Ideals / Reality
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- grafiske
Does anyone work for / know of / heard of / seen the website of any sort of creative company that has a mission statement or company objective that is kind of like this:
We are the designers you are not so when we come up with 5 ideas, we are going to pick the best one because you know nothing about what looks good.
But stated in a customer loving / appealing / condsuive to business type of way...
Hella?
- Mimio0
The one's that can/do don't have to say that.
- marcoloco0
beats me, do you? If I had any info I would definitly be more than happy to share ideas with you. Because thats what this site is all about, right?
OR we could get into a big philosofical ethical debate on art and design, which I sense you're trying to imply, but in this case I think it would be kinda trivial....or ambiguous. Or should I say, a waist of my productive time ....like ranting and whining or something...
- grafiske0
I am not sure if that was an insult or a neutral statement.
Anyway, I am not whining, I am new to how extreme client choices can be (good or bad) and I was wondering if any company had found a good way to state that it is their job..
I know the company I am working for now goes with some client ideas that don't seem that great.
I am looking for links to companies who have really concise statements about that kind of thing.. so I can in the future know how to deal with the situation, I'm an amatuer, you have to be sometimes.
- Bluejam0
"What to do when your client won't buy?
Do it his way. Then do it your way.
A client often has a fair idea what he wants. If you show him what you want and not what he wants, he'll say that's not what he asked for.
If, however, you show him what he wants first, he is then relaxed and prepared to look at what you want to sell him.
You've allowed him to become magnanimous instead of putting him in a corner.
Give him what he wants and he may well give you what you want.
There is also the possibility that he may be right."
Paul Arden
- jox0
Sounds like HuhCorp-talk to me
http://www.huhcorp.com/
- jevad0
hahaha - thats a piss take right?
- jox0
"Our creative team will come up with ideas you never even thought of. How could you? You don't have the talent we do. Don't take it personally. That's our job. That's what we do. We do stuff.
Most companies like ours just provide regular solutions. Not us. We provide solutions that are revolutionary and groundbreaking. Our solutions are newer than anyone else's, and they sound better because we give them cool titles like "Global Awareness Paradigms," and "Market Consciousness Philosophies," and "Creative Product Re-development Support."
hahahaha man I LOVE that site!
- dstlb0
Haha, that's brilliant! Sounds like a couple of agencies I've worked at :)
- blackspade0
...classic!
- Nirvous0
Bluejam is dead on in his statement. Sounds like he has been around the block with sketchy clients ... most of us have ... and few designers know how to handle the situation.