#also I think I made Mac a bit derby

[deadshadowcreature]

Them interacting would be really funny

#my art #comic #shitpost #nezha #lego monkie kid #lmk #lego #monkie kid #third lotus prince #macaque #six eared macaque #liu er mihou #I believe Nezha is still unhinged up to this day #The special is getting closer and I CAN FEEL IT #also I think I made Mac a bit derby #I think I made Mac’s eyes a bit derpy but it also fit the reaction

[the-firebird69]

Watch "1978 Bradley Gt II driving" on YouTube

Towards the end of it he said basically it's kind of a Porsche motor because the VW is Porsche he's looking around going no way and he knew you could get up to 180 with a performance package no his went about 120 as Jason and about a year ago so we put the package in it goes 180 and sunset one thing before you're done you might want to bolt the thing down again put the brakes on and suspension cuz you're going to need it and tires I don't know what your rims are you checked it all out and said the rims and tires suck so you redid it with a VW scirocco and he got out there and the thing was going 200 miles an hour and he's going around the corners he said no way she decided to repaint it and you said I go to the stock color with a GT decal Bradley GT and they see what it can do and I'm trying to get it going again and of course you be involved I mean we need to distributors and I need an idea of mine where you have a warehouse with the kids and you have parts there so they can buy parts from you right at the warehouse and sell more cars and there's one thing you ought to know that this is very steeped in code and Mac wants to use it against me and it's very hard for me to get any pill and hearts it for me to sell and he doesn't want anybody else making them nothing you can't try but that's what he says so he tried and says I can't do it and he said there's nobody against me and it's all these people this is how you guys going to do it he says I don't know why should we hahaha and all of a sudden people are smiling this is how it goes these people say they're going to do one thing and they don't and they don't do it at all but he says he might really some and at this time and they're going after these cars. And Big Joe looked at it and said this is the car that goes 6,000 miles an hour he looked at closer and say no way it's a little modification of course and you know all high performance and on its own chassis and he said that's probably it and then he said why I said why not said that fast cuz I don't know it was Hera's mom's front end a little bit and the rear end I was kind of from that too it's sort of a Shelby then they have to change it back to what it was in The pinewood Derby and that guy Mike the maintenance man took my win and gave it to his first clone and just had dad Haddad and I won the race and they said I was disqualified when they weigh the car every time so we're getting on that he said and he got the video and they make copies and they sent it out so we're going to sue for that too and so this is the car that we used to take down the clones because they are trying to make this work for their friend and they and the clones ruined it

Thor Freya

I'm actually driving the car no it's Jason and he's saying it's me right here no he's not okay that's lame Jesus Christ this car can't be made and we're out there looking at it and we forgot where it was and it's not there okay so we know where it is and where JC was or is

Tommy f

Who's all goes it's going to be used against the clones but really it's going to be used against them and they know about it but they need the molds and we know why. You had a hand in making them and no he's snuck in and made them and people want to know how they said just like making any other mold I learned it in Junior high and it started laughing he said no we mean how did you do it well I snuck in and I made them. That was with Hera I think that's where the dating stuff started also they got really mad and said this is stupid this guy was making himself it's kind of rough isn't it she's laughing nothing smooth or even

Thor Freya

It's time to get along better yes and it's good we're going to have a lot of fun we have a competition today and we have awarded the winners they're manufacturing now it's a great idea to put your stuff out there and see if it works and we have the old stuff too and very old stuff from goo and oh yeah and that stuff worked pretty good it's for a different purpose but we are helping them get new stuff off the ground and a couple other countries or areas South America Pakistan was a surprise in India and the Middle East and we're going on it now

Zig Zag

They need a lot of help and we're moving out there's too many clones and we have to do thin them out and immediately and it's for her safety too

Thor Freya the space war is going to make it happen and it's non-stop this huge ships fighting Tommy F send half his fleet and a quarter of that is gone the others lost probably 15 to 20% in some cases mostly 15% the Mohawk lost 50% of what they have left but they want a piece of them and it's out there still with big ships and they're sending all sorts of stuff really fast stuff and he's got to use all his energy on it and everybody else can hit him while he's doing it it's working

Olympus

#Youtube

[theawkwardterrier]

How about 14 + 21, dealer's choice pairing?

On This Thanksgiving Day

Prompt: Stuck together for a long period of time/“They’re wrong about you.”

Summary: Sloan’s first time meeting Don’s family doesn’t go particularly well. (The dialogue came to me in Thomas Sadoski’s voice, so I guess the dealer wanted Don/Sloan for you, Sarah.)

“Apparently we don’t have very good luck on trips together,” Sloan says, although not precisely to him. She’s facing out the window, as if she can see anything other than pitch blackness - as if there would be anything to see, even in the daylight. They hadn’t made it much past Derby-Shelton when the train had broken down; he’d guess that if they could see more than darkness and their own reflections, they’d mostly be staring out at Naugatuck State Forest.

Which might offer a distraction to make things a bit less awkward, but not by much.

“I’m not exactly in a hurry to get anywhere this time,” he says, trying for humor. “Luckily there isn’t much urgent news to report on Thanksgiving.”

“There isn’t always much urgent news to report on May 1 of any given year.”

“Well, sometimes we just get lucky.”

She turns toward him then. Her hair, which she had taken down from whatever fancy style it had been pinned up in earlier, swings forward, briefly obscuring her face. “Is that how you feel? Lucky?”

“I feel lucky with you every day,” he says truthfully. He can’t tell if she believes him. Either way, she does not smile, although after the day they’ve had, he wouldn’t really expect her to.

It had been an easy decision to ask Sloan to come home with him. Her parents retired to Arizona the previous January, and if it already didn’t make much sense for her to fly across the country for barely a weekend, they had told her months ago that her brothers would be at their in-laws, they had no plans on cooking, and they were booked for mixed doubles with the Drummers on Friday.

Don’s family, by contrast, would all be gathering back at his childhood home, a quick couple of hours on the Metro-North. He and Sloan had been dating for over a year now. It would have made sense to ask her even if she wasn’t facing down a holiday weekend of takeout and economics journals alone in her apartment (regardless of the fact that she had set aside a few of the “best issues” to enjoy).

He knew it was a mistake from the moment they walked in the door.

Despite his mother’s thanks, it was clear that she thought the bottle of wine Sloan had picked out was pretentious, and she eyed the sheath dress Sloan wore, with its gray, black, and white geometric design, as if deciding precisely how excessively formal it was for a small family gathering. Don, having seen Sloan’s closet, could have told her that this was one of the more informal options, at least not counting workout clothes or lingerie, but started in on small talk instead before offering Sloan a tour of the house.

Those few moments of watching her smile at the pictures of him hanging along the hallway - round in a Christmas sweater at age three, a gawky, grinning advertisement for the necessity of orthodontia at twelve, only slightly less gawky and slightly more grinning in his high school graduation photo - and hearing her tease about what embarrassing poster had once been taped in the large, discolored place above his bed...it still wasn’t quite enough to get him through the rest of the day.

Sloan didn’t watch whatever show his mom and sister and sister-in-law were going back and forth about, and she had little interest in entertaining the brigade of Keefer kids roaming around. She furrowed her brow as she sat next to Don in the family room and tried to get him to explain all the minutiae of football even as the others were trying to watch the Eagles. She was perfectly polite, asking questions of everyone and telling them about her family, her work, her interests when asked, but it was obvious from the glances traded around the table that the others noticed the slight hitch to her cadence and the way she didn’t always laugh at the jokes being told, and that it mattered to them.

As they dug into turkey and Mom’s excellent stuffing and terrible sweet potato pie, his dad (who clearly didn’t think the wine pretentious, or at least not enough to be a problem) started talking about how all he saw on the news these days was these protests, and of course it was a shame when things went wrong, but cops were just trying to protect themselves and didn’t need to be lectured by those who didn’t know what it was like on the ground day to day - he had friends who were cops, and they were just trying to do right and get home to their families, and was it any wonder they had to react like they did, considering the damage being done out in the streets? Don, who had tried and eventually learned to bite his tongue when it came to this conversation, placed a hand on Sloan’s knee, but she went ahead anyway, citing statistics and studies and historical precedent, all while the others looked at her as if she was exactly the kind of person by whom they didn’t want to be lectured.

Still, they might have been able to push through, except that Don’s brother cornered him on the way back from the bathroom and asked...well, Don’s blocked out the exact wording, but the implication was that he wondered if the pictures he’d seen of Sloan online did her justice.

After Don had punched Rich, sticking around for Black Friday brunch and leftovers didn’t seem to be in the cards.

“I can be a little bit of an acquired taste,” Sloan says, leaning forward and resting her forearms on her thighs. “I know that might be shocking, considering how charming I am—”

“Exactly the word I’d use.”

She throws him a glare for the dry tone, but he’s glad for it; it makes her look a bit more like herself. “So, I’m used to not always being liked. But they...I was really not liked back there.”

“They’re wrong about you.” The carriage is empty except for them - luckily for those who don’t want to be trapped on a broken down train, the middle of the evening on Thanksgiving doesn’t seem an especially popular time to travel into the city - and they had been able to take seats facing each other. He leans toward her, but does not take her hand. “Hey. They’re wrong about you. You know that, right? Sure, you’re single-minded, a little bit weird, a frequent pain in my ass—”

“I have yet to hear the part about them being wrong.”

“—but you’re also kind and loyal and wildly ethical and the smartest person I know and pretty solidly better than I deserve. And I just happen to be related to a bunch of assholes who can’t recognize that.”

Her knee bumps against his. “I imagine Christmas is going to be a pain when you have to spend time with a bunch of assholes.”

“Christmas was already a pain for that and many other reasons,” he says. “And honestly, maybe I won’t go back for it. Maybe I won’t go back next Thanksgiving either.”

She doesn’t look at him like he’s crazy. Instead, her face folds into concentration, as if she is trying to figure out a puzzle. Slowly she says, “I don’t know that you can just give up on your family because of the one time that they weren’t nice to your girlfriend.”

“They’ve never been nice to my girlfriends because, again, they’re assholes.” He settles against his seatback and makes sure she is looking at him before he says, “I’ll probably end up seeing them again because I’m not quite lucky enough in life to avoid it. But when I have the choice, I want to spend as much time as I can with the family that taught me to be better than them. So maybe next year we’ll rope Mac and Will into eating dry turkey with us - or hey, he can probably swing for some that actually tastes good.”

“You know that Mac will make us say things that we’re thankful for, and she and Will are going to get into an argument about the legacy of Thanksgiving even though they essentially agree with each other.”

“Well, maybe we’ll cook—” Her eyebrow raise is sharp and perfect as always. “Okay, we’ll get takeout together. Because I swear to God, Sloan, sitting around having popcorn shrimp with you sounds like a much better time than anything involving my mother’s pecan pie.”

“I was actually looking forward to the pie,” she says a little longingly, but she moves to sit in the seat beside him and lean her head on his shoulder, not even startling as the PA system crackles to overly loud life.

“Sorry, folks, we’re going to have to go dark here for a sec as we try to get things back online, but we hope to have you on your way shortly.”

“Hey,” Don says in the moment before the lights go out. “You know that I’m thankful for this, don’t you? Just getting to be here with you.”

“No one’s thankful for a train breakdown, Don,” she says, voice sounding as if she’s shaking her head at him. And he can feel the stupid smile coming over his face anyway as the overheads power off, leaving them with only the eerie emergency lighting. Who knows how long they’ll have to sit here like this considering the amount of faith he has in the MTA? He rests his head on top of Sloan’s. He can wait. They’ll get home together eventually.

#The Newsroom #Newsroom fic #Sloan Sabbith #Don Keefer #Don/Sloan #eh #lavellenchanted

[cricketrigby]

* ( kristine froseth ) ⁠— cricket rigby has lived in somewhere for 23 years, which is crazy considering they are only twenty three.  you can usually find her working at the somewhere roller rink . when i think of strawberry bubblegum, heart shaped sunglasses, & twirling the stem of a rose between your fingertips, i can’t help but think of them as well. ( pepper, twenty four, she/her, est )

ABOUT THE MUN.  sick of thinking! won’t be doing that again

hello all! my name is pepper and i have never been on time for anything ever in my life so it’s pretty fitting that i’m the last one to get my intro up dkjdkj love this for me,,, always on brand. anyways, i am Returning to the rpc kind of maybe after a month hiatus and i wanted something cute and chill to try and get back into the swing of things... i’m hoping this group will be that! but yeah please bear with me i am Definitely going to be a bit rusty,,,, and i am sorry in advance. but Anyways, enough about that and onto some fun facts about me. to start, i just turned twenty four two weeks ago and i am Still in shock about it so jot that down, i hate it here. i have like,,, the opposite of a green thumb, i have killed every plant i have ever had, rip peter the succulent you were a good egg. i regularly say i’m feeling ___ in this chillis tonight despite never being to chillis. i enjoy garbage movies, like the worse it is the better (tyler perry movies, the fast and the furious series, etc). i straight up don’t get like critically acclaimed movies i’m ngl,,, like really like Great movies go straight over my head rip but Anyways moving on to who we’re all here for, ms cricket rigby ! 

