I should be working. I’m at my desk and we have our daily scrum in a few minutes. Think that’s lighting a fire under my ass to get my notes in order? No. I’d rather blog for this first little while.
I still kind of want to talk about the banner thing if only because there’s still stuff worth talking about with regards to it. I still think it needs some cleaning up and it could use a few more bits of realism in it, but I guess I’m done knocking my own work. I’ve been saying that it could be better, but even so it’s been chosen as a finalist. So…suck it, conscience.
The design is simple: a spray painted stencilled message on a brick wall. Even though it’s simple, it evokes an imagery that seems appropriate to the 20 Something Bloggers group. To me it’s sort of guerrilla marketing like in its nature. When I asked my friend to anonymously critique all the finalists without knowing which one was mine, he picked #4 as his favourite. I pressed him on why and this is what he said:
yeah.. i think i know why i like it now…. it reminds me of someone just going around the streets with their handheld camera and just asking random ppl for their input their opinions
Yes! Bloggers in their twenties want to be heard! This is a generation with a burden to be transformational in nature. There is a push to be different from the old guard. In the age of the Internet, it’s becoming easier to have opinions be made public just by plastering it someplace public. As a parallel, people spray painting a stencilled message on a brick wall sort is sort of in the same veins.
That’s what I was going for.
I think I’m going to do well–hopefully in the top few. I’m sort of happy that the image sort of speaks for itself: it tells a story.
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4 comments
Miss A says:
Sat. November 8, 2008 at 2:20 am (UTC -4 )
Thanks for doing this! I think it’s fabulous and represents our group perfectly as well.
Jay says:
Sat. November 8, 2008 at 8:14 am (UTC -4 )
Thank you, kindly! I’m so glad it’s being received rather well!
Catrina says:
Wed. December 3, 2008 at 3:20 pm (UTC -4 )
fabulous. This answers my discussion topic quite perfectly. Thanks for this.
Jay says:
Thu. December 4, 2008 at 4:31 pm (UTC -4 )
Thanks for that! I appreciate the visit.