"The color should be more elegant"
"The color should be more elegant"
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I recently completed a multi-color stationery system. The design was of course approved by my client prior to printing. Then the stationery arrived, and people at the company supposedly started complaining. I was told that an undisclosed number of employees thought the “mismatched” color palette looked unprofessional, and that next time we needed to consider reprinting in a single color combo. I was told furthermore that if only one or two people complained, nothing would’ve been mentioned; but in this case they felt “compelled” to let me know. But then they didn’t say why.
So in other words, I’ve been asked to modify a corporate color palette because a handful of people have never seen multi-color stationery before.
- <Too much to readvitamins
- Stopped reading two posts agod_rek
- But seriously... Design By Committee.d_rek
- or rather...a key decision maker was left out and is now voicing their opiniond_rek
- somebody didn't get laid recently, and you have to deal with the effects of that....vaxorcist
- what vaxorcist saidd_rek
- Update: the source of critique has been identified as one person, and though she'd like to be, she is not a stakeholder.gramme
- Apparently her husband is an in-house creative director for a competitor. She showed him the multi-color system, and he gave her the thumbs down.gramme
- gave her the thumbs down.gramme
- And she then took her critique + seasoned husband critique to the CEO.gramme
- She's probably the bosses mistressali
- Oh man... I'm tempted to say some horribly vile things about this woman. Tell me to have at it and I'll let loose a tirade.Gucci
- The thing that kills me is that this woman's husband is a designer. She should know better.gramme