Mario Montoya Jr's Banter

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mmsupermario — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:48:55 -0400

mrmcqueen: New EF International Language Center Videos. If you...

mmsupermario — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:27:54 -0400

New EF International Language Center Videos. If you saw the first few, you’ll notice that they’ve really gone above and beyond with this new set. The new locations include Sydney, Australia; Vancouver, Canada; and Los Angeles, California. Amazing Typography.

check the videos out here.

c86: Jim Flora - Road Rage, 1958

mmsupermario — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:16:20 -0400

c86:

Jim Flora - Road Rage, 1958

Photo

mmsupermario — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:14:22 -0400

This was my original resume. But everyone told me I’d...

mmsupermario — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:46:00 -0400

This was my original resume.

But everyone told me I’d never get hired with a resume like this.

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mmsupermario — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:42:05 -0400

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c86: Professor Honeydew & Beaker via Andrew Kolb

mmsupermario — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:50:01 -0400

c86:

Professor Honeydew & Beaker

via Andrew Kolb

I have a thing for those old Sears catalogs. Love the rigidity...

mmsupermario — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:18:00 -0400

My Resume.

The design my resume is based on.

I have a thing for those old Sears catalogs.

Love the rigidity of the layout.

When I went to build my resume, I took inspiration from these old catalogs and brought the simply columned layout to modern times.

Both images at the top are resumes, though one is a bit less professional. The unprofessional one is how I would love to be able to write freely and openly like. I doubt my humor I used in the original profile would have gone over well with potential employers.

Hopefully next month I can finally get those business cards I’ve been neglecting to get made. Right now they’ll be on simple thick stock paper, but one day I hope to get them letter pressed on paper from French Paper. I’m sure they would look amazing produced that way.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance In Lower Mathematics Just take a...

mmsupermario — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:01:00 -0400

The Dot and the Line: A Romance In Lower Mathematics

Just take a screenshot and it would look like a well designed piece.

I love this video for being able to tell a short story just using simple geometric shapes.

Goes to show that just enough is more.

c86: Taken from Le Pétrole (aka Keith and Sally Look for Oil)...

mmsupermario — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:34:15 -0400

c86:

Taken from Le Pétrole (aka Keith and Sally Look for Oil) by Alain Gree, 1965

via Mondorama 2000

"In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word..."

mmsupermario — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:13:13 -0400

“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there’s only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging for a perfume or for chocolate in order to make things fashionable, obsolete and therefore bad for society because we don’t really need it. While ontwerpe means, and the Anglo-saxon word, but its stronger, means engineering. That means you as a person try to invent a new thing—which is intelligent, which is clever, and which will have a long-life. And that’s called stylistic durability. It means you can use it for a long time.”

- Gert Dumbar (via banquethall)

The Temper Trap — Sweet Disposition (RAC Remix) It’s been...

mmsupermario — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:29:01 -0400

The Temper Trap — Sweet Disposition (RAC Remix)

It’s been a slow week. No interviews, no new design jobs coming in, and I’m low on cigarettes.

I’m off to spend the rest of the day sending out about 20 resumes and hoping someone will like me.

A Fresh Coat Of Paint:

mmsupermario — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:25:00 -0400

Finally got this blog up and running after the last one had a meltdown. A year of posts gone after a hard drive failure AND a site deletion. I have the greatest luck.

So I just started anew on Tumblr, I like the interface more and I can quickly post things to it when I’m on the go. Plus I can buy a theme I’ve been eyeing for it.

Don’t get me wrong, I can code the shit out of a theme, I would. I just don’t want to. It’s tedious work and right now I want to focus all my time on finding a job.

Freelance is fun and a great way to start out, but once you reach a certain point, living on few freelance gigs is not enough. Money is tighter than ever.

But it’s not just the money thats making me look for a fulltime job, it’s the opportunity to work with other designer and people. Freelance means working alone and having a few moments to bounce ideas off people, but in a fulltime studio type job, I’d be able to throw ideas around, collaborate, actually have some social interaction instead of yelling at my Macbook when it freezes.

I just want an opportunity to show what I can, to prove that I know my stuff and maybe make a few people laugh with my presence. Not that I’m funny. I’m just terribly awkward.

I think I’ll end the day with a song.

Picked this baby up at Amoeba’s for some light reading....

mmsupermario — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:07:58 -0400

Picked this baby up at Amoeba’s for some light reading. Seemed a few of the employees there were envious of my find.