OK, this is a thinly veiled Blogo test. I am nowhere near the net. Exciting isn’t it? I thought that it was time that I blogged the Thunderbird project. The initial brief asked for a design for a 6 foot by 4 foot standee. (A store display). I started with a thumbnail that was actually headed towards an illustrative solution. However, after playing with the type a little, I thought I might be able to create a photo composite using the logo, the storefront shot, and a stock photo. In the end the client liked the photo composite; they changed the jacket from blue to red and then ordered a counter card, a flyer, a 12 foot x 3 foot banner, and a button. The banner called for a major redesign of the type element as well as some tweaking to the photos and backgrounds. All in all it was a fun job. I enjoy photo composites as much as I enjoy illustrations so this project was a win/win.

I run through these blog clients every couple of years. I think the Idea is to make blogging more accessible by giving us a simple interface from our desktops that allow us to post “on the run” without having to actually be logged into our blog site. Of course, my question to this is; “I’m not logged into my website? Is there anything wrong with this picture? I am constantly logged into my site, and Facebook and Twitter as well as a few others … 99% of the time.”

There is the argument, that if I had a blog client maybe I could let go of all these log-ins and concentrate on the blogging. Which is why I test them. The determining factor as to whether it stays active in my dock mostly boils down to a few features that I like and some others that I don’t and on which side of that weighted equation wilI the software fall.

We will see if my life gets more or less simple.

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