Makin’ Pictures and Telling Stories
Leftovers from my meeting at The Man Cave.
This week I had the pleasure of meeting some damn interesting folks. At a shin dig held at what is affectingly referred to as The Man Cave, I met a man who makes chandeliers out of antlers, another fellow who builds custom poker tables by hand, a guy who etches metal to make the reliefs used for most Hallmark cards and a slew of other folks who use their hands as their tools to shape their personal visions of beautiful. Shit was pretty neat. It was also pretty inspiring to think of all these folks following their passion and having it work out just fine, thank you.
Eventually the talking was pointed at me and I had a chance to explain about being a web and graphic designer and really how it’s all from the same seed just a different branch. All of us got a little story to say, sometimes it’s our story and sometimes we’re just the story teller for folks who cut the checks but in either case, we need to make people we never met feel something and love it. Sometimes you can find my stories in print or on a screen and that’s a little new compared to a painting on a wall or a big elk chandelier in the atrium of a fancy lodge in Cody, Wyoming, etc. Here’s the rub – while trying to explain to them where to find my stories, it made me realize how many of theirs I was missing. Sometimes being a designer I wind up looking at things like color and paper stock and did they really use that font and I’ve been missing out on things like this:
