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Here goes my first attempt. My fingers begrudgingly begin to type this blog entry despite my knowledge that it is a mandatory effort; Not to mention that I must complete it to receive marks for it. As well as to actually find the will to write it in the dullness of a Monday afternoon in Nanaimo.

Nanaimo greatly lacks excitement and anything stimulating; its dull encampment of mundane flatness seems to be completely void of any source of inspiration. I never thought I would come by much good design here in Nanaimo. Of course, I wasn't really opening my eyes to design, I was sitting hunched over a computer screen playing computer games, and the only thing I was gaining from it was the ability to say I need a life.

Although I still waste more time than I actually spend it doing things I am supposed to, I will just get to the facts and shut up about myself. Nanaimo does produce some good quality work, even if you have to go digging for one you like. This Nanaimo Arts Council poster was eye-catching to me for some reason, which I found, being lazy, on Google Image Search because I live quite far away from anything interesting. The imagery is simple; the radiating orange-yellow and yellow jagged bars create liveliness and draw your eye to the ink splat from the graphic pen. Pointing upward, the pen draws your eye, to the logo for the Nanaimo Short Fiction Contest; the shapes also radiate outward to move you through the poster which really makes this design appealing.


One thing that did bug me about this poster is the typography. At the top the type is legible; however, at the bottom you can hardly read it. It looks so small that one must use a bloody magnifying glass to see it. Despite its flaws, I still like it. It seems pop-art themed and modern. Simplistic, but it gets down to the point. I guess I will end that here for now before I projectile text-vomit across this webpage. Speaking of imagery...