Well okay, your country doesn't need you. Well it might. I don't know. I can't say. We barely know eachother. I mean with time I'm sure we could become friends but for me to state as to whether or not your country actually needs you would more than likely just be an illinformed guess. Considering the fact that we've just met that would be awfully presumptious of me and would no doubt only hurt our chances of becoming good friends and thus instilling the age old tradition of social networking. Anyways, I'm rambling. My point is, it's very nice to meet you and it would be great if you could go to my slogans page and vote for a few of my musings.

Steelplate's Slogans

In hindsight, this may be trading on our friendship too soon.

I'm scared.

No seriously, I'm terrified about Graphic Design. For starters, let me get this out of the way. I am NOT a graphic designer. I say that because I'm not sure I'll ever be. I don't know what it is, I just can't get that freaking excited about the perfect alignment of Helvetica to a 12.7mm default margin. I just don't care enough about it.

This problem of mine is especially compounded by the fact that I come from a primarily film background and for the last 7 years have worked in the Video Games Industry as a Cinematics Director. Unfortunetly, like most, recent downsizing and redundancies have happened and like most, I was caught in the net of it.

Since then the Games Industry here has nearly completly shut it's doors for a guy with my experience. They largely tend to grab Americans with DECADES of experience for super cheap since they're all coping with the GFC downturn too. Who can blame them really? It's just smart business.

In any case, I'm out here on the outside with no idea what to with myself. Facts are that I need to make money and it would more than likely take FOREVER to start making some if I went into the Film Industry (although I do have experience as an Editor/Compositor).

Bottom line, there was only one other thing that I ever wanted to do with my life, and that was make Logos. Seems pretty freaking limited I know and ultimately, it's just some passing hobby (I think I'm an Illustrator at heart). So now I sit here, unemployed, eating into savings, just joined a Graphic Design course and am staring down the barrel of a future career I'm not even certain I'll like.

Maybe I just had a bad day in class or something but honest to god, 5 hours talking about Grids in InDesign. I find myself sitting down and listening to these lectures and doing these prac exercises and thinking to myself, "This is Art right? Isn't Art subjective? Why are there so many rules?"

Now I'm not trying to rally against the machine, but I am sitting here tossing up two opinions on a lot of things I'm taught. Everything coming into my head is greeted with a "Well duh, common sense there" or a "What? Why the fuck has it gotta be done like that?" Could be the teachers fault for not explaining a lot of the why behind things and I recognize that so I spend a lot of time now trying to force myself to be interested. Jumping around on Design Blogs and the like can only do so much.

I do love Design, I just wonder if it's truly for me.

I had my first day at Shillington College today and it was freaking awesome. So much to take in and learn.

I loved the fact that I knew what Kerning was thanks to you fine peeps at Threadless :)

Oh, in case peeps don't know, Shillington College is a Graphic Design college. So yes, I'm studying Graphic Design now. Holy crap!

Maybe I'll actually learn to to design something that sells!!

Here it is, I know you've been waiting for it! Here is my NUMBER ONE PICKS FROM MY TOP TEN FAVOURITE SLOGANEERS!! In this list is the "cream of the crop" (I don't speak French, I ain't typing it either) as chosen by me and a jury of people that look eerily similar to me but probably dress better.

"The Platypus: Nature's Version Of An Awkward Teenager" - Maltzmania

"Gravity: The Force Is Strong With This One." - FRICKINAWESOME

"Sometimes I bump into walls in search for the hidden level." - Colorfool

"When your Guitar is on Fire, Stop, Rock, and Roll." - Krimson

"Starting a candy business out of my van had unexpected downsides" - Rossmat8

"Walk like an Egyptian. Run like a Kenyan." - Caleb11

"Careful, I learned martial arts from a rat in a bath robe." - jaywalkergraphics

"I suppress my feelings too but you don't see me crying about it." - Bio_bot_9000

"Couches Are My Comfort Zone." - PuppetMeat

"Time Travel Got Me Where I Am Tomorrow." - Krokun

Go vote for them so that I may parade around with large smiles on my many faces (and if you'd like, vote some of mine too).

