Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Side Stitch - Designers at Heart

Side Stitch - Designers at Heart

As you can probably tell, I put a lot of heart into this episode of Side Stitch. If you aren't familiar with the comic, it's something I make for when it's my turn to blog at the office (I work at BBR Creative, a design/ad agency in Lafayette, LA). I always try to instill some humor and cleverness in along with the design references, but this time I thought I'd try to make it pretty heartfelt.

As I mentioned on the BBR Blog, here we follow a young design pair from initial campus crush to the Request for Proposal (RFP), seeing all the adorableness and designer in-jokes in between.

I started concepting the story after I thought of the RFP/marriage kicker. I tried to think of a bunch of design-related situations in which to put the couple. The challenge wasn’t to try and squeeze in as much design references as possible (that was the easy part), but to illustrate two people falling in love in a very finite number of panels. So we see them working together to ace their design final, the initial inquiry to a first date, bonding over the industry’s beloved design annuals, starting their own design studio, painting a house, adopting their own pet and, finally, proposing marriage.

Hope you enjoyed it, and please pass this along to your design friends. They might get a kick out of it! :D

9 comments:

  1. Funny thing, this is pretty much how my life has gone with my (now) fiancée right down to the illustrated marriage proposal. The only real difference being we were illustration grads instead of graphic designers and we don't have a cat. Great comic!

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  2. Aw man, that's awesome! I'd like to see some of your illustrations, if you wouldn't mind sharing. Marriage proposal included, hahaha.

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  3. Haha, that's brilliant although confused me for a couple of seconds - due to a big print day today, my mind somehow automatically thought 'Ready for Print'!! LOL

    Very nice story and illustrative style, thanks for sharing :)

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  4. HAHA. I can see how you came to that conclusion. We use PR - Press Ready. Hope your print ran splendiferously!

    PS - Whoa, "splendiferously" is actually a word? It's not showing up as incorrect in the Blogger spellcheck!

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  5. Wow. I love this so much Burt. Your illustration style is awesome, but even more, the story is incredible. One of my husband's coworkers sent this to us and said it reminded her of him and me. Scarily similar. Nice job.

    Also, to let you know, I blogged about it a bit ago (http://smellingoranges.blogspot.com/). Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Excellent Burt! A bit of it was over my head but I liked the RFP.

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  7. Clever, Burt! And I love the style! :D

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  8. heiii, i ENJOY it!
    hum, Burt... maybe i need this RFP... xD

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  9. Hahah I love the movie sign!

    "HELVETICA"

    Brilliant, I love it!

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