BIO.  we need sluttier music….. 

cricket juliet rigby was born to arthur godwin rigby and sonya marie rigby nee bankcult right here in good old somewhere florida. the story is that her parents were actually on their way out of town when cricket decided to ‘jump’ out of her mother’s belly and arrive to the party early. her parents always liked to tell the story like it was cute or funny or something but kit always saw it a bit differently. she had her chance to get out and she screwed it up. and now she’s literally never left this hell hole since. it’s like she got impatient and accidentally screwed herself over for it. and if that isn’t foreshadowing for the rest of her life she doesn’t know what is.

it was her mom’s idea to name her cricket. she said it was because of the way she used to kick with both legs in the womb. like she was jumping. her father found her name ridiculous and insisted on calling her juliet, but that was to be expected. her mother was always the fanciful one out of the pair of them. you see, ricki’s father was a pretty successful lawyer and her mother was a children’s book illustrator. to put it simply her father was the type of person to give kids floss on halloween and her mother was the type to slip you a cookie when the ‘adults’ weren’t looking. they were complete opposites, honestly to the point where sometimes cricket didn’t even understand how her parents got together. but somehow against all odds they did, and they stayed together to boot. loved each other too. her mother always made her father loosen up a bit and her father usually kept her mother grounded. they suited each other, and they adored each other in a way cricket never really saw any other parents doing. well, until they didn’t. 

if cricket didn’t understand how her parents got together she sure understood why they didn’t stay together. you’d have to be blind as a bat to not see that one coming.

her parents fought constantly as cricket got older. the kind of loud, explosive fights that woke a kid up in the middle of the night and made the neighbors look at you with sympathy. there was no abuse or anything serious like that, or even cheating. her parents simply stopped liking each other. and that was honestly even scarier. that her parents could simply wake up one day and not like each other anymore. 

they called it quits when cricket turned thirteen. her mother broke the news to her over a shared joint on the beach. and honestly, it wasn’t really the kind of news you wanted to process while high, but well, nobody ever asked cricket. nobody ever really asked cricket anything. 

but well, her mother asked cricket one thing. to break the news to her little sister. cause yeah, she had one of those. kimberly. a regular sensible name for a regular sensible girl. not that there’s anything wrong with being regular or sensible. it’s just that cricket and her mother were neither of those things. if cricket took after her mother, then kimberly took after their father. her baby sister wanted to be an accountant for god’s sake. what six year old wants to be an accountant? 

anyways, cricket played messenger. she broke the news to her sister and comforted her in the aftermath. she listened to her mother as she told fanciful, beautiful stories about how much more she wanted from her life. and one sunny thursday afternoon, the very thursday she got her first period, the very thursday that a girl really needs her mom, like really needs her mom, she came home and didn’t have one anymore. or a sister either apparently. all she had was a dad crumpled on the living room floor around a heart shaped sticky note of all things. 

who leaves their fucking family with a fucking sticky note?

apparently dad was the only one in the family who didn’t know he and mom were over. cricket would feel bad about it if she wasn’t so busy feeling sorry for herself. because apparently her mother packed up her and kimmy’s things, picked up kimberly from school and just left somewhere forever. leaving cricket behind. just like that. cricket didn’t understand it. just the night before her and her mother were laying back on her bed, laughing. and now she was tossed aside like a discarded toy. second best in a two person race. cricket had never quite dealt with abandonment until that moment, but her first taste of it hurt like a bitch. it hurt all over. 

but things only got worse. cause then came stella. stella was cricket’s godmother. her mother’s best friend. the woman who would slip cricket money so she could buy herself a red lipstick at the mac counter or pick herself up that tube top she’d been wanting so badly. the woman who came with cricket and her mother when she got her first bra. the woman who was supposed to be there for her in the aftermath of all this. but apparently stella took the job a bit too seriously. 

she fucked her father. and not long after that she married him. cricket fought them every step of the way, but they still did it. and well, she had to live with it. her mother and best friend was gone, and this impostor was taking her place. and her father was just letting it all happen. in fact he was happy to do it. that’s what he kept telling her anyways. to let him be happy. that he deserved to be happy. but didn’t she deserve to be happy too?

her mother sent letters sometimes, and kimmy would occasionally call the house. cricket never opened the letters, and she never really spoke much to kimmy. i mean, it wasn’t kimberly’s fault, and cricket knew that. after all, she was six. she never had a choice either. but cricket couldn’t help being jealous of the little shit. kimberly missed dad so much and she wanted to come home. but she was out of somewhere, and she was with mom. she had everything cricket ever wanted and she wasn’t even appreciating it. it was a hard pill to swallow. eventually cricket started cutting the calls short. 

cricket and her father never saw eye to eye. he kicked her out of the house when she was seventeen after an argument between cricket and stella got so bad that things got physical on both their parts. and instead of kicking out the woman who hit his daughter, arthur got rid of the daughter instead. cricket didn’t mind. she simply went to live with her boyfriend at the time (who much like all of cricket’s boyfriends in the past was handsome, cool, and most importantly old enough to have his own place). after that she never really turned back. just... moved from boyfriends place to boyfriends place to girlfriends place to boyfriends place. saw her dad on holidays or when she needed money or under duress. and stayed in somewhere. for now. 

PERSONALITY.  feeling like the prettiest girl in the crawl space right now

as you can probably tell from that mess of an bio, this is my first time playing cricket so i don’t really have her personality nailed down yet BUT

ECCENTRIC. cricket got her mother’s weird hippy gene for sure honestly. she might even be an artist lowkey because of it. definitely is the type to just say weird as hell shit without shame. your local manic pixie dream girl tbh 

PROMISCUOUS. she a hoe and that’s a fact. love that for her though! gets around and is pretty shameless about it honestly. just here for a good time. kind of charming naturally and just generally like?? flirtatious?? the type to flirt with a cop to get out of a ticket. also the type to cry to get out of a really bad dad. the type to go on a date just cause her fridge is empty and yk a girl’s gotta eat. the kind of girl who had a bunch of rumours about her in high school like that she slept with so and so under the bleachers at an assembly or that she once did something nearly impossible on a trampoline. 

