This year's christmas gift

Since we've been married, Mary and I have made homemade Christmas gifts. This year we made 3 batches of Mary's mother's Cranberry sauce. Of course, I had to make a tag for it.

Here's to three good ones!

Mary and I recently celebrated our third anniversary. I wanted to do something really special for her, so I made this card. It's really the only year I can use this idea, so I went for it. The inscription read, "Here's to three good ones!"

Rose Festival

I finally got the film developed from my trip through the Rose Festival this year. It was the maiden voyage with my Holga.

This is my first graphic design textbook from a class I took as a junior in high school. It's pretty awesome, in a retro flashback kind of way. It's mostly about the technical side of things. Offset lithography, screen printing, photography (film of course). Some of it it actually still useful.

Check out this quote: "Physicists and mathematicians are working on such things as three-dimensional photography and adapting laser technology to the graphic arts."

I hope that works out. I've certainly been feeling the lack of laser technology in graphic design. In the future we won't even need computers. It will all be done with lasers.

Last Wednesday night was the Rosy's: an award show for the advertising and design community of Portland. The party itself wasn't particularly overwhelming. Truth be told, many in our office speak of the Rosy's the way most speak of routine vehicle maintenance. The tickets run somewhere around $40 but the drinks are free when you get inside. After two hours of people trying to get their money's worth, the ceremony begins. I say ceremony, but it's more like a street carnival. It's sadly reminiscent of elementary school assemblies. I felt pretty bad for the MC who struggled with the crowd all evening.

One of the projects I worked on got a Rosy. It's a logo for Mint Dental Work. Exhibit A:



Steve got the lifetime achievement award. A pretty cool honor at a strange time. He's not retiring. Nor do I expect him to for many years. Why they chose to give him the lifetime achievement award now is beyond me.

Modern love

Some of you maybe wondering about the title of my blog, although I'm sure that to many the meaning is self evident.

The Modern Chef Pant.

It really is a thing of beauty. When Wolf Parade penned the lyrics "I'm not in love with the modern world" they clearly had not considered Modern Chef Pants. The cultured cousin to the has-been hammer pants. Their functional one-size-fits-all draw string waist truly embodies the modern age. Function and aesthetic married at last. The subtle Yin Yang pattern of the black and white houndstooth insuring us that there is balance in the universe.

How can I ever hope to out do what Modern Chef Pants have already so humbly achieved? My work is to follow the same great pattern of the greatest of all pants and hope that I can better humanity in the process.

Let's get this straight...

This is my blog. This is not where you're going to go for pictures of Ethan. That's Mary's blog:
maryjohnkendall.blogspot.com
That's baby central. I do however reserve the right to post an occational really really cute picture of Ethan. Like this one:




But don't expect it all the time! Okay. Maybe one more.






But I swear this won't happen all the time! There's gonna be other stuff going on too. I'm not sure what yet, but it's gonna be cool.