work ≠ personal satisfaction
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- RustyStew0
I struggle with the whole thing a bit. @jtb26 I have been passionate about my work, but the work environment has slowly been suppressing my passion. In school, we learned a pretty strict creative/design process. It produced a pretty high percentage of good quality work amongst the students. I was made lead of a logo project here and decided I would bring that process to the table and apply it in a work setting, because the current internal process is very lose, but hasn't historically generated great results. We got through it, with a little headbutting, but I there was some cool work that came out of it.
Here is the kicker that got me doubting things. A couple weeks later my boss gives me another logo project along with these instructions. "I don't want to do a full exploration on this. Just something he can use" Well, that completely demoralized me.
If you are simply satisfying requests even if it is against your experience or expertise, whether it is is for a client or a boss, is that really design anymore?
- translation: your art school process took forever.
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- translation: your art school process took forever.