CONTRADICTORY. cricket is a compassionate person but she can also hold a grudge for a long ass time. still doesn’t really talk to her mom or little sister. but if you need a ride across town cricket will just give it to you even if she barely knows you. if you’re hungry and come to the roller rink she will slip you some fries free of charge even if she’ll probably get in trouble for it. will fight her stepmom ON SIGHT and slam a bitch down during roller derby but like will get so excited over something simple like the moon being out sdkdskj this bitch makes no sense y’all. 

MYSTERIOUS. at least to other people i feel like. cricket doesn’t really talk about herself or serious things, and she will change the topic if someone is getting too close. she’s the type who doesn’t open up easy, and therefore the type that a lot of guys like... idealize and build up into this mysterious untouchable thing yk? but she’s just a dumb girl who doesn’t want to talk about her feelings underneath it all sdkjdkj she’s just stupid

HEADCANNONS. at least whatever is wrong with me is really really funny 

lost her virginity at fourteen around the anniversary of her mother leaving. unfortunately the type who seeks love and acceptance in all the wrong places. tends to self sabotage when things are too good, or literally just go for people who are bad for her. bi af tho hey~ has been in more relationships than she can count for sure. will duck behind a wall when she sees any of her exes at the grocery store.

does ROLLER DERBY! will fight a bitch in the ring! very good at it despite how cute and angelic she looks sdksdk can and WILL slam a bitch into a wall. it’s just a fun hobby for her, but she loved the camraderie of it honestly. her team is a ragtag group of misfits and i Love them 

like i said in the chat, will now put up posters around town with a cute little polaroid of herself and her number on those little tab things just for shits and giggles to see who calls. will completely prank anyone who does call for fun

idk why but i feel like the roller rink is called l8r sk8r or something cheesy like that,,, i feel it in my Soul. also imagine the type of place where cricket goes around on rollerblades serving food, so yeah, you can order food probably and some showy girl on rollerblades will serve it to you 

has been a muse before. like guys have written songs about her in high school. one guy painted a portrait of her and it went in a literal gallery. is always very flattered but very like,,, cool thanks bye! 

i totally forgot to include this but the rigby’s are rich y’all. like country club rich. her daddy’s got that big money and their house is Huge but you would never be able to tell by the way cricket acts, she’s a mess.

speaking of, her name is indeed cricket (rip) but you can call her kit, kitty, rick, ricki, jiminey,,, all of it is valid 

the vibe is madchen amick folks,,, that’s the whole vibe and honestly she’s probably cricket’s style inspo like twin peaks??? maybe her favourite show

a feel like she might also be a lifeguard as a side hustle, but she only ever fills in when no one else can you know. she’s the emergency call in, and when she’s there she spends most of her time sitting in her lifeguard chair in her little red swim suit and flirting with whoever comes by to see her like sdkjsd is she good at her job? no. does she bring traffic to the beach? probably! 

WANTED CONNECTIONS.  i’m saving my brain for special occasions. if i use it every day it’ll get dirty

i would love an ex for her honestly,,, an ex bf or gf where cricket sabotaged things just when they were getting good? an ex on good terms maybe! an ex will they won’t they thing where they almost got together but never did? an old childhood crush for either party! a childhood enemy is also sexy! an old neighbor! someone who’s sibling she used to date or something! someone new to town that she’s intrigued by! someone new to town she doesn’t get along with (maybe cause of a bad first impression or something?) a one night stand! a fwb! a ewb! a BEST FRIEND GOD PLEASE! m or f i am down either way. i would kill for a girl squad though. maybe an ex best friend who hates cricket cause she slept with their boyfriend in high school or something. a party friend! someone she does roller derby with. someone she always sees in the crowd during roller derby. idk someone who she regularly sees at the motel she has her hookups at, maybe cause they’re also hooking up or maybe cause they just come to the motel often for some reason or honestly maybe they’re a vacationer that would make sense. uh someone she saved from drowning one time! OH someone she pretended to be dating to make an ex jealous or avoid one or something at one point,,,and anything else tbh we can absolutely brain storm! like this and i will slide into your dms <3

#vthqintro #kristine's smile in the gif above... that's it that's the tag #c.r. | bio.

[annasdesignblog-blog]

Week 7 - Practitioner Meet Up

I have originally planned on visiting a studio, as this is the type of environment I would ideally like to work in after graduating at university, so seeing what one works like would be a good experience. Unfortunately, trying to visit a studio for even a maximum of 20 minutes had proven to be very difficult and I didn’t receive many responses from studios willing to let me come visit due to them being very busy. I have decided to instead look into freelance and individual designers as a contrast to studio work – I have received some responses this time, and the work of one artist in particular caught my eye. After a week or so of planning, I have met up with a local Derby graphic designer on the 14th March. 

The designer was Kieran Harrod, an independent Creative Director and Graphic Designer, practicing design since 1999 – his website can be viewed here: https://derby.graphics/. Kieran was very modest and very polite all throughout our meeting; we have met at Rask on Sadler Gate, a coffee shop right next to Sadler Gate studios where Kieran can be found every Thursday using the studio space. 

Sadler Gate Studios, Bauman Lyons photography.

The meeting consisted of me asking questions I have prepared, and a general chat and advice at the end. I have started by asking Kieran about his background and how he got into the industry:

How did you get into the industry?  

“I have studied design at Chesterfield College late 80s; at that time, Chesterfield College was the place in Derbyshire to study design. I have then got into University of Staffordshire to study Multimedia Graphic Design, however I wasn’t exactly happy with my experience as I found my lecturers not very helpful or useful. I then worked a couple of jobs, and then had a breakthrough working at UMC Group Ltd as a Mac Operator, designing brochures, websites, banners, posters and exhibitions as part of a small in house marketing team. After about 2 years, I got promoted to a Marketing Manager, managing three other team members and gaining new responsibilities. After that, I was a Writer for LogoCurious.us, which is a collection of images, links and articles relating to logo design and branding - it's a collection of my thoughts on logo design from around the world. After this, I became a freelance designer due to starting a family as I wanted something more flexible and to fit my schedule around theirs.”

