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- paraselene0
moth you of all people should be headed over there with a pickaxe and some molotov cocktails how dare you defend these slobs.
- mr_snuggles0
snobbery, please, I won't even lower myself to address that....
- moth0
why me?
If people want to buy crap, then someone is going to be willing to sell it. Fair game I say.I don't plastic, dancing, singing Santa's - but there's a niche in it.
I sometimes wonder what it's like to be on the receiving end of a design pitch by a patronising designer. I'd probably show them the door.
- chossy0
my eyes oh god my eyes :'(
I used to enjoy seeing things now after looking at your site I no longer have vision and my brains ache.
- moth0
do "EuroCargo" or "Railway Approvals Ltd" really need to have what anyone here could offer?
- Kuz0
moth is right.
they seem ideal for what Beachboy is looking for. As boring and corporate as that may be for some of y'all design snobs.
- mr_snuggles0
...and this is why Newstoday is so utterly irrelevant.
frankiefido
(Dec 12 06, 04:10)
- moth0
so then snuggles. Given the task of producing a Corporate ID for the plumber next door, who wants to pay silly amounts of cash for something in "Times" with some "arrows", are you going to turn the job down, spend countless hours producing cool concepts and talking down to him about the go-faster-stripe on his van, or quickly knock out something quite bland and possibly awful and take the cash?
- mr_snuggles0
I would never talk down to any client... that's just unprofessional and shows a lack of common courtesy...
All I'm complaining about with this company in question is their lack of the basic design knowledge, not because they're not 'cool'. You can pick apart websites that don't adhere to what you would consider basic programming, that's pretty much all I'm doing.
Fuck man, I don't know what you think I'm about...
- mr_snuggles0
and I've been using Times a lot lately, as a matter of fact, just last night for a flyer...
- Beeachboy0
they seem ideal for what Beachboy is looking for. As boring and corporate as that may be for some of y'all design snobs.
Kuz
(Dec 14 06, 05:47)may i just say that it is my Directors that are choosing and buying - and not me!
I was hoping for the sort of responses i have so that when our sh*t new logo appears i can point and laugh in confidence :)
as you were.....
- Nairn0
Moth's moaning because he.. well, because he's moth. The point is, they're hoisting themselves by their own petard - if they sat there quietly pumping out corporate dross without the excess of fanfare or pithy marketing speak, no one here wouold say aught (except, perhaps, beeeeachboy).
"If you’re looking to make your company’s offer more memorable, relevant and compelling, then you should be talking with us. "
No. Really, not.
- mr_snuggles0
where is the savoir?
- Nairn0
Oops, I'm not deliberately trying to troll you, moth - you know I loves ya.
Um, the reason they use graphics as buttons is because they use dreamweaver templates, which means they probably don't want to screw with js too much, which means they can't do a fancy colour-style switcher, which means they have to rely on shitty little graphics like this..
I want to put that 0 out of its misery.
- paraselene0
gone to the county faire?
- Baskerville0
what's the point of being comfortable doing a bad job for someone just becuase they can't immediately spot the lack of quality.
the work ethic of a cowboy builder.
Why even bother doing the job if it doesn't matter to you? Design is not for people that don't care (or at least shouldn't be), if you don't care just go and work in phones 4 U or something.
- mr_snuggles0
there it is..
- Jaline0
para, here's some nice green:
http://green.colorize.net/