darragh 𝕏

Digital Graphic Designer based in Sydney 🇦🇺

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

@Mixmag 🙌

[Noel Anderson @NoelAnderson_]

Class new addition to Ballsbridge. #Carved

[Focal Media Ltd @FocalMediaLtd]

Check out our recent install of our new 8x4m LED Video Wall in Petmania Athlone.

Get in touch for more info. [email protected]

#Signage # Digital # LED #IrishBusiness

[Seso @SesoHQ]

For my graphic designers,

I wanted to share more pattern swatches to help fill space in your backgrounds!

Free of course,
https://t.co/QwzIxHAQhb

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

Dear Adobe Illustrator,

Create a shortcut for offset path, pls.

Thank you.

[' @TheShowtimeReds]

JUST RETWEET.

[Neil Prendeville @NeilRedFM]

Enniskillen pub Charlie's has released a Christmas advert that puts John Lewis in the hapenny place.

[Fraser Davidson @FrazDav]

Some @NRL and @SuperLeague team concept art as part of an October project to sharpen up on some sports branding. First up the @sydneyroosters. Some fairly obvious local iconography! More of these every day till I run out of first grade #rugbyleague teams.

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

Shite take. Unbelievable show.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

David Fincher says MINDHUNTER Season 3 will never happen.

“It's a very expensive show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we didn't attract enough of an audience to justify such an investment.”

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

https://t.co/VM8fghbMnf

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

What song has you feeling like this?

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

@Travisuals These are 😘👌. You’ll get there one day.

[Nick Greenawalt @motionbynick]

i work with a lot of designers, who create amazing scenes.

I want to animate them in after effects in 3D, however once you apply distance, the layers change size.

So i made this script which you can use to create 3D space yet keep the intended scale correct

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

Noway that Rihanna has a load of young ones running around in Puma Kings after this.

[Rihanna @rihanna]

AVANTI. sept 15. #FENTYxPUMA

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

#COYGIG

[Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 @IrelandFootball]

Let’s GO ☘️

⚽️ | Canada v Republic of Ireland
📍 | Perth Rectangular Stadium
⏰ | 8:00pm / 1:00pm (Irish Time)
📺 | RTÉ2

#COYGIG | #FIFAWWC

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

I believe Ron Ron Pearlman is not acting. Which is what the best actors do.

#WGA #SAG

[Irish Type @irishtypography]

An Cáman Inn, Drawbridge Street, Cork, Ireland.

[Ciarán - Crazy House Prices @crazyhouseprice]

Surely lower paid workers should be the ones to get the car allowances? And those earning a quarter of a million a year can pay for their own petrol/diesel/electricity, considering they're rich.

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

@vanschneider @jonasleupe Jane Austin Font. Beautiful.

[darragh 𝕏 @darraghpotts]

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a worse cover of a song.

[Fidel Amos ⟁ @FidelEverywhere]

@EverythingOOC For those of you who don’t get it because you haven’t heard the cover.

https://t.co/pyPrbHXKek

PS. It’s terrible, but at least now you’ll get this post.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1971, Phil Knight was teaching accounting at Portland State University.

One day, he overheard a graphic design student say that she couldn’t afford to take a painting class.

Knight paid her $35 to design a logo for his start-up shoe company.

When he saw the design, he said,

“I don't know if I like it, but maybe it will grow on me.”

Knight didn’t have time to fuss over the logo. "We had a deadline," he explains. He had signed a contract with a factory to produce 3,000 pairs of Nike's first shoe. "Production was starting on the shoe that Friday."

Before then, they needed a logo.

“You don’t like it?” Knight’s chief operating officer asked of the student’s design.

“I don’t love it,” Knight said, “but we’re out of time. It’ll have to do.”

Takeaway 1:

It's said that if not for constraints and deadlines, nothing would get made.

George Lucas, for instance, worked on drafts of the first Star Wars for years. "I never arrived at a degree of satisfaction where I thought the screenplay was perfect," he said.

But then he struck a deal with a movie executive from United Artists—"At that point, it became an obligation," Lucas said.

"If I hadn't been forced to shoot the film, I would doubtless still be rewriting it now."

Takeaway 2:

At Nike's IPO in 1980, Phil Knight gave the student who designed the Swoosh 500 shares.

She never sold.

Since the IPO, there have been 7 stock splits. So those 500 shares have become 64,000 shares. At the time of this writing, Nike is at $110/share.

$110/share x 64,000 shares = $7,040,000.

It makes me think of something Robert Greene once told me:

“Above all else, focus on acquiring knowledge and skills. Knowledge and skills are like gold—a currency you will transform into something more valuable than you can imagine."

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