Can you tell me more about being a freelance designer?

“Before deciding to go independent, I have created a business place which I learnt about on a course I did – “Expanding Enterprise” – which looked at finances, cash flow, taxes etc. They made me calculate how much I need to earn, my cost and made me also think about how I would go about getting my business. I have a website which is my main platform to get business – half of my clients come from this, whilst the rest are word of a mouth and a good reputation. Getting your name out there is so important, and a good reputation really helps that. I find that I have more responsibilities being a freelance designer in comparison to when I worked in house – I have to arrange meetings, market and promote myself, invoicing and the actual work itself. When I have the time, I do school visits to try to get them to be interested in graphic design as well as doing visits like this one with you today – this is something I wouldn’t have been able to do if I weren’t freelance. So I’d say freelance has definitely much more flexibility, however the pay isn’t constant so that’s a big factor to consider when going freelance.”

How do you go about designing something as a freelance designer?

“I always start off my researching the company I am working for and create an aesthetic I want to work with based on that research. The research can either be through the company’s website or I will call them up and ask them to tell me more about the company that way. I then start to think about design – I never Google already existing logos as I want to create something unique, and I don’t like being literal in my design. I design using my style of geometric shapes and modernist influences; I’m not very illustrative. I then create a couple of mock-ups, and it goes from there – depends on how much the client has paid what I do next”. 

Do you have constant business / work flow?

“I only do work that’s worth my time and the money in all honesty. Many of my customers come back, so I have regulars who require new designs. I have a good relationship with them – they respect my opinion when it comes to design, and in return I give them my time and an outcome that they are satisfied with.”

Do you mainly work digitally or do anything by hand?

“I always start any ideas by sketching. I also sketch when I can when I’m out and about – I carry my bullet journal on me always as I also take notes there too of things I have to do as a reminder.”

Kieran has then shown me his current bullet journal and the rough sketches and ideas in it.

Do you mainly work with Derby based companies?

“Mostly yes, but I do work all around Derbyshire, as well as having worked with companies from Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire previously too. It’s easier if a company is quite local as I like to meet up in person to talk ideas out with the customer and I can become valuable to them this way as they can see me as an expert on all things design.”

Do you keep in touch with the design community in Derby?

“A little bit in all honesty – I don’t think I network as much as I should. I talk to the designers who I share the studio space with – when I work at Sadler Gate studios, I get to socialise with many designers as the studios are so busy; it’s a hub of creative people. You really do get results from networking though, so perhaps this is one of my goals for the future – to network more.”

What do you do when you’re not designing?

“I mainly focus on my family as I have four children. We enjoy playing with Lego together and watching things about Lego on YouTube. I also love board games, and encourage my kids to play too. I am a keen podcast and radio listener too.” 

What is your favourite project you’ve worked on?

“Skyeland Soft Play Logo & Branding project I worked on (the full project can be viewed here: https://derby.graphics/portfolio_page/skyeland-soft-play-logo-branding/). 

However, I didn’t charge enough for the amount of work I’ve produced for them! The company came to me with a firm idea, like most companies do, which I followed but gave my own insight to achieve the final logo.”   

What are you currently working on, if anything? 

“I am currently working with Corporate Hire company from Derby who are all about hiring audio and visual equipment. I am creating branding for them, which is what I like – I prefer creating a whole branding identity, instead of just a logo as I like getting to know the brand. I am also creating artwork for a DJ, based in Derby again, that would go on Spotify and iTunes, a brochure for an embroidery business, and branding for a security company. I normally have multiple projects to work on rather than just one, and I prioritise my customers based on the money they paid as different amount of money gets different attention I pay to the customer.”   

What are your plans for the next couple of years, if any? 

“I’ve been freelance for years now and my biggest stress is time, so to solve this I have been thinking about expanding and hiring more staff to work alongside me but this would require starting from scratch again as I would have to create a whole new studio, and even company perhaps. However, I would need more money for this so either getting more business or charging more, which isn’t exactly what I want to do though. This is an idea for when my kids grow up more and start high school, so maybe in like 4 or 5 years.”   

Are you satisfied with your business?

“Yes – I am very lucky I get to design everyday as it’s something I love. I don’t like the invoicing, tax etc side of it, but apart from that I love everything else. It can be difficult money wise sometimes when I have no business or don’t get paid much, however those are rare. The work hours vary which I like again as it’s exciting and never dull.”    

After about an hour of me finding out about Kieran’s work and being a freelance designer in general, we had a general chat about design and Kieran was keen on finding more about my design and university experience so projects I’ve worked on, currently am working on and what I want to do in the next couple of years. This led to Kieran giving me loads of tips and advice on putting a portfolio, as he himself has hired people before and judged many portfolios: 

Include around 6 really good pieces of work you are happy with 

This work has to make you stand out – so don’t include projects that are very common, such as album covers

Make the effort to meet the person hiring or visiting the company in person as it makes a very good impression – shows that you care, and your work will definitely be looked at 

Show a variety of work if you consider yourself versatile

Be accurate always – no spelling errors, bad quality prints etc.     

When I voiced my concern about not having much work I actually want to include in my portfolio, Kieran suggested I should look at briefs online or do some branding for a charity to boost my portfolio – he strongly said not to do fake briefs, as those simply don’t work as your work isn’t ‘real’.  

After about an hour and a half at Rask, Kieran invited me to Sadler Gate studios, for a quick visit to see what the workspace looked like – the workspace was made up of one room, with a large window, a desk in the middle of the room and a book shelf on the other side. It was really spacious, clear and neat.

This meet up was really useful to me as I now understand what being a freelance designer is looks like, and that it is actually more than just about having more free time, being flexible and only designing – there are many more responsibilities included as you are managing yourself.   

Action Plan:

The portfolio advice has inspired me to research what makes a strong portfolio, and what I would need to show if I were to make one to go into my preferred areas of Graphic Design – so branding and editorial. This will be really useful to know as this is vital when applying for jobs.

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This is the last thing I reblogged! Go look at that. But I figured no one would ask it

1: yeah I guess. Not like heeheehoohoo I’m gonna skip school bcuz yucky XP but like I used to leave class A LOT in elementary and middle school because I would have really bad anxiety and like sensory issues and stuff and I didn’t want to cry in class because I would always get yelled at for that because it’s “distracting” from 4th grade to the end of middle school I switched to a k-8th charter school and the teachers there were a lot more accepting and accommodating but I still felt the need to leave class a lot.

