I don’t know if this means anything or not (as far as my abilities as a designer are concerned), but I design things in my free time. I’m slightly obsessed with it. I’m constantly coming up with excuses to design things, and I sometimes spend inordinate amounts of time doing so. That being said, here are a couple items that fall into the “design for the hell of it” category.
The first is a poster that I was going to hang in the bathroom at my office, because it frustrates me that people grab fistfuls of paper towels to dry their hands, when they could probably get by with just one. Stupid and wasteful. Anyhow, I haven’t put it up yet, because of a recent episode of The Office involving passive-aggressive community notes that left me debating the effectiveness of such a poster. So there that is.
© Ryan Polich 2009
The second piece for today is a result of my recent explorations in the Google LIFE photo archive. It also only really applies if you’ve seen the 1954 movie White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera Ellen. In this movie, Kaye and Ellen fake an engagement so Crosby and Clooney will hook up (it’s more complicated than that; just watch the movie. It’s good). After their ruse is discovered, Crosby chastises the both of them, and addresses Vera Ellen with the line that I used in this piece. I thought it fit pretty well with the old photo of Danny Kaye being…well, being Danny Kaye.
© Ryan Polich 2009
So that’s what I have for today. Oh, and while I’m thinking about it, I should mention a little side project I’m working on with my brother. It’s called Dueling Scribbles (you can find it in my RSS feeds on the side of the page), and it spawned from a game he and I used to play. The way it works is like this: one person draws a scribble – could be anything, as long as it’s one line that doesn’t cross over itself at any point. The next person then takes that scribble and incorporates it into a drawing. Pretty simple. We added the restriction that whatever we draw has to start with a certain letter, which we rotate occasionally. Check it out if you have time – I think it’s pretty fun. The more recent drawings have the scribble highlighted in blue so you know where it all started.
So that’s it. I’m done yapping for now. Have a fantastic Friday, and I’ll be back soon with more random crap I’ve designed. Cheers!
