A while back I was invited to take part in a design competition at springleap.com. At the time I simply had way too much on my plate but still thought the idea was great.

In turns out that they run a competition every month to get the best designs from the top designers on their T-shirts. They give away some great prizes including cash, vouchers, goodies and a whack of exposure!

I still don’t have too much time on my hands, but today I managed to put together 3 designs. They are relatively simple but effective I think. My designs will be running in the competition from 14 – 28 January 2009.

The titles of the designs are:

• I work out!
• For Sale
• Have you seen this milk carton?

Please be a sport and vote for them.

I’ll take that one, no wait that one, hold on…

What is it about the word ‘choice’ that makes my heart smile? Perhaps it from the pleasant connotations to the word that have been deeply rooted in fertile soil of my mind.

Choice is great! Especially when choosing which take-outs to get over the weekend. “Will it be pizza? How about burgers? Ooh no what about that new place…?” What about choosing clothes, “yip that shirt looks great” or “these new trainers are awesome!” Even better yet, choosing a car. This is something we men seem to relish. It amazes me how we can stand for hours checking out all the bells and whistles the new models have to offer and reading the performance specifications until we know them all by heart.

A big choice is choosing the right home. Where will you feel comfortable? Are you close to the places you frequent often? Is it your style? Very similarly we make choices like these in business. Where to setup office, which marketing approach to take, who to target, where to get the funding and the list goes on.

Take a minute to think of how you would feel if there were no choices…
… You are forced to eat some devilish looking slop for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You were forced to where the most unimaginative, putrid, uncomfortable clothing everyday. You drove the same car that everybody else drove and no, it’s not a luxury sedan or a new SUV. You lived in a commune that spanned as far as your eye could see, homes clustered together like processed goods along a conveyor. The world is grey, there is no colour, life is dull.

OK before I get way to depressed pondering on the previous paragraph, I am going to celebrate the fact that I do have choices and many of them to last a lifetime.

What choices are you going to make today? Will they be your own, or will they be pressured by somebody else?

Choosing is a form of creativity!
Just as an artist chooses which colours to stroke across a blank canvas, so too are the choices that colour our lives.

Be creative, think out of the box. Hey there doesn’t even have to be a box. But most importantly be the best you that you can be!

Graham :^)