Archive for February, 2009

LESS IS MORE
Or: The Art of Designing Your Own Business Card

(Good example #1)
A business or calling card is an extension of yourself. This is the one bit of you that people have to remember you by. First impressions are important but a lasting impression will get you the business or attention that you desire. It’s a big responsibility, but worry not. The following tips will make designing your business card easier.
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Carmine Magazine: What’s your favorite piece you’ve ever done? (Please provide a picture)
Invenus: No favorites, no sleep till favorites. I like the one of the girl on the floor, though. I really like the one of the rain window, too. I think I like rain window more.

CM: If you could merge any two artist’s styles into your own which would you choose?
I.V.: I’d like Marilyn Manson’s ability to fill a role and Salvador Dali’s ability to have a mustache. Maybe da Vinci in place of Dali since his name has “da” in it, too.

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The copyright laws in New Zealand are in danger of drastically changing to a “Guilt Upon Accusation” format. Which means:

Over the past fifteen years Copyright law has seen drastic changes in favour of Copyright holders and against artist reuse through Fair Dealing (known as Fair Use in the United States). In 1995 you could sample 5% of text for educational reasons but by 2000 this was reduced to 3% and now, online, this right can be removed entirely with DRM (Digital Restrictions/Rights Management). In New Zealand you are not allowed to sample for the purpose of parody or satire. If you buy a CD in New Zealand you are allowed to make one single copy to your mp3 player for free but if you buy a DVD you’re not allowed the same right. You are allowed to sample and reproduce portions of text but you’re not allowed to sample audio or video or images (unsurprisingly, this law was made before home computers were popular!).
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Painted Moleskine Weekly + Notebook planner walk through.
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