2-7: Nope!

I don’t have a favorite anything but I’ll try

8: community is probably my favorite live action show (a good second is parks and rec) I like a lot of cartoons but my favorite is probably bobs burgers just because it’s really consistent in its quality and insanely funny and I really relate to a lot of it (then ducktales ‘17 then darkwing duck then maybe adventure time)

9: oh god. I don’t watch enough movies for this. A really good movie that I could watch over and over is Mr Peabody and Sherman. But that’s probably not my favorite. I think my favorite Disney movie is Hercules

10: I definitely don’t have one of these. I really like Sara by Fleetwood Mac and I think that one is a good go to for a “favorite” song

11: this is such a fucking weird question but I think a really great artist on tumblr is @ilee-font

12: fun maybe? Top five in no order is probably Duran Duran, fun, simple plan, Fleetwood Mac, and ABBA

13: don’t have any.

14: oh god I only read kids books,,,, I like “top ten ways to ruin the first day of school” by Ken derby and “my life in pink and green” by Lisa greenwald and it’s not really a “book” so much as a play but The Scottish Play is probably my favorite Shakespeare work

15: flight. What would I even use invisibility for? Hiding? I could just hang on the ceiling like they do in movies

16: cookies?

17: I don’t really use either so I guess Twitter because I can’t comprehend Facebook and I only use it for theatre

18: surprise surprise I don’t really like either all that much but I guess movies because they’re easier to carve time out for and you can easily share them with others. Also my capability of watching movies isn’t really something I can be insecure about

19: coke. Sprite gives me stomach aches for some reason.

20: I’ve never felt comfortable with these kinds of questions. It’s not really something you should take as lightly as “coke or sprite”

21: I don’t like either but I guess I do like frappachinos so,,,,

22: no.

23: cancer

24: no.

25: bi

26: creepy

27: don’t have one. I do believe in certain bits and pieces of things but I don’t really feel a need to have one myself

28: I stopped having people like me in like 5th grade

29: I’m homo phobic

30: that’s a bold fucking statement considering the fact that that really depends on the specific situation

31: yeah sure whatever

32: I’m 1000% pro-choice. Nobody should be forced to give birth or carry out a pregnancy

33: oh my god what kind of fucking question

34: smoke weed all you want but I personally have a hatred for it because my brother smokes and it makes my stomach hurt and it gives my sister asthma attacks and also my brothers a dick. But I don’t care what other people do. Anyway free all people with non violent drug charges

35: uhhhh??? It’s love,,, it’s pretty tight I guess?? Tf,,,

36: hell yeah man.

37: turned away unless you’re washing your face I think? I don’t know,,, I kinda just move around and zone out in the shower?? I always stand where I can see the most of the room and I think in my current bathroom that’s facing the shower head

38: CLOSED OH MY GOD IM NOT GONNA SEE SATANS FACE AT MY DOOR

39: I don’t think that’s something I can just SAY. I love lots of people but I’m not in a relationship like that.

40: the fuck do you mean “still”? Most cartoons nowadays are teens and above? But yeah also kids cartoons like Loud House and stuff even though they’re a bit more annoying sometimes. I mean those are made for like 9 year olds though so I guess that makes sense.

41: tfw no s/o 😔

42: yeah she’s alright I fw her I guess

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my life with Jason Brookes • Eurogamer.net

In the autumn of 1995, I interviewed for a writing position on Edge magazine. I had no experience in publishing; I’d spent a year since leaving university writing manuals and design documents for the developer Big Red Software, but I was desperate to be a journalist. Although I hadn’t read Edge that much, everyone I worked with treated it like a holy text. It felt like a long shot. Then Jason Brookes turned up late for my interview, was friendly but distracted throughout, and at the end set me a writing task before disappearing completely. I assumed I had failed. Over a month later however, he called me and offered me a job. This was my first inkling that Jason had his own way of working.

Three days ago I got a call from Simon Cox who joined Edge just after me and later became deputy editor. Jason had been ill for three years – he died in the early hours of Monday morning. Between long difficult pauses, Simon and I swapped a few stories about our time on the magazine. I put the phone down and cried, and thought about Jason. That’s what I’ve been doing ever since.

Jason Brookes began his journalism career at the cult Super Nintendo magazine SuperPlay, under the tutorage of launch editor, Matt Bielby. He’d originally applied for a job on the Sega magazine, Mega, but editor Neil West soon realised Brookes was a complete Nintendo fanboy and pushed him Bielby’s way. “From the start, we were influenced by Japanese magazines – not just games mags, but women’s mags, car mags and anything else we could get our hands on – as well as Japanese comics and anime,” says Bielby. “What struck me about Jason was just how much he knew about and loved Japanese culture – and gaming in particular, and Nintendo especially amongst that. He knew more about all of it than the rest of us put together.

Photo credit: Hilary Nichols.

“Getting reliable info on Japanese games was a painful, time-consuming business in the pre-internet days, involving late-night phone calls to the other side of the world, local language students doing vaguely comprehensible translations for us from Japanese magazine articles, and all sorts of palaver. Jason was intrinsic to this.”

As there were so few SNES games officially released in the UK each month, the SuperPlay team was forced to scour the obscure grey import market – and this was Jason’s forte. “Even if the average SuperPlay reader was never going to buy Super Wagan Island or Zan II, the fact that it existed and we could tell people about it added to the unique feel of the magazine,” says Beilby. “Jason would find all sorts of obscure stuff that I, for one, couldn’t get my head around at all. It became his territory in a way, and his enthusiasm made us all consider the most oddball releases in a new light.”

In 1993, Future Publishing’s magazine launch specialist Steve Jarrett was looking for writing staff to help with an ambitious project. It was a new type of games magazine, eschewing the pally, hobbyist tone of most publications of the era in favour of a serious, refined, journalistic style, inspired by visual effects mag, Cinefex. That project was Edge. “He made a huge impact on the magazine,” says Jarrett. “He filled in a lot of the gaps in my knowledge – he brought with him his love of Japanese culture, games and game art – and at the time, that was where all the innovation was coming from. He opened Edge up. He was fortunate, too, because I wasn’t so keen on travel at the time so he did all the trips to the US and Japan!”

