Not much of a blogger - Clare

Its not that I resist these wonderful growing social networking trends... I'm just not much of a blogger. But... there is a first time for everything! 

If you were to give me a glass of red wine I would babble on for hours and if you're lucky maybe throw in a few bad jokes. If you were to give me one of those big yellow foolscap (what a pointless size by the way) note pads and a smooth writing ball point pen, i could write you a book report on a book i haven't even read (flashback to  high school English) But for some reason typing out my thoughts in this little text box doesn't feel... well, natural! If this was facebook I could probably get away with writing 'Clare is writing a blog' and call it a day.

Im sure im not the only one out there who feels this way, so to help you all overcome this small obstacle, here are a few handy hints to help you pad out your blog entry:

1. COURIER  

Using Courier as a font is a rookie trick that dates back to my high school essay writing days. I remember the first year at school that I had a computer, god was I happy to discover Courier. With its fixed width characters and generous kerning, the letter 'i' all of a sudden becomes the same width as the letter 'w', turning your measly two paragraphs into a page of text with a click of a button! And the best thing is its a standard web font so it will always be around to make you look like a word-smith no matter where you are!

2. IMAGES

Nothing like a random pointless image to take up some space and create a visual break from all the Courier type on the page (see point 1). Now here's your chance to get creative kids  - there are plenty of images available on google images so you have no excuse.

Today I have chosen this image only because its freakin' awesome and I love beautiful typography. Its been sitting in my 'inspiration' folder all year and I have been dying to use it somehow, take a look and bow down!

If you want to check out some more fabulousness i recommend a visit to welovetypography.com

3. DON'T JUST SIT AROUND

No one wants to read someone's over-opinionated blog entry who sits around all day doing nothing. Try new things, get yourself out there - it makes for excellent conversation starters! Lucky for me, working at DPM  there's never a boring day! We are constantly working on exciting creative projects from logo design to books, packaging, marketing campaigns and beautiful print jobs, I would love to run you through some of them but we will save that for my next entry (yes, there will be a next entry)

So there it is folks! I think i could get use to this new and strange world of blogging! Will keep you posted!

logo development and logo design as well as graphic design by dpm. circle is a sydney band or rather an australian band based in enmore and enmore audio is an awesome recording studio.