It's shocking I know.

I've actually gone ahead and designed something of a submission for Threadless, or maybe it'd be better suited for TypeTees? Not sure. I didn't think I had enough space to get the idea across so I thought I'd just take 5 minutes out of my day and pop this up.



Mildly humorous? Possible?

You decide!

EDIT: UPDATE! I have just uploaded another design, this time one that has actual artwork in it.



Well kinda, whatevers. Again it's just something simple and for fun :)

Hey gang,

Little bored as of late so I got to clicking around and realised that at some point, ages ago, I deleted some slogan gems, god honest gems! So I thought I'd try and ressurect a few of them and see how they'd do in today's audience.

If ya'll could have a gander and giggle over in it, that'd be super! And don't be afraid to suggest ones I should bring out of the graveyard.

Love,
Steely

Hey Threaddy-Bears!

Okay, that was lame, but guess what isn't!? Mine being so bored I'm actually trying to slogan up again! I know! Amazing right?

Yeah I didn't think so either. Anyways I've got 3 newbies up, 1 a retooling of an oldie that was bugging me. Anyways if you take a gander and are familar with my preevious works you'll note that I've recently deleted a few.

That's all from me, hope ya'll are doing awesome.

Steely

Figured I should get on this while it's still mildly warm.

Wanted to thank Threadless for choosing my slogan from the thousands of rad candidates that have been trying to get their awesome slogans printed over these years. Special shoutout to Frick and Rossmat8 for their badass OSC and Shogan clubs. I honestly don't think it could have happened without your help. And lastly, extra special thanks goes to Speedyjvw for doing such a rad custom type face that really made this slogan pop and lock like a mad rock out player.

Love you all,
Steely

I don't have much to say here, thanks largely to the fact that Twitter and Facebook have condensed me down to a 160 character wonder, but GOD DAMMIT!!! I am so sick of working late I swear I'm -this- close to just slamming a car door on my hands and demanding the time off.

I'll need help, I can't slam a door on my hands by myself.

We're friends.

Who's willing to break my hands in a car door?

I've been looking around, shirt shopping ya see?

And maybe it's due to my subpar sleuthing skills, but I've yet to find the greatest shirt ever made. I'm talking a true, balls out, greatest shirt ever. A shirt that leaves no question to both how unbelievably awesome it is and how unbelievably awesome you are for wearing it.

Recently I found something that was close to what I was looking for:

West Side Rumble


As you can see, it has a Shark, eating a freaking jet loaded with harpoons. Now in it's own right, this is a freaking awesome shirt, but for what I'm looking for, it's not enough. Unfortunetly even Dick Firestorm's submissions haven't been enough for me.

What I'm looking for is something unreal...

Picture a Monster Truck with GIANT BEER KEG in the back the has EXPLODED and is now being LAUNCHED over a thousand zombies on fire whilst they head bang to a rock concert played by Iron Man on lead guitar firing a burst of energy from his palm and exploding a Jet, with an Chewbacca bass guitarist, Abe Lincoln on vocals and Animal from the Muppets on drums, surrounded by histories greatest war scenes from WW1 to the Civil War to Ghengis Khan to Roman Gladiators to the Russians and there's twelve, FUCKING TWELVE Black Hawk Helicopters hovering overhead with troopers roping down to the stage while they shoot CROSSBOWS into SKELETONS being reanimated to life by DARTH VADER and MICHAEL BAY with VISHNU ARMS is HAVING SEX with A MOUNTAIN of SWEDISH FEMALE VOLLEYBALL TEAMS and the MASONIC ALL SEEING EYE is WEEPING overhead whilst King Kong, Godzilla and Muhammad Ali in his prime duke it out in the background on top of Mt Everest which is also now a Volcano that is EXPLODING!!!

But that's just an idea and I was wondering what you guys and gals thought.

Cheers,
Steely