You’ve probably heard me mention about the great campaign called Young & Free run by Currency Marketing.
Here’s a video for their latest contest:
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The Hawkins Action Method
I’m a junkie for good stationery. No joke.
I love stationery stores. I would probably love working in a certain paper/printer sales company too.
I found out about Behance when I was looking for a good project management tool. From the get go I loved the way their design looked. It made me prod further.
Since then I’ve used their online Action Method for a project (combined with their free iPhone app) and have really liked it. My only problem – I don’t have what I think is enough work to warrant paying for their services… yet. That will come in time. (They have a very cool set-up for projects, including an option of having fellow co-workers to be a part of your action steps and simple check points to make sure everything is right on track.) You should check it out – HERE
So that said, I checked out their printed materials and knew I needed to give it a try. I just got the package in the mail yesterday and well, just check it out:
I loved the box the way it came and from there it just got better and better!
Both of my products were packaged very well (even though it’s just $15), but what I loved was the attention to detail. If you look at the book on the right, the bottom strip had creative and encouraging words for making ideas happen.
This book is the one I love and I think will be used the most (even though the action pad are just the papers from the action book, the action book has such a nice feel and sound to it!). Inside it has a little booklet on how to make the Action Book the most effective. Very cool! Just about ready to “show my ides some respect“.
To say I’m excited about these new purchases would be a lie. I’M VERY EXCITED.
I’m looking forward to moving forward with a few new initiatives of my own and getting some solid project management behind them will make a world of difference. This is gonna be good!
Cheers,
Matthew A. Hawkins
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A New Intiative
My work at PCC has just made a major shift.
I’ve been given a project that is going to be crossing several months through print, web and video.
This is what I enjoy. I love leaving work knowing that I’m not complete a project yet. Doing projects that are just a few hours and they’re done are alright. They get boring pretty quickly. They just don’t seem to have the substance or intrigue to keep you too interested. I guess that’s the maintenance stuff (which is still important, just not as much fun).
I like the big picture.
I’m working on a thing we’ve titled “everybody”. Here’s some quick shots of it:
I built the base of it all in Illustrator. We’ve talked of making a large banner in the distant future, so I wanted to go vector right away so that I didn’t have to worry about having to type these names in again. From this vector I’ve just finished up a booklet that is 11″ wide and 4.5″ high (it’s basically half a letter size sheet across).
Here’s what the background looks like (completed in Photoshop). I’ll post the final printed product next week.
The website is underway and video is a few weeks away.
It’s fun though!
Matthew A. Hawkins
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The Next 30 Days
I love doing things in blocks of time.
It makes the long term goal more viable. Makes it tangible.
So starting February 12th 2010, I am going to do 3 things for 30 days:
- no junk food (toughest one)
- only drink water (still eating food, but only beverage is water)
- run everyday (I’m starting off at 1km a day and working up from there)
So we’ll see what happens.
What is something you want to do in the next 30 days but you’ve been putting it off?
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