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02Oct 08
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In this issue we make a plea to our fellow designers “please help Adam Broadway, he has a dried banana”,a great bunch of flogged designs and a recovery section featuring inspirational work to help our welts heal. For some reason I think it’s going to become a bit of a habit, drinking a glass of port at midnight (when the phones have stopped ringing) while writing this editors note thing. I don’t buy it that you can design and not feel personal rejection when your ideas are turned down, what a load of bollocks. If you’ve put your mind into something, into anything (with honest thought) not just to get paid, then of course rejection is personal, and very annoying and very painful. Sometimes more annoying than painful, but all the time, personal. I’m happy with our second issue of flogged, the connections we’ve made and the tooth fiddling adventure we’ve ventured into. So, it’s silly season again, those christmas catalogues have to be done by tomorrow but our clients still haven’t approved any of the layouts or realised port at midnight is for pleasure, not deadlines.
about flogged magazine Has a client rejected one of your designs recently? it was a great one too. You keep looking at the design, it excites you, it pisses you off, it excites you, it pisses you off. Send it to flogged (www.floggedmagazine.com), we celebrate good designs that have been flogged in a monthly magazine and provide a space for recovery.
Jo Mulga Bill
editor/designer/painter/tooth fiddler
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adam has a dried banana please give him a voice ;( Ever wonder what’s behind these coming soon pages we see popping up everywhere. COMING SOON, if their owners will ever be brave We’re on a mission to help Adam Broadway share his life with us in a proposed website where he maintains 4 blogs compartmentalizing his life by family, fear, achievements and plain nutiness. If you’re reading this do give Adam a shout of encouragement for all those times you wanted to give up being a bloody business robot but never did, for all your coming soon pages ... that have coming soon
enough or give laziness the flick? Over the last year I’ve been getting to know the person behind this particular coming soon page, Adam Broadway. As it turns out he’s this dude from Sydney who adores his boys, is a very successful business man and is about to get into a blogging adventure that will shock and shake many people he knows.
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Adam Broadway just needs a little bit of
SOME RECENT WORDS FROM ADAM
there. Do plump up his banana, he’s a great excuse
encouragement from some kind designers out
BROADWAY
of a human being, we hope people the world over
We got druggies, thuggies, alco’s, pedo’s,
get to see this. He’s almost there, what a journey its
schi-”Zo’s”, no-doze, freddo’s, uppers,
going to be.....
downers, sadden clowners, smiling frowners and out of towners.
Email : broadmouth@gmail.com and say ‘hey adam do it’
contributors
flogged ORU KABIRLISKY ROBERT MATHISON INCSPRING PEREZ FOX CHAD BEHNKE MONSTER FACTORY SELF MUTILATION
recovery GENERATE DESIGN SRULI RECHT BASTARDISED MARIAN BANTJES MONSTER FACTORY
a pinch in the mouse is worth two flakes in the dark
you trooper!
After months and months of research, concept drawings, refinements and meetings with the client, I presented this logo and received some great feedback. The deal was 99% sealed, and I was just waiting for the final confirmation. This is when i received a phone call from the client who told me he has changed the name and the entire concept behind his company and thus requires a completely new logo. Naturally, i asked him to go ‘flog’ himself. Oru Kabir
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Robert’s bee
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Warner Bros. wanted something much more “dark and brooding� for Josiah, so this comp was flogged in lieu of the practically-all-black design. Robert Mathison / allsoulsdesign.com
a friend asked me how I was feeling and I said “with my hands” she laughed. of course I didn’t tell her I had just read that in the Andy Warhol Diaries, footnotes kill jokes.
doll teapot image from tinyurl.com/46j6sq hand from some place else
So you’ve spent hours on a logo that was
incspring takes away the creative brief
even worse you really can’t get back the
excercise euphoric, creative, muscles
flogged, your ego has taken a beating but time spent making that logo bigger then smaller then bigger but more colorful and
once again smaller but less colorful. You know what, stuff it! sell the damn thing and
and whipp encouraging designers to while making money from great ideas. Meet Wes Wilson the healer behind incspring
use the money for something nice.
Sell your rejected logos via incspring.com
Wes the healer
change the original name, include a domain
name if poss - sell it. Incspring attracts buyers who know what they want and want it
now. Buyers who haven’t a clue what to call
their new venture can buy a ‘brand’ com-
follow Wes on Twitter
Some of the brands on incspring are pure
Sell a logo on incspring
plete with name, logo and domain name.
genious, makes you see the company it could be. A brilliant concept shunning tradi-
tion. Big pat on the backside to incspring for providing a space where welts can heal.
http://twitter.com/incspring www.incspring.com
flogged logos on
The logos featured on this page have been flogged and submitted to incspring.com for sale.
