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What is insanity really?As artists, many onlookers often refer to our meticulous ways as practical craziness or borderline insanity. In many cases it might be true . . .
these very comments should be used as encouragement not discouragement.
tampering with insanity means to exercise genius. Embrace your inner asylum
thanks for your time.
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we're all there lol. thank you.
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this is great i love text art all of the element here just work perfectly the BG makes the text really stand out faved keep up the good work
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thanks for the comment. I appreciate your support.
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np 
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that's a very humbling compliment. thank you.
I'll tell you a secret though, I still have a long way to go myself.
just make sure whatever you do is better then the last thing you've already done.
that way you have no choice but to grow.
keep creating.
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thank you very much for the advice 
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So SO true. You just used a designers way to display it. The use of your grids(however concious or unconcious) is fantastic and the contrasting colours are vibrant enough but not too over the top. I love the orange especially but I biased when it comes to that colour. Nicely done dude. Definately watching you.
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such a humbling statement.
I appreciate your support.
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that is really cool, amazing composition and the colors clash really well
xxx
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thanks, I'm glad you like.
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I'm glad you like . . . thanks for the favorite.
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I love this, I can't believe this is the first time I've seen your work it's awesome.
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thanks . . . I appreciate it.
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as usual this is a nice work, I have seen it before, but I forgot to fav it!!!!
Great composition!!
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thanks my friend. that means a lot coming from you.
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cheers!!! U so wellcome!!
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youre taking your stuff to a next level bro. i admire you a lot, and i cant help but repeat that youve come a loooong way!
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I really appreciate that. your comments mean the world to me. once we actually put our minds together we can go even further.
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Nice work as usual. ^^ The colors work really well. I love how you paid a lot of attention to the details with the sizing of the letters Really interesting packaging - in a good way. The white lines seem a bit.. extraneous, though. Other than that, this is beautiful! And it's true about the craziness.
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thanks for the comments. I appreciate the feed back. originally I used those rules to keep everything sense I used a grid . . . I guess after staring at it for a while I kinda like them. I'm glad you like the piece though. This all spawned from having breakfast with friends
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Ohh, well that makes sense. Grids are helpful, and they grow on me too.
I love inspirations like those. They're random and you don't have to look for them. Especially when you actually have to think of something, and you can't.
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yeah man its true. inspiration is everywhere.
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All you gotta do is see.
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it's really a blessing. I kind of feel like I've been given a new set of eyes. after design the world is much more interesting to look at.
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Seriously. I find myself noticing design in places I never would've seen them before. A bit off topic, but I saw a poster with type design for KFC and then I was like, "...That looks bad." Your work is so much better than that. That type design made me cringe. But yeah, it's amazing how much design there is, even in something as simple as a pencil. Once you notice those things, you really can appreciate design more.
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I definitely agree. it feels like I use to view the world in black in white . . . now the world is such wonderful color palette! I wouldn't have it any other way. being the position that we're in as designers, you have a greater appreciation for life in general. I wouldn't dare have it any other way.
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That's a really good metaphor to use - the world as a color palette. (: Same here - I simply wouldn't have it any other way.
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The message is fantastic, however, I'm not so sure about this composition.
I feel that the white lines take away from this piece. To me, the way this is set up, the lines guide my eye off of the piece or into blank space, especially in that upper left hand corner.
I feel the words could have been used to achieve the effect of reaching out from the text and it would have made this much for powerful. For instance, the words "insane" and "changed" could be great examples to maybe replace the lines with, especially for achieving some more hierarchy in the piece as well. The two lines within the text though are great and hardly even noticable at 1st.
1 other kind of picky comment is maybe have the word "asylum" bleed to end of the page such as the word "The" does at the top. Sorry, I've had that literally beaten into me on my work haha.
The colors are crazy and really achieve that "crazy" kind of feeling to me. I am not sure if you wanted such criticism towrds to piece, but that is just how I am haha. I can't change that. The message, as I said, is fantastic...fantastically brilliant and truly has a meaning, and the piece itself, is very note worthy to me, and just a few simple things could make this an incredible work of text art.
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thanks for such a detailed comment. the rules were used to kind of keep everything in tact. and after I was done I kind of liked them so I left them there.
also the color were a representation of insanity as well. I'm glad many of you guys noticed.
I welcome you comments. Its important and only makes me a stronger designer.
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I do definitely agree that the lines complete the piece, without them, it would be less involving.
I'm glad that you are able to take contructive criticism haha, unlike many artists who may have not been so friendly after that statement. Criticism does follow the statement "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger" in that criticism will never hurt or ruin a design in any way, but only helps it to achieve its maximum effectiveness and potential.
Hmmm...I do feel a design about that statement may be in order haha.
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my skin is pretty thick. I think it needs to be as an artist. the best comments you can get are the negative ones. those live in the memory longer than the nice ones. either way, to me its a reward . . . because I've managed to bring out an emotion from my audience.
as a designer / artist . . . asking for anything more is just plain greedy. thanks again buddy
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hey no problem man. keep up the great designs.
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I'm sure as hell gonna try . . . I don't want to disappoint anyone ! lol
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You haven't dissapointed me with any of your work so far if that counts for anything haha!
And if someone doesn't like a piece you do, there will always be a critic, no matter what. You just can't please everyone. I wish that were possible because if we could please everyone as designers, God would we be rollin' in the dough haha! And then there would just be an arms race...except with design haha. O I have too much free time to think about these random things here at home.
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its all good. I'm a bit of a rambler myself . . . at least I know what you're thinking
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thank you so very much for you support.
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Nice work, crazy colours I think actually... I'm still planning on trying something like this at some point... I'll get there one day, ha.
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