His first issue as editor was Edge 11, which featured a series of exclusive articles on the forthcoming PlayStation console, which at the time was still known by its codename, PS-X. Jason and Matt had been invited by Sony’s third-party development manager Phil Harrison to view the legendary T-Rex graphics demo being touted to developers, and Jason later secured interviews with staff within Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, as well as at Namco, Konami and Capcom for the big reveal feature. Over the course of ten packed pages, the magazine communicated the importance and potential impact of this vital newcomer to the games industry. As a knowledgeable fan of dance music, Jason also perfectly understood Sony’s determination to align PlayStation with the ascendant 1990s club culture, running several articles on the machine’s groundbreaking marketing and its relationship with hip brands such as Ministry of Sound and Designers Republic. He saw that both the audience and industry were maturing, and that popular culture would have to cede ground to video games. He just got it.

The Edge office in the mid-1990s was a cross between a university halls of residence, a night club and a game development studio – an atmosphere utterly presided over by Jason. He was an unapologetic perfectionist, determined that every page of the magazine exemplified the Edge vision of style and substance. He would spend hours choosing exactly the right photograph or screenshot for even the most minor preview, and my abiding memory of him is hunched over a lightbox, examining 35mm slides from some Japanese arcade trade show or obscure Shibuya-based development studio.

Everything would always come together at the last possible minute. The magazine flatplan – the page layout guide that showed writing and art staff what each issue would contain – was almost always virtually empty until the week before deadline. Then suddenly, Jason would announce that he’d secured an interview with Howard Lincoln or Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux or Bill Gates, or an exclusive look at some amazing new AM2 arcade game, then we’d be off. He’d trust us too. I remember the day Susie Hamilton from Derby-based developer Core Design (then best known for aging Mega Drive title Thunderhawk) brought their latest project into the office for us to see – something called Tomb Raider. Jason wasn’t interested so me and production editor Nick Harper had a play during our lunch hour. I think within five seconds we were over at Jason’s desk, saying “Um, we think you’d better come and have a look at this.” Straightaway he gave it two pages. Deadlines would often involve two or three all-night sessions, the whole team writing and laying out pages as Orbital blasted from the stereo. It was hard work, but it was fun. We’d smuggle beer in, and Edge’s art editor Terry Stokes, an inveterate prankster, would set up elaborate traps for us around the office.

What did I learn during this fraught, tense, hilarious nights? I learned everything about writing quickly, about getting the best from poorly translated interviews, about how every sentence needs to carry a fact or idea that takes the story forward. Jason hated waffle, he hated mediocre, colourless writing. He wanted us to communicate the joy of a Treasure shooter, the technological magic inherent in a lit, textured polygon, the underlying philosophy of an executive soundbite. He thought deeply about games and how they functioned. His favourite was R-Type and to hear him break it down was to hear a Nobel prize-winning scientist explaining DNA strands. As Jason’s brother Matthew recalls, “He loved the passionate attention to detail, the creativity, the huge sprites, the multi-layered parallax, the colours, and even the superlative collision detection. I’m not sure how long he must have spent playing and eventually completing that game.”

Jason didn’t teach us how to make a magazine, he just expected us to know. When I turned up to the Edge office on my first day of work, he told me to take screenshots of Sega Rally. I didn’t know what the hell that meant, I had no idea of the process. I just had to go over to the Sega Saturn, plug the leads in, figure out how to use the Apple Mac connected to our CRT gaming monitor and get on with it. Sometimes, he’d disappear to Japan or LA for a week and you wouldn’t know when he was coming back, you’d have to piece together his intentions from vague emails and editorial meeting notes. That’s just the way it worked, we all knew it. You figured stuff out. And then he’d return and flip through the latest issue of the mag and say “you did a really good job on this article” and my god, you’d glow with pride all day.

His perfectionism at Edge lasted until his very last act at the magazine – his final Editor’s Intro. “I just remember how long it took him to craft it,” says production editor at the time, Jane Bentley. “That sign off was the most agonising 300 words I’ve ever seen someone write and rewrite. I think I came out in hives having to stay up all night for final sub checks before the mag could get biked off to the printers. But Edge was a magic world back then. A real gang of super fans.”

After this, he moved to San Francisco writing for US magazines Xbox Nation and GMR as well Japanese publications LOGiN and Famitsu. More recently, he got back into pure design, helping indie studio 17-Bit Studios create its website.

A few months before he died, we all attended Simon Cox’s wedding in the Cotswolds. I sat next to Jason for most of the reception, and we reminisced about the olden days. At some point quite late on, after a few glasses of champagne, I said to him, “when you gave me the job on Edge, you changed my life. Everything I have done in writing after that is really down to you.” He just smiled at me in that charming and slightly airy way of his. I hope I have lived up to whatever it was you saw in me on that warm autumn afternoon long ago.

This is what I have learned from Jason Brookes: be good at what you do. Take care. Make every sentence you write, every image you capture, every idea you foster mean something. And if you are given the chance to thank someone for helping you, take that chance. In fact, do it now. Email them, text them, put down your phone or close your laptop and go find them. Tell them what they did. Because life can be cruel, and important people are sometimes taken away too soon. Jason, you were brilliant, difficult, talented, chaotic, spiritual and loving. You always ended your editor’s intros with a single phrase – the future is almost here. That’s how you lived – with one foot in next week, or next year, or the next decade even, waiting with a smile on your face for the rest of us to catch up.

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9 Summer Pieces You Can Still Wear In Autumn

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9 Summer Pieces You Can Still Wear In Autumn

New season, new wardrobe. Right? Well, not necessarily. With some of fashion’s most influential players conceding the industry’s pace is out of whack, the idea that what you wore last season is redundant now, isn’t just outdated, but irresponsible, too.

Plus, climate change is re-writing the rulebook anyway: September and October might’ve called for toasty overcoats 10 years ago, but in 2018 there are some days when it’s still almost T-shirt weather.

“Layering is the key,” explains Toby Lamb, design director of Savile Row tailor and British menswear brand Richard James. “There are four layers, essentially: the base layer, which consists of long- and short-sleeved T-shirts. The second, which includes shirts and light-gauge knitwear. The third is tailored jackets, denim jackets and blousons. And lastly, the top layer is the heaviest, so that’s pea coats, overcoats and double-breasted greatcoats.”

