blah, blah, blogs

i had some time to kill at work on saturday, so i let myself get swallowed in the endless sea of design blogs out there. usually it's a matter of mindlessly scrolling through recent posts on many stuff or design sponge or swiss miss or the like, occasionally following links, and generally taking it for what it's worth. i try not to spend too much time in that world, and i rarely do when i'm at school. hypocrisy aside, so much of it seems so pointless and self-indulgent. but going back to some of that stuff now, at a point where i just might be frustrated with design for the first time in my life, might have been just what the doctor ordered. (that and, dare i say it, reading daniel pink.) it helped remind me that it's ok if design is fun and it's ok if it does nothing more than look good. this isn't to say that the really good stuff (in my opinion) doesn't do more... but even the act of bringing beauty alone is commendable. out of the hundreds of projects and pictures that i saw on the screen before me, this one was worthy of writing on my hand to bring back home for bookmarking. cardon copy.

"cardon copy takes the vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear offs we have all seen in our neighborhoods. it involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and redesigning them, over powering their message with a new visual language. i then replace the original with the redesign in its authentic environment."

and although i'm hesitant to say that i like it because i'm sure someone out there is already thinking that it represents the arrogance of designers to mess with what's already there and think they can make it better and that it's a waste of time and blah, blah, blah... i like it.