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- digdre0
- +1kgvs72
- +2jamble
- and just how can they justify running a business like this? They must hemorrhage money...Not_Just_Another
- jesus sounds good!jimzyk
- now kern it.digdre
- +1,000,000section_014
- niceMeeklo
- seriously tho, this motivates people in a good way. Why can't more agencies be like this?OSFA
- IF this is true of course...OSFA
- ukit0
I thought this was gonna be an app that takes your work and makes it look like David Carson.
- Hahahahaha same here!uncle_helv
- And what a joy it would have been to NOT install it.MrT
- Orbit0
I can't help wondering if there are more interesting threads that could posted up. The world is full of bad kerning. If this was a forum for owners of thoroughbred race horses there wouldn't be much point in posting pictures of shirehorses to criticise the thickness of their legs.
Jus sayin'
- threadpost0
holy bajesus dude. what is your beef? That New Baby card looks exactly the same as every other card in the grocery store isle.
I really doubt new parents are expecting art in an envelope. It's just a stupid card meant for the trash, except for the $25 gift certificate to Target inside. Who cares? Bad kerning and tracking exist everywhere, but you can read it right? I don't even think this card is as egregious as you come off about.- You are a layman. You don't understand just how important this issue is.Orbit
- don't mess with the orbitdigdre
- If the parents think this is OK the child will grow up to think it is okay. I do not need to say any more.Orbit
- LOLdigdre
- A layman? hmm. I not quite. doing quite well thank you. just relax its a $1.50 card.threadpost
- Ok one of us is better at this than the other. I'm going to bow to your superior parody skills & back away slowly.Orbit
- I = I'm not...just so...you know...I don't sound totally drunk.threadpost
- Okay then. Great.Orbit
- tis.threadpost
- this is funjimzyk
- maybe you should get a room, boysjimzyk
- digdre0
^
thats why people should hire a designer, and not let grandma design something
- threadpost0
^ ok then designer dude, let's see your attempt at what this card should look like.
- Erm... you're frightening me now. Please leave me alone.
= )Orbit
- Erm... you're frightening me now. Please leave me alone.
- airey0
i think that if the people who receive this card don't throw it back at the gift-giver immediately, then their acclaimed 'new baby' should be slaughtered in front of them to the gods of leading.
- play him out keyboard cat!threadpost
- i like the gods of leading bitjimbojones
- Orbit0
- squeezed type or apostrophe (the fake apostrophe)? either way, I feel you're pain
(see what I did there?)jimbojones - you are pain... that works too.Amicus
- WRONG ON 3 COUNTS.MrT
- squeezed type or apostrophe (the fake apostrophe)? either way, I feel you're pain
- Orbit0
At this point I'm not sure if my intention was to stop a fight, or to start one.
- johnnnnyh0
re carsonified, agree the type is poor on quite a few of the headers, but it's a hell of lot better than their previous site which was really poor on many levels. So I think we should acknowledged that a designer has put some work in and made some significant improvements. Nevertheless, I can see that if I'd created those headers I may have thought again and spent and bit more time getting it better (visually).
Surely there is a correlation in the "New Baby" type between getting the job out of the door and getting the job done well before it goes out the door. I think there are many things produced which are probably done last minute, or with little or no budget and therefore someone just slaps some text down and thinks they'll get away with it. Which they do, but then someone is always going to come along later and say "How come this left the designers screen and got printed/published" "Why didn't they re-do that bit or this bit" but sometimes you just don't get the hours to finish a job to the satisfaction of everyone.
But critique of that work is still OK, in my opinion if we accept that there may have been reason for the poor quality of the work other than they just didn't notice it.
Perhaps it comes down to your personal pride - I'd rather spend a couple of extra minutes/hours getting it right in my own time if I have to rather than let something shit out of the door.
- johnnnnyh0
" I am still not sure what the hell they do? " - actually does that mean for you the design doesn't work. Shouldn't it be obvious or do you just not care? For me I think I've a better sense of what they do from this new design, but then I've been aware of them as a company for sometime so I maybe biased on this.
- dajaniel0
I'm actually pretty relieved that the new carsonified site is quite nice. A bit fussy, but way better than their old site and the millions of other sites that were inspired by it.
Carsonified have a worryingly firm grip and huge influence on the web design community, so at least they're "leading the way" (to some extent).
- yes, I agree completely. I've never been sure why they had that influence eitherjohnnnnyh
- utopian0
make the logo bigger!