the world on corrugated

I know. I know. It's been a few days since my last post, but this has been an incredible week. I have been working on three design projects at the same time. Now I normally juggle projects. I have this 4 x 8 foot whiteboard in my office and each project I am involved in has a 1 x 3 inch magnetic tile on the board. There are usually 100+ projects on the board and there are only two of us to take care of getting these projects designed, printed and delivered. As a project progresses toward completion, the tile gets moved across the board. During a typical week 20-30 new jobs come in and 20-30 jobs are completed. In addition to all the little projects the three aforementioned huge projects have consumed a long time this week. One project was to create display panel graphics for a trade show in Beijing which happens next week. Another project was to create a series of 8 pocket folders and 8 matching PowerPoint templates. The biggest challenge with that one was finding a color pallet that worked for all 8 designs [one color as an anchor and a different complementary color for each of the folders]. The final project has been the most time-consuming and also the most fun. The challenge was to create a graphic which represents corrugated board, paper and global distribution. After finding a source of single-sided fluted board [the brown corrugated sheet used as the base for the image above] I decided to create a globe from waded up paper. I purchased an 8-inch ball to use as the foundation, googled types of maps, found a huge interrupted homolosine map to use as a guide, printed out blue sheets for the water and landmasses using the homolosine map image, covered the ball with adhesive and slowly adhered the crinkled paper to the ball. I presented the graphic for consideration this afternoon. Whew! What a week. I'm off tomorrow. I need the break!
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Song 455: Nights In White Satin
Artist: Moody Blues
Album: This is the Moody Blues
Year: 1974
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Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters Ive written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty Id always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I cant say anymore.

cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.

Gazing at people,
Some hand in hand,
Just what Im going thru
They can understand.

Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end,

And I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters Ive written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty Id always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I cant say anymore.

cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.