Bookmark it

Gimme a deadline, any deadline, and I’ll slide under the gate as it’s closing to deliver whatever it is I’ve just finished, after having procrastinated until the night before.  Do I love the fear of maybe not making it?  No!  Then what?  Having important work to do is the only time I actually feel like doing housework/matching jars to lids/pairing socks/sewing up hems instead of stapling them.  God, recently I even weeded to avoid work.

The disappointing side of this apparently common habit is that I also procrastinate about doing work I like, and that’s just dumb.  So even though I had 2 months to work on a bookmark design for The Book Depository’s competition, I still left it until the night before I had to drive up the stinking Hume Highway to my Mum’s for Xmas.

But wait – it gets dumber.  I decided to create my image by almost pure collage – intricate, tiny collage requiring tweezers and patience I only have when I shouldn’t.  Even the fact that when I looked at the final image I realised I could have created it in photoshop in a quarter of the time didn’t phase me – it might be indiscernible to the naked eye, but that background is one complete piece of tissue paper with letters cut out.  Wacky!  And stupid.

I pompously sent it off to the UK only to be bitterly disappointed a month later to discover that not only did I not win, a bunch of bozos did.  Meh/whatevs/talk to the hand.  I’m using it as the first of the bookmark and postcard designs I’ll be selling here in my soon-to-be-opened on-line Patsyfox shop, so I guess I’m a winner after all.

If  you make it to the exhibition, please do justify my old-school ways by getting up close and noticing all the teeny pieces.

Tagged as: Fashion Illustration, Stationery, The Book Depository