobs were about a third of what I do. ... This might not sound like much, but when you're frantically looking for where room 1200 is in a building you're not familiar with, it's damn handy.
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One to change the lightbulb, and thirty-nine to stand around at Mullah's coffeehouse and talk about how much better the lightbulbs were at Agoura. From Rands in Repose, a post on jargon-as-fashion , with this gem: " Future Proofing -- Architecting a product so that it accounts for things that don't yet exist and can't be predicted."
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