Life according to Blu video
blublu.org/
Watch the video on
/tinyurl.com/4lqmcx
In creating a logo for Intelligent Editing, a software company, I took a slightly controversial, but undeniably memorable approach. The client didn’t “get” it and rejected the entire concept without a second thought. The resulting logo is competent, but ultimately very safe. Perez Fox / perezfox.com
Perez’s been flogged
There’s something about aggravation that calms us, that’s why we listen to pop music. When you’ve had a shit day, try talking to someone who irritates the crap out of you - literal purges save time and take the guess work out of the recovery process. Getting unseen pleasure from aggravation is common and therapeutic, we all watch aggravating sitcoms, soaps, videos. Therapy, forgiveness and drugs are not the only ways to heal your self, find ways to aggravate yourself, it’s probably one of the least celebrated forms of therapy.
I want a cracker button badge from /tinyurl.com/3sjrpj
the sky is upon my feet image from /tinyurl.com/3lluq4
Chad’s bee
en flogged
I was commissioned to do the village website for my very small hometown. I created this layout to represent the coziness and warmth of the village. I also included interactive parts for the town members such as business specials and photostreams to make it more than just a directory of meeting minutes. However, upon submission... I was told the design was ‘too blah blah’ and that it ‘lacked a colour scheme.’ I went back and made a second, completely different design, but they rejected that one as well, eventually telling me that they went with someone who was ‘much more aggressive’ than I. And so, I passively await the release of this new website direction, a release that was supposed to take place on September 1st. CHAD BEHNKE / STEAMPOWEREDDESIGN.COM
Tino
a cross between a monster a animal in the world
Dwight who looks surprisingly better in this photo than in real life, never quite made it but helped Monster Factory recover from floggings. Check out the recovery section to find out how brave Dwight gave his DNA up for the love of artistic resurrection ...
flogged monster factory toys submitted by Rhya Tamasauskas | monsterfactory.net
Tino, Terry and Dwight have been flogged ;-(
and every unpleasant
Terry
should not be seen in public!
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Some exciting, beautiful and funny tweeples we’ve met on twitter ... you’ve made the past month exciting, thank you.
thanks for following @
@floggedmagazine
dolls exist in everyone image from /tinyurl.com/3e966v
There’s a brand of aggravation known as voyeuristic aggravation which is especially healing, a sort of silent healing. We discovered this ‘hate club’ on facebook. Follow talented actor/director Campbell Cooley as he defends himself against Matt Baker and ex girlfriend the beautiful Yazmeen. One day Yazmeen adds a hate club on facebook ... accusing Campbell of stealing her friends on
is Campbell a stalker? or someone merely using facebook like it should be used ... find out more in the next episode of Campbell Cooley is a facebook friend stealer .... use aggravation to heal.
recovery SRULI RECHTERATE BASTARDISE MARIAN BANTJES MONSTER FACTORY The designs in the next few pages are not rejected designs, they exist to help our welts heal. More recovery on our blog floggedmagazine.com/recovery
umbuster Sruli Recht designed this mesmerizing umbrella. The Umbuster is an Umbrella with an ergonomically positioned knuckle duster handle configuration.* Presented in handle options of treated aluminiums and wood qualities, with canopy colour combinations to suit, the Umbuster will be available October this year here on Birkiland. It is currently available for pre-order - priced approximately at 330 USD. * The Umbuster has been classified a Class 5 weapon by good and upright men and women of the Victorian Police, and is considered similarly so in many countries. To have and to hold this accessory requires a weapons licence and, or gun licence. To be notified when the Umbuster is available for purchase e-mail umbuster@birkiland.com view other designs from Sruli from www.birkiland.com
RECOVER WITH SRULI RECHT / SRULIRECHT.COM
Sruli Recht I was a very detached child... living partly in this world.. and mostly in my head. Sruli Recht- Made to measure - Jerusalem 1979 Migrated like a broken Sea Bird, Johannesburg South Africa - Melbourne Australia - European Nomad landed in Reykjavik Iceland Visit Sruli on www.srulirecht.com
Sruli is currently listening to Ben Frost Sam Amidon yo-yo ma Aesop Rock
RECOVER WITH SRULI RECHT / SRULIRECHT.COM
Bastardised, a 208 page book ... 289 ‘Bunchisms’ specially selected from 750 c will be on sale soon, checkout : www.bunchdesign.com www.madeinbunch.com
In 2007, Bunch Design invited a whole bunch of well known, talented and really nice designers to bastardise their logo, the result was a fantastic array of eye candy. View all submissions on www.madeinbunch.com Our personal favourite by Marian Bantjes below, view the animation on madeinbunch.com (click on Marian Bantjes name on the lhs menu to view). It left us wondering if we wanted to stick this in an enemys armpits and watch them laugh in pain or eat it like cotton candy (while clearing our throats as it will tickle).
