Project: Cube redesign

At work, we were recently given new business cards. When my box showed up on my desk I opened them and saw the word "creative" slapped underneath my name.

So, since Campbell-Ewald's new business card policy has lumped me in with creative directors, illustrators and other "artsy" folk because I don't have a VP attached to my title, I'm starting a cube redesign project for my little corner of Warren.

Currently, my cube walls are heavily automotive influenced. I have a LeMans poster, a host of Corvette posters and flyers, NASCAR Chevy propaganda, autographed posters from custom auto builders and a variety of wall calendars, press passes and your generic company info. I also have a cutting board in the shape of a pig outside my office, Eric Cartman on my desk and a host of other junk.

Now, I find myself needing a big change. Aesthetically, I'm bored with my space. I'm redesigning, immediately. More on this later.

"Shooting out car tires sounds like loads of fun..."

On the iPod "Too Drunk To Fuck" - Nouvelle Vague

As you can tell by now, I make a whole lot of promises on my blog that I seldom keep. It's more than a month later, and still no new site, still no new musings, and still - no blogging consistently. I'm not going to pretend I can get back to daily blogging, but I will pretend that I'm going to rededicate my time to my own web space. These damn MySpace accounts, my new relationship with Facebook and a host of new projects at Work, have had me slammed. I have a new title - Associate Editorial Director. Yeah, I don't know what it's supposed to mean either.

More later. Yes, I promise.

On the iPod"Manifest Destiny" - Guster

I haven't written here in a long time. For that I'm very sorry. Somehow I got back on the MySpace kick and neglected my corner of the net. No more of that. I'll be dual posting here and on MySpace. I miss the feeling of looking for comments here and greatly regret that I've been a turd about sharing my new life in Advertising and Marketing. I should really use this space to be more proactive about sharing wedding information, plans and my life. MySpace posts seem a little quiet, reserved.

At any rate. We'll have some big updates here later. I'm putting finishing touches on invitation design, wedding site and working on new stuff for my Rocky.

You were new on the scene

On the iPod "Middle School Frown" - Josh Rouse

So, as you’ve no doubt gathered from the previous post, I’m now working in advertising. It’s been surreal so far. Everything is different than what I’m used to, but I see oodles of opportunity here. Admittedly, my creativity was stifled in journalism on more than one occasion.

And while I see plenty of avenues that might do the same thing in this new field, there is no shortage of encouragement to think outside the box, to dream big and to crack my knuckles and do some good hard work. So far, it has been satisfying.

I’m not doing any programming of the sites I’m working on, but I do have some say in the types of content that are being developed. I’ll share some of the work as it is produced.

So far, the people have been fun and I’m really looking forward to getting into full swing on some of the projects I’m working on.

On a personal level, things are going well. The finance is home and is just a few days away from taking her initial board exams. I’m very proud of her. I’ll also be happy when she has them behind her and we can go back to some sort of brief sense of normalcy before she begins her rotations in the fall.

We’ll be taking a little break and heading down to Indianapolis to the Brickyard for a Formula 1 race next Thursday. I’m looking forward to getting out of the state and getting some camping in.

I also have a lot of philosophical thought to espouse and a few critiques to deliver. Give me a little time, I’m getting settled.

Thanks for hanging in there with me. I’m feeling much happier and healthier since I made this move. I’ll be back to full strength soon.

Namaste.

On being busy.

On the iPod - "The Boy's No Good" - Lifetime

My apologies for being really, really busy. I have a few things to touch on, so let's get right to it.

First and foremost: MySpace. Yes, I deleted my personal profile. I'm working on a new page that I will use solely for business and marketing purposes. I have a lot of reasons for deleting my personal account, the main one being that the people I was writing or commenting to on a regular basis are already directly touching my life in some way. Everyone else was hanging on to threads that were long frayed anyway. And, to be perfectly honest, I don't have the time, energy or will to give anyone reason to hang on to a fading heartbeat.

It's never been a secret to anyone I'm close to that I go through periods of extreme isolation and that I eschew relationships on a fairly regular basis.

Now, on being really busy. I have a wedding I'm in the middle of planning with the finance (not a typo, that's what I call her. It's endearing), working solo in a three person department and dealing with a fussy dog and a few personal demons. Thankfully, most of that is melting like a lot of the snow here in the mitten. The wife-to-be will soon be home and I can get some sleep again.

In design related news, I'm plugging right along on learning Flash, Dreamweaver (you'd think I'd know that one by now) and the ins and outs of my new CS2 Suite. I've also got a new client that I'll tell you all more about in a future post.

So, that's my quick update. I have also been reading a lot when I can't sleep. I have some articles to reference throughout the week, so this shouldn't be static for long. Also, I'll clean up a few pages around my own site. I'm getting an off center display on some machines and browsers. Are you seeing things dead center or are they off to the side? Comment and let me know.

Thanks.