Winter will always mean shearling instead of shorts, it’s true, but that’s not to say your entire wardrobe needs to do a 180. To help you navigate the shifting seasons without spending a fortune on new pieces you don’t need, here are a selection of summer garments you can wear year-round. Don’t pack them away just yet.

T-Shirts

The idea that all fashion is seasonal is the biggest scam since the Nigerian banking sector got email. Just look at T-shirts: despite being intrinsically linked with the warmer months (and therefore often the first into storage when days get shorter), the barely-there material can still be worn when it gets frosty if you think of them as a base layer.

In addition to adding ballast to help fight off the cold, T-shirts give an otherwise staid outfit a burst of colour. “Use them as an accent,” suggests Lamb. “With a neutral crew neck sweatshirt, it’s nice to see a thin sliver of colour from a brightly coloured T-shirt poking out from the neck or hem.”

The key to making this look work is by using high contrast colour combinations, so a bright red tee under a rust-coloured coat, for example, or a yellow design to liven up a navy shirt.

Polo Shirt

Summer’s smart-casual staple looks every bit as sharp even after the season is over. Lightweight, breathable and not as airily thin as a T-shirt, a polo shirt (especially one cut from cotton piqué) is a top seed player in your transitional line-up.

The only thing that needs changing is the placement. Where in the summer a polo might sit front and centre, its role is more supporting once the mercury begins to drop.

While it’s still relatively warm, try a short-sleeved style under a lightweight jacket (such as a shacket, mac or duster), then switch to a longer-sleeved version under a blazer for a late-autumn look that proves you’ve got a handle on menswear’s trickier moves.

“Just opt for a jacket made in a fabric with texture,” says Lamb. “Polos don’t look as good with fabrics in a flat finish such worsteds or mohairs, which are more businesslike.”

Cropped Trousers

Just because mankles are given the cold shoulder at this time of year, it doesn’t mean your hemlines have to follow suit. “A pair of cropped trousers, or a regular pinrolled pair, is a perfectly acceptable style move to pull come the colder months – provided you wear them with socks,” says Chris Gove, creative director of British menswear brand Percival.

There’s something about that combination of autumn’s low light and gooseflesh that makes us feel positively bilious. So please, stop it – put on some socks. Any socks.

A few years ago only smart socks (the kind you wear with office slacks) would’ve cut it, but now sportswear rules, which means the tube socks you save for the gym are perfectly acceptable, too.

Denim Jacket

If street style has taught us anything, it’s that a denim jacket isn’t just an outer layer – it’s a bona-fide wardrobe workhorse. Sure, you can throw it on over a T-shirt or shirt, but a denim jacket is so much more: it’s the mid-layer that offers a textural contrast or the extra outer layer that dials up the heat.

If you’ve been wearing a trucker during summer, chances are it’s thin enough to slot between layers. Try wearing it over a hoodie or roll neck, or under a blazer or overcoat to nail that high-low contrast.

Just remember to keep colour coordination in mind: a classic blue jean jacket pops against black and camel outerwear, but a black one won’t.

Baseball Cap

“A baseball cap?” you say. “As in the thing I wear to keep the sun off my face? As in the thing I wear to a Yankees game?” Yes, yes and, well, no.

It is now possible to mix and match not only your summer and winter clothes (within reason), but also sportswear and workwear. However, this rule only applies if your hat meets a certain criteria.

“Baseball caps work best in the winter when they are more structured, simple and free of logos,” says Lamb. “The hat should be fairly low-key and preferably in the same colour as the rest of your outfit.” Let’s forget the political statements, as well, yeah?

Sunglasses

Public service announcement: there’s nothing seasonal about UV damage. Which means, despite the fact that sun-drenched days are as rare as hen’s teeth in winter, when the clouds part, the rays still burn.

Your eyes, like your skin, are vulnerable to damage year-round, with extended exposure known to cause macular degeneration and cataracts. So don’t stow away your shades with your shorts.

“I’d go for lenses with a lighter see-through tint, as opposed heavy blacked-out lenses,” says Fabio Ribeiro, manager of London opticians General Eyewear. “This creates a look which feels fresh in the winter, and looking through these tinted frames also lightens everything up and helps with SAD (seasonal affective disorder).”

What’s more, a quality pair of sunglasses won’t just protect your corneas, they’ll delay those crow’s feet too – forming a barrier between your skin and signs of premature ageing. Plus, and perhaps most importantly, they’re cool AF. Just don’t wear them indoors.

A Breton Top

Autumn’s onset might mean sailing city streets rather than clear blue seas, but that shouldn’t mean putting Breton shirts on the plank.

Timeless and versatile, the Breton top’s simplicity makes it virtually seasonless, so while, sure, it looks great sipping a negroni on a beach, it’s just at home with a pint of beer in the depths of winter.

Bonus: it works with everything else in your wardrobe. “Go low-key with a Breton top, chinos or cords and clean trainers, or take a smarter tack by teaming with a wool blazer, trousers and smart shoes,” says Gove.

White Jeans

Along with the wardrobe classics, putting paid to the sartorial swindle that is seasons also makes investing in trending pieces all the more justifiable. Getting wear out of a pair of white jeans beyond the high-summer months, for example, sees their cost-per-wear ratio rocket.

They lend a pleasing colour contrast to the traditional winter palette of black, navy, olive, grey and brown, so deploy them as you would indigo denim, with everything from leather jackets to pea coats and overcoats.

Trying to keep them pristine, however, is like pushing rope up a hill, says Nicolas Payne-Baader, who has styled shoots for the likes of Jocks & Nerds. Instead, Baader recommends letting them get as dirty and battered as you like, giving them a “rugged off-hand appeal”.

Loafers

Perhaps it’s the loafer’s association with bare ankles that’s seen it branded a fair-weather footwear option, but it’s autumn that the shoe is really made for.

Just look at the way it’s built: lightweight, yet sturdy – the ultimate between-season shoe, offering warmth (not to mention the ability to withstand showers), without the heft of a stacked sole Derby or winter boot.

Material is the deciding factor in determining just how autumn-appropriate your loafers are; a high-summer pair made from suede should sit this one out, but leather? They’ll do nicely.

Socks are the difference between a look that’s unexpected, and one that’s unacceptable. Tempted as you might be to stay true to the Pitti Uomo aesthetic, swerve it once summer’s gone.