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- Peter0
Hmm,
A lot of times ones client wants to change something with whatever you're designing, right?
A great part (if not the greater part) of your job is convincing your client that you're expertise is right, and whateverthehell the client wrote on that tissue while out drinking last night - is in fact wrong.
Depending on that outcome, - from the skills outside the field of design (like negotiationg, arguing and persuading a client)- , your design might undergo change.
That is to say a designer gets his "last design" as he wants it only if he's able to maintain a good balance betwen his designskills and those other, managment skill, no? "Sort off", at least. And that's a good piece of design; it doesn't have bevels, dropshadows and lensflares for all I know. It is -your- design. Meaning that it is true to your skills.
On the other hand, there is the other designer, that someone who doesn't have those client-handling skills. He/She will likely having his "latest design" a bit altered in the end. Which in most cases not be the desired results. Not exactly something you considored "that good".
So in a somewhat general sense of answer to that statement, the guy who actually implements his desired design unaltered is the good designer, and the one who can't comes in as second.
What I am trying to say is that, in a small sense, the skills of the folks doing commercial graphic design boils down to managment skills (and that 10% of the time you actually design). The "last design" depends on it.
So that statement, "you're only as good as you're last design", might be true for working with a client, but not necessarly true for being a designer.And whad'ya know, it's nearly lunchtime.