Monday, 25 March 2013

Biodiversity!

So, I'm doing a poster presentation on biodiversity and my topic is the red wolf, Canis rufus.

I wanted to use a graphic I found online:


Unfortunately the resolution is too poor to scale it up to the A2 size of the poster.  I spoke to Carlos, who has a friend, Juan, who's a graphic designer.  They have a running joke that Carlos is useless at any kind of graphic design.  So Carlos sent me this email, cc'ed to Juan:

Hi,
Got your wolf map that you want to include on your college poster presentation. You are right, it wont look any good at A2 size in that resolution. Have no fear though, I've whipped up a near perfect replica that is bigger and will add an certain air of professionalism to your work
Love
Carlos. x

pps:copied Juan in as he has constantly said that my abilities with MS Paint are 'staggering', and he might wish to frame it


I replied:

Thank you darling, that's a really good try.  Unfortunately you left out some of the bits that were quite important.  It needs to show the current and historical range and also have a scale bar.  And it needs to show the states and not the whole of the USA.  

I have created a lovely example myself, I think this will probably do unless you want to try and improve on it?  I haven't got MS Paint on my Mac so I used a free online editor.  As you can see I think I could've been a graphic designer, you will probably remember from my masterpieces in DrawSomething.

Love,
Alicey


Then Juan replied:

¬_¬

xx



This has made me chuckle a lot this weekend!

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