Design something good, you retard.
Next week we shall be highlighting some inspiring mind food for all you designers. No adverts for children’s play equipment, no useless faxes from someone you don't know telling you they like marmite or what the last CD they bought was. God I hate that bit in Landscape Design but you always find yourself reading it out of sheer desperation, go on, admit it, you do.
Landscape (design) magazine should realise that disappointment is the only emotion they and their readers will experience when anyone tries this hard to be cool.
Pure design filth for you depraved animals, if you have something you would like to send to me be it a sketch, a photo or some mobile phone clips of your last dogging experience then send them to -
friedeggpresident@hotmail.co.uk
In the words of Hunter S Thomson "You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt."
posted by Institute President at 4:36 PM
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More trite comments....I'll shut up after this one.....(bored waiting for the flickr uploader to finish).
'Landscape (design) magazine should realise that disappointment is the only emotion they and their readers will experience when anyone tries this hard to be cool.'
I note the demise of 30-under-30 - replaced by the fax-back thing and wonder as to the cause, one of the following perhaps:
1. Because there aren’t any more young Landscape Architects (they all change jobs for better paid less depressing careers after 2 years).
2. Landscape (Design) realised it would take them three years to finish the series which was taking up valuable irrigation system/ugly litter bin ad space + compressing the space available for the monthly 'which landscape architecture firm can waste the most money paying for full colour column inches in a magazine which is only read by other practitioners’ competition (otherwise known as the practice directory).
3. The LI banned it on the basis that every issue of their in-house magazine had a full page photograph of a landscape architect looking either; constipated, windswept (not in the ‘expensively clothed model way’, more the, ‘f**k I’m doing a site survey and the weather is s**t again’ way), or lastly like an extra from Hellraiser III. This of course meaning that they couldn't use it for publicity in schools as the LI’s education and membership executive was scaring 16 year-olds.
Any advances?
Cheers,
P.S.
Greatest Inspiration: Charlie Dimmock/Alan Titchmarsh/Dermot Gavin (I love them and I don’t care if that’s not how you spell their names).
Most Inspiring Landscape: The Marshalls paving test yard - can't get enough of that new SDS Tegula system.
Last CD: Generic-middle-of-the-road-compilation-cd + whatever album amazon.co.uk managed to sell me at a 'combination discount' with ‘Soul Diva power Vol.3-partF’.
Well said Mr Rea!
Maybe we should have a Fried Egg Institute awards ceremony? If it was well organised and had a decent guest speaker (not Boris Johnson!!!) then I might be tempted.....you could give out awards for the most dreadful landscape scheme of the year etc. Bit like the Hollywood Golden Raspberry Awards.
The Fried Egg Awards would be great. You could actually say what people really think of designs. One award could be for the supplier that sends the most crap out in the way of broachers and flyers etc. to an architect. You could call it the Most Persistent Supplier Award.
Just been put onto your blog. I know its yesterdays fish and chip wrapping, but i'm so glad there are fellows out there who hate the hideous and literally non-sense smash hits style Dear Blacktype, faxed Q&A fax back thing. All it does it make the contributor look either contrived or deeply unfunny, - something they all achieve with great panache. Keep up the good work dear president.
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