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- cannonball1978
I've been on this project for like 4 months now and all we've done so far is the home page.
Any of you ever had long projects like this?
- ukit0
Pics? Must be an amazing homepage.
- MrNibs0
i've worked on sites scheduled to be done in 2 months and had them take a year and a half. (not continual work on them though)
usually it's client falling silent for month long stretches and content not getting to us in time.
But ukit's right, that has got to be the best homepage ever.
- vaxorcist0
change of client staff? Is the company about to be bought? Unclear business objectives? Does it seem like this is somebody's pet project but that somebody has somehow lost power in the client's company?
- shifting requirements and too many stakeholderscannonball1978
- too many stakeholders - I'm doing alot of work for Sky atm and that phrase brings me out in a cold sweat.Wolfboy
- meffid0
12 months full time on one site...
- 5tim0
8 months - awards book for huge industrial design software company.
- http://www.joefarquh…5tim
- Half of that was getting sign-off on the design. The rest was production and waiting for images to come in from the nominees.5tim
- nominees.5tim
- Looks cleanCygnusZero4
- iCanHasQBN0
4 months? i wish all of our projects were that short.
- lambsy0
2 years on stationery and color palette.
our team met with client every 2 weeks, showed comps, designs, mockups. absolutely beautiful stuff. she'd write all over the comps, making changes, we'd come back 2 weeks later & she'd have new ideas. went on and on and on. rich crazy lady. you have no idea how much she paid.
- you could say this project was stationary.iCanHasQBN
- @ canhaz... lol.meffid
- utopian0
3 months, watching paint dry.
- bjladams0
last year did about 10 months on a brushed alum sign: every couple of days "move it over about 1/8 inch to the left- now to the right" by the end, they had the same sign they started with
- CygnusZero40
About 8 months on an interactive piece for Nike. It didnt even turn out that great, way too many cooks in the kitchen on that one.
- nike is like that. lots of calfs sucking the teat dickcannonball1978
- d_rek0
10 months - Brand Identity for a non-profit
Incredibly hard to schedule time with them. Meetings with client were literally strategy and/or working sessions, not decision making sessions. Then, after 9 months, we produced all of their branding materials and website in 2 weeks. o_O1 yr, 3 mos to date - Book for an Contemporary Art Museum. Fucking most incredibly slow motherfuckers ever in fucking existing. Still in production. Uhg.
- that sounds like it was a hell of a rushcannonball1978
- nonprofits can have lots of meetings with no decisions, then sudden mania...vaxorcist
- a big issue for nonprofits is unclear decision making structure... who has to really say yes or no?vaxorcist
- Amicus0
2 years, 4 months – Fundraising book for a Synagogue/Community.
The biggest problem has been getting anyone on the client end to actually provide content and/or signoff on content. I'm guessing that it might actually be finished in another couple of months.
- cannonball19780
I'm hoping this wraps in 2, but I'm thinking it'll be like 2 with an extra month of follow-up and IA consulting.
- drgz0
I studied F-shaped reading patterns with Jakob Nielsen for 20 years
- xcarlx0
my background is in architecture, and they have projects go on for years and years
- miesvan0
a house, five years...
- Knuckleberry0
doing environmental signage for a site up in northern california (napa) and it took 3 years for completion. i am doing a similarly long project in irvine right now... it kills me when it takes this long... i lose sooooo much interest.
- ali0
Just over 2 years Illustrating a children's book in my spare time, nearing the finish line.... it has been a challenge, especially without pay.
- BaskerviIle0
2 years on a big global brand, initial rebrand takes 6-8 months, the rest is then managing the implementation around the world, training staff about the new brand etc
- indian_pole0
bout 4 hours.