Twiggy8520

I currently work here now -> www.mrsite.com

I will be honest that i am beginning to grow tired of this "recession" its taken a large amount of jobs from hardworking people. Obviously there is nothing i can do except feel sorry those people. My major problem, aside from not finding employment after a 10 months, is now, as the end of the academic year looms yet more design graduates are going to be flung into the design industry. Only to have a rather large door slammed in their faces. There are more and more graduates pouring into the design industry, and less and less jobs to be filled. Now as im waiting for a company to get in touch with me to tell me if i have, or have not got a job, im wondering what to do? I mean im not going to be able to float around indefinitely waiting for a design job to come up. At present i have had 4 job interviews, sent approx 150 - 200 job applications (averaging between 3 and 10 applications a week), and hundreds more enquiry emails (43 just yesterday) yet still no job. At present im working a few days a week at a well know supermarket, i can barely survive on that wage let alone be able to pay off my rather large student loan that i ran up taking the time to go through university. This makes me a little overqualified to man a self-scan checkout at a supermarket. Companies are closing down at a steady rate, and there seems to be no end to this falling economy, so all i can do is hold tight and hope some company likes my work and is actually willing to take a risk with a graduate and hire me. Then i can buy a new camera from lomography.

Well lately i've rewritten my cv for about the fifth time in the past 10 months in the hope of landing a nice job. Nothing much has come out of it, but heres the fingers crossed. Luckily i have work from Let The Kids Dance and the t-shirts i've designed will hopefully be out in late feb.

I've been fighting against bezier curves and keming the last few days. If you are unfamiliar with the term keming its basically bad kerning google it for a good description. I have been working on this kraken typeface, and after spending the day on it and importing about 100ish letterforms, i released the spacing is far too tight. So i shall spend the majority of tomorrow resetting the spacing and also rescaling the current letterforms.

Well ive been playing with my polaroid camera, finally giving it the love and attention it deserves, check out my flickr account www.flickr.com/photos/twiggy85… for a few 'roids of things, including my rather lovely girlfriend pulling a full on silly pose

The reason im finding new and inventive ways of keeping occupied (including but not limited to, making dinosaurs in little big planet, taking polaroids, refining the mathematical equation that enables a person to calculate the area required to swing a cat, eating chocolate and rewiring guitars) is because im finding it hard to find a job at the moment. There seems to be little work about and im finding it increasingly hard to get even freelance work, I'm probably looking in the wrong places.

Okay,

Happy new year everyone, hope you all had a smashing time and such. Anyway onto business, I've starting selling my works on myfonts.com and as such i have to remove downloads from the following fonts;

Arcadia
Fat Marker
Squiggles
Unremitting

Anyone that has downloaded these fonts from DA or my own website, please remember it is still licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Thanks to everyone that left nice messages and fav'd my fonts, and got me the daily deviation for squiggles too.

Also i am currently working on a new typeface, its like super sans and unremitting having a bastard child. I wont talk it up too much just incase it ends up looking crap.

cheers,

Paul