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I forgot to mention that my blog has moved to Tumblr. Check it out:

Joe Lamour Everyday

New posts- you guessed it you smart devil- everyday.

I'm trying my hand at doing one of those graphic-designer-playing-around-with-quotes posters.

This is a not so quick study that I did for my upcoming poster. The best part about this is that it appears I invented a photoshop technique for something: glitter. Go figure. :)

I should have the actual thing finished... soon...ish.

I haven't blogged about fashion in a long while... and I'm trying to make this a Joe-Lamour-Art-Related blog only, but I think this is okay since I'm planning on making this necklace here:

There probably is nothing to say that hasn't been said. So I will leave you with my all time favorite song by the one, the only (understatement), Michael Jackson:



In conclusion (to everyone else's in the universe's thoughts): Crazy, yes - so we'll choose to ignore it today and talk about awesome pop music from the 80's. Rest in peace.

Number of Songs: 12,707
Most Recently Played Song: Little Boots - New in Town
Most Played Song: M83 - Skin of the Night
Most Recently Added Album: Little Boots - Hands

First Song Alphabetically: Vampire Weekend - A Punk
Last Song Alphabetically: Basement Jaxx - Zoomalude
Smallest Song Numerically: Sol Seppy - 1 2
Biggest Song Numerically: Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies

Shortest Song: Janet Jackson - Interlude: Memory (0:05)
Longest Song: Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline (18:08)

First Album Alphabetically: Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Last Album Alphabetically: Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
First Album Numerically: Beatles - 1 (Even though its a compillation)
Last Album Numerically: Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

First Five Songs That Pop Up On Shuffle:
Louis Armstrong - La vie en rose (Single Version)
Joss Stone - Less Is More
Tresspassers William - My Hands Up
Aqualung - The Lake
Death Cab for Cutie - Lightness

Interesting. To me, at least.

Reblogged from Triumph of BS

Hi Everyone!

I decided that I wanted my blog to more closely reflect my upcoming website, so I switched a few colors around. It also had an additional positive in that it's a little more legible around here. Which is always a plus.

Here is the first draft of a little something I'm doing for my 9-5, an educational software company. The aim was to have a school subject (this one being astronomy) leap off the screen, and hopefully if the head honcho likes it enough, it'll be featured as a full marketing campaign.

I looked at some tutorials on how to get an aurora borealis look in photoshop at design sites Abduzeedo and looking at the art of James White, Justin Maller and God himself, but it took me a hell of a long time to get the fairly realistic look that I wanted. All and all, I think this was a pretty good go at it. I think I have a little refining to do... I'll keep you (all three of you) updated!

So my blog now fits thematically with my website, and my twitter. Excellence in motion. Now on to business card designs. And actually finishing my website and getting collateral together and taking my bio picture and...


picture from awkwardfamilyphotos.com

I'm changing my blogger theme. It's not this one, don't worry, but will be a fantastic reflection of www.joelamour.com . Now, if to figure this all out...

This must be some record! I blogged not once, but two times in a row.

I, again, have resigned my logo. I'm glad I didn't order those business cards! For this redesign, I refer to one of my favorite design blogs, BrandNew for an image-and-explain format:

So, the reason I switched logos is that the first logo I designed was made from one of my favorite fonts, and the thing is just that... it was a font. It was pretty, yes, but my hand just wasn't in it. So, I took the original letterforms as a illustration and I actually hand drew my initials.

I feel as if my logo says this: that my work is elegant, but still has aesthetically pleasing imperfections that make my work so endearing. Also it shows I know both vector design (graphic design) and hand drawing (illustration), which are the two main services I provide.

Redesign of this blog (and its header) and identity to follow soon. Hurray for change!

I know guys. The three of you who read my blog have been asking: where in the world have the posts been? Well all I can say is I apologize. Just know, as long as I still do art, and blogger is still in business, this blog will be updated... eventually.

I've been designing my new website for a while, and I've even had the web space for a full two months without even loading a coming soon splash page. Silly me. But all that is fixed! I have a theme, and consistent branding, et.cetera.

So this is what my site will look like eventually. A little more variety in the way of thumbnails, though. Stay tuned!

These randomly generated images in the bottom left corner (from ffffound) interact in a nifty way.

On the left, my picture, on the right, Kanye. 

My picture was taken about a year ago.

I had no advance knowledge of his picture, 

Adams Glad Idol Wasn't Around When She Was A Kid

Doubt star Amy Adams is glad American Idol didn't exist when she was growing up - because it would have wrecked her dream of becoming a star.

The actress is a huge fan of the U.S. talent show, and she fears if it had aired when she was young, she would have been among the hopefuls turning up to auditions - and that would have been a disaster.

She explains, "I would have taken my ill-suited pop voice and gone in and sung some musical theatre song, and they would have put it on air, and I would never, ever (have) ended up here.

"I would have humiliated myself publicly and probably shrunk off and done something else with my life."

From IMDB.

Does Resort simply mean casual? (How awesome is this model's expression. She's wondering why she's wearing a teapot as a skirt.)

I love fashion blog The Sunday Best. I can't find any information about the blogger, but I from what I can discern he is funny and Canadian. His blog covers everything from what he's wearing that day to flavorful commentary (like about Isaac Misrahi's 2009 Resort Collection) to even a comic (about fashion, but still a comic- it looks very Monty Python to me). So you should check it out.

I'm watching Charade right now and the clothes in it are absolutely magical.




All of Audrey's clothes are by Givenchy. I'd give anything to dress like this every day.