dear minion

Dear Minion, When you've looked healthy all week, calling in sick on a day which just happens to also be the day before: a three-day weekend a three-day weekend which happens to also be the last weekend of prep for your sideline hobby does not impress me. Try it with someone who didn't use to also participate in said hobby. Or, just ask me nicely for the day off ahead of time.

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in which i can neither fall asleep nor work

this year's Daylight Savings day, my body is unconvinced about needing to go to sleep. i've now been trying to sleep, or work, since 7 p.m. -- in spite of being exhausted. even though there are deadlines to meet, and sleep that needs to be had, Rest and Work are both not here. they're on a tropical beach, sunning themselves, and shouting for cabaña boys to bring them more cold beer with limes. the bastards.

i have to leave my house for work in four hours. the rest of the day should be very entertaining.

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design is in the details

Creative directors, art directors, and especially clients will perseverate on details like this, so make sure the details are there.... there's a wall on my attic bedroom with a paint job that'd make a professional painter cringe with horror -- i didn't feel like trying to perch my not inconsiderable weight on a very narrow ledge, just to fill a half-inch gap.... i cook meals like this, which is why i'm a lousy baker -- if the recipe calls for baking something at 500 degrees for 50 minutes, at minute 45, i'll open the oven, look at it, and say, 'ehh, screw it, it's good enough.'

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3 ways to identify a graphic designer

But let's look at what goes into making someone a graphic designer, as opposed to a production artist, or your Aunt Mildred who loves to photoshop birthday hats onto photos of her cats.... They understand line, texture, color, shape, form, value, and size, and how to put them together to achieve contrast, unity, balance, rhythm, movement, and emphasis.... I ask them not to be an intimidating interviewer (though that doesn't hurt); I ask them because I want to weed out the people who are only cut out to be production artists.

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