Marian Bantjes www.bantjes.com RECOVER WITH BUNCH / BUNCHDESIGN.COM
contributions
Motomichi Nakamura www.motomichi.com
Insane Facilities www.insanefacilities.com
Masa www.breedlondon.com
PIN www.codigopin.cl.nu
Paulo Silva www.bunchdesign.com
Tomislav J. Kacunic www.bruketa-zinic.com RECOVER WITH BUNCH / BUNCHDESIGN.COM
Speaking of Marian Bantjes we attended a talk by Marian a couple of months back, if Marian is ever in your neighbourhood talking, it’s really worth a listen as Marian is one of those speakers who is funny, non bullshitty and cheekily honest in a non hallmark sort of a way. Marian is famously known for her beautiful, obsessive, intricate passion for typography. We wish Marian was on twitter What Marian likes “I love to think and write and talk. I love hanging out with smart, interesting people. I hate sports, I love music, I hate theatre, I love movies, I hate Disney, I love the Bothers Quay, I hate research, I love making things … I could go on like this, but it’s 1am and I’m now tired”
This appears in the 15th Anniversary issue of VIBE, for an article on JayZ.
RECOVER WITH MARIAN BANTJES / BANTJES.COM
From the ‘loved stories series’ an amazing series of ‘letters’ Marian writes to her loved ones
All the boys who loved me back (burned wood):
RECOVER WITH MARIAN BANTJES / BANTJES.COM
This oil painting was made for issue #11 of The Creator Studio from Barcelona, published in March 2008. The theme was “Rituals” and Marian was asked to address the “full moon.” So she thought of “A spell”, “an incantation” and “a curse.” “Amusingly, on their website it says “Canadian artist Marian Bantjes toyed with the idea of casting a spell up to the full moon, using it to conquer the man responsible for her restlessness.” I really don’t recall ever saying that or having that in mind. But honestly, if I’d’a thought it would have WORKED, I certainly would have done so!” RECOVER WITH MARIAN BANTJES / BANTJES.COM
Marian designed this tattoo for her friends Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio with the name of their first-born, Maya. It was a gift, in lieu of rattles or a stuffed toy. “I know what you’re thinking: will I do this for you? Sorry, No. Not unless you’re a friend of mine or you have gobs of cash. That may sound strange, but let’s just pretend I’m Joni Mitchell: “I play if you have the money or if you’re a friend to me …” Tattoos are very personal, so I either need to know you, or thousands of dollars need to lubricate the pain of a client-gets-what-client-wants job. Know what I mean?”
RECOVER WITH MARIAN BANTJES / BANTJES.COM
RECOVER WITH MARIAN BANTJES / BANTJES.COM
PURCHASE DESIGN&DESIGNER SERIES Last year Marian was contacted by Émilie Lamy at Pyramyd Editions in France (who also publish the design mag étapes) to have her work published as part of a series of small books called “design&designer”. Purchase this amazing recovery book from /tinyurl.com/3vbw84 Visit Marian online .... bantjes.com
RECOVER WITH MARIAN BANTJES / BANTJES.COM
the famously flogged Dwight’s DNA made a comeback
recycle. recover rhya tamasauskas from monsterfatcory.net talks to us about recovery : “ I thought we could best explain how we recover from our rejected work with a visual example. I have included an image of three monsters we made based on characters from the cult movie classic ‘The Big Lebowski’. We designed these guys for a show in L.A. at Gallery 1988 called Crazy for Cult. I think this is a great example of how we made a pretty sweet recovery from a rejected monster. The Dude, Walter and Donnie monster patterns were all based on Dwight’s original shape. If you put them side by side I am sure you can see the resemblance and the drastic improvement” - Rhya Tamasauskas Find some more inspirational monster photo’s here: monsterfactory.net/wholesale Monster Factory facebook group has more Lebowski photo’s in the picture section http://tinyurl.com/4bxq75 monsterfactory.blogspot.com
RECOVER WITH MONSTER FACTORY / MONSTERFACTORY.NET
The Dude, Walter and Donnie RECOVER WITH MONSTER FACTORY / MONSTERFACTORY.NET
Visit the new recovery section on floggedmagazine.com We’ve been posting recovery art, designs, packaging, stories, posters, books, websites, animation (you get the picture) on :
www.floggedmagazine.com/recovery visit our recovery section / subscribe via rss
till next month ... be brave.
02Oct 08