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Elvis Christ

Dan Redding — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:48:41 +0000

Found this floating around the Intercheese. Artist(s) unknown.

New Year’s Resolutions: The Year 2020

Dan Redding — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:18:53 +0000

Recapitulate the whiz-bang knob on my holodeck

Buy a new face for my iSexbot

Dodge draft for military service in Machine Wars

Make pilgrimage to recently unveiled Google product: Google Fountain of Youth

Put Segway on Ebay

Watch Cloned Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve

Buy new vinyl-only album releases by Pixies, Alice in Chains, Blur, Rolling Stones

Go see James Cameron’s technologically innovative new film, ‘Biomorphosphere.’ Viewing the film requires a single binocular worn on your third eye

Take moon boots to robocobbler

Transcend biology

Survive daily onslaught of tsunamis, hurricanes, hordes of zombie Nazis

Pimp my DeLorean

Client Testimonial

Dan Redding — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:52:35 +0000

“Dan Redding didn’t just redesign Five Chapters, he helped brand it and reinvent it. He’s a great partner because he works hard to understand the ideas and passions behind a project, then thinks and researches deeply to figure out how he can execute them. He simply does great work – and took Five Chapters a long, long way in a short period of time.” -David Daley, editor of Five Chapters online literary magazine

The above quote is a client testimonial about my work from David Daley, who hired me to design his logo and redesign his site early this year (visit www.fivechapters.com). Reading those words for the first time really made my day.

Many design portfolio sites feature a client testimonial or two, and I am proud to do so now, but it never used to be something that I considered to be my style. However, when I recently read one designer’s claim that the use of a testimonial on his site “literally doubled” the amount of potential clients who contacted him about work through his site, I gave it a second thought. I reached out to David because he was a great client and our work together resulted in what I still consider to be one of my most successful jobs of the year. I was worried that I might be imposing, but to my surprise, Dave responded to my inquiry within minutes, and wrote a testimonial that was way more than I could have asked for. Those three sentences are what every designer hopes to hear from a client. The testimonial is now proudly displayed on the (newly redesigned) ‘Info’ page at www.magneticstate.com.

Thanks, Dave!

Eyestruck.

Dan Redding — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:31:48 +0000

While browsing the shelves of Photoplay today, my eyes were awestruck by the cover for the Criterion edition of Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco. The gorgeous illustration is by Pierre Le-Tan. I’m not sure how he pulls off that insane cross-hatching look – is it the texture of the paper or is it all done by hand? Whatever his secret weapon is, the two women in their muted colors appear almost as thought they are behind a veil and the illustration looks like it might dissolve into thin air. Scroll down to view the Criterion cover – my only complaint there is the use of the gaudy font Bernhard Modern.

Illustration by Pierre Le-Tan

The Last Days of Disco

Welcome!

Dan Redding — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:51:20 +0000

Welcome to the Magnetic State Blog Department! This blog is a component of the sparkling new portfolio site, which also officially launched today. Magnetic State continues to evolve and expand; later this year I will launch Magnetic State brand tequila-infused breakfast cereal (it’s called ‘Good Morning’) and also our line of combination hoverboard/time machines (still in research phase).

2009 has been an exciting year here at the studio. I recently designed a t-shirt for my friends in Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers. This blog article was featured on the New York Times’ City Room Blog. I’ve been having fun designing WordPress-based content management systems for web design clients and I also recently designed a portfolio site for a very talented artist.

This blog and www.magneticstate.com are built and designed by myself. This blog is proudly powered by WordPress. The former incarnation of this blog is now dormant, but I have migrated some of the most popular content to this site.

So welcome to the Blog Dept. and please remember to take a look at the portfolio. As always, if you’re interested in hiring me for graphic design, web design, or illustration work, or if you just want to say hello, you can send me an email. And thanks very much for visiting!

Sincerely,

Dan Redding