Hello Joshua Davis

You left for london and the wall still looked like this at the end of the weekend. sigh.

Sound table

Sushi Table

Megu in tribeca.

Megu

JD

JD in progress

Who is it?

surf's up

Paper Doll

Fruit

I forget what is was called, but tasted "earthy" ID anyone?

Neli

SW's bday skull

more cowbell

sw's bday dance

G L A M

Dang

Suns

Ikea = fine dining

Hello Helmets

This thing is tight

And by tight i mean snug

Multimedia message

RIP

P. Power. indellible.

fast and furious

Our new bullet!

mammals

the solar homes were down, so we checked out the mammals

Grids

Subtraction Grid Page

and

five simple steps to grids

Chickens

Bday blog

double bonus

Nice Guy Mark!

dark matters

real snippets of live conversations from the web, at the yerba buena art center.

View Larger Map

oh this, this is an interactive map with annotations and placemarks of where i have been and am going. you can add photos and video too.. maybe later.
i was just trying to get directions to some places and found it.

from back east

This guy sweats dj stereofaith.

Bonus

yes! look who i found in SF!

The tamale lady!

Zeitgeist

Adams Roof

Adam

Smoke break

Public garden

Fritz

Adam! yum!

coffee shop

there was a line out the door this morning.

King Arthur.

Ching's Robot. Announces and reads email. Reports the weather and time. Does Tai Chi.

Herbivore

I ate here in 2002. Ching hates it.

Ritual

Sunday Night w Ching.

Apple Soda

and Ching at the Taqueira Cancun. maybe the best taco ever, but the worst quesadilla evar..

Walking in the Mission

Watermelon House

Washington DC.

dont forget

nyc

central park and joanie

bbq girls

right now

Type Con

Design Boom

BiJules

mine

this is a truck.

salon: the workflow rollercoaster

started off with some documents provided by Judy - number crunches of
her staffs hours and productivity and billable hours.
most notable was that Judy said she has a large client , who spends a
qtr. mil every 3 months, and they thought it was great, until they ran
the numbers and realized that they were only making a 3% profit. as a
result they are overhauling the way they work with that client.

another measure they take is to include and call attention to project management fees in the initial contract. --- so when clients require a
lot of hand-holding they either pay for it or use your time wisely.

Dress for the Job you want.
There was discussion about the valleys in the workflow roller coaster,
saying that is the easiest time to market yourself - but really - you
should be marketing all the time. and sending work out that resembles
the kind of work you want to be doing and bring in. praise for design
army's self marketing efforts. emergency cards, and coasters at
christmas. they put their time, their money and their heard into their
personal projects.

(market with your goals in mind)

G has started marketing to businesses as opposed to design. Focusing on strategy related projects and making the decisions.
G also has a sales force - that conducts cold calls. a non employee that is highly trained to be very sensitive to the potential clients.

Also good to have is Pro Bono work - relationships can happen anywhere.
charity work (harris productions)

side note, i think i misspoke towards the end of the salon... i asked the question - what if you are a young shop willing to work whenever to please the client, and i think i seemed a bit emotional. one response was to evaluate the work done in the wee hours, it might not be as good as work done regular hours. also judy said, you need to elevate the relationship so the client sees you more as a partner than a vendor. so
they rely on you.

so there was mention of Focused Networking and Targeted Marketing.

Identify who you want to work for, and go after that business. when you
get to work on stuff you want to work on it inspires you to keep going.

Go OUTSIDE of the regular business AIGA events, and seek inspiration
from all around you.

SCORE - develop a system of scoring for a client before you take a job.

Groom the good clients. -- anecdote, you get a client that was a great
pleasure to work with so you tell them at the end of the job, they came
in under budget, and take $300 off their bills.

another tip was to ask clients for quantifiable results - these build your reputation for further down the road, and bolster your credibility
for the next job, as word of mouth can make or break you.

new DADA?

Gordon McKenzie - orbiting the giant hair ball.

erin had RGA story about how they early on some days and were given the briefs from clients they didn't work on - and were tasked to come up
with new creative.

sometimes when you have your nose to the grindstone you forget to look
up and see what's around you.

just joined the women's presidents association where she met Edie Weiner - who is a FUTURIST. this makes me want to send her the apple movie with the touch-screens.

Price Waterhouse Coopers CD said the pieces she remembers are the thought leadership pieces and the white papers. those are the ones she keeps and shares and shows around.

designers need to have the power of word, and confidence in the word. designing and understanding.
other tips - track and map where your new business comes from. take sales classes... dale carnegie.

the stars know...they know...

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Where help is needed, pitch in -- especially if it's outside the boundaries of "your job." Showing that you're not above doing what it takes to make the team run smoothly will earn you all the esteem you desire.

fight club blagden alley saturday crazy.

1. the APES> my new favorite band
2. reflecting: need to craft the graceful acceptance / response. something like: oh thanks for calling. best of luck to you, i'm sure you will be very busy & successful. if you have any tips or advice for me in the future that would be great, if you think of anything you think would be useful for me in regards to my book, or my interview demeanor, i would really appreciate your thoughts. i was well impressed with the way you run your shop. good luck to you. please keep me in mind if you hear of anything that you think might be a good fit for me.
3. crazy conversation on the phone tonight. was priviledged with some very serious very private information. i really respect that. i feel lucky to be trusted so much by a friend. i hope i can be a supportive reassuring friend for a long time to come.

what's your favorrite piece

that's a question that i need a better answer to.

percocet and flexeril

they're not working. they just make me sleeeeepy. I could go watch law and order right now. But I feel like a dork sitting in front of the tv so much. boooring.
anyways, my upper back is f-ed. I was cleaning my room yesterday, sunday morning, waiting to go to the play hunting exhibit, and a good song came on and I just jumped around dancing and I was done for. Low mobility and shooting pains. Debilitating.
I was going to work on some trains layouts, and I have so much work to do in my room, but I just can't do anything feeling like this. I am afraid I am sitting incorrectly the whole time. I should probably just drug up and go back to sleep. So boring. I profile wont even be able to sleep anyways.

mom just called and I was feeling too lazy to hold the phone up.
booo...
so sad. so much achey pain.
I guess it is better than yesterday...
glad pr took me to the er. if I still feel like this today with all those drugs who knows what I would feel like with out them. i've had ice and heat and ice and heat. endless. and still it hurts. the scariest part is being incapacitated. like I can't get anything done. can't imagine what it would be like to have a permanent injury like this..
now pr is gone for a week. travelling cross country with rory and tyler. that is going to rock, i wish i could go. i ownder if they would have the farting contest if i was with them...

workin

my boyfriend is the f*ing greatest. period.

anticipation

everytime i see new e-mail in my inbox i bite my lip and get a curly stomach. this is so cathartic and so exciting! no matter what happens - its the whole process - I need to do this!
onward!