ack! dern clients
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- jpea
ok, so i'm re"webbing" a branding firms site.
here's what they gave me to work with:
-olive green (A0BC94)
-monochromatic
-flat in style
-convey sky, road, tires, movementok, so:
sky=blue
road=black
tires=black
movement=somehow not green unless it's your lunch coming upwtf?
oh, all this plus slapping their red/orange logo in it somewhere...ideas?
- ER0
you dont have to be literal in color. you know, there are no rules.
- sputnik0
why sky=blue?
why tyres=black?
- jpea0
no, the main reason really is that they have a promo dvd already made and now they want a site to go with it in color and style... i'm having a huge brain fart today and for some reason, can't find any successful way to deviate from their rules.
- Raind0g0
then just go with it. why waste time and energy?
- jpolk0
maybe you h should hire a designer ;)
- Peter0
Looks like you have a problem.
Design is problem-solving.
Be a designer.
Good luck man.
- JazX0
funny jpolk, hahaha :)
- BonSeff0
gotta love a branding firm farming out their website with a vague direction. good luck. i see many revisions in your future
- loop0
in their dvd promo, is the sky blue? think of sunsets/rises. reds. purples. there's a whole nother "monochromatic" scheme there...
usually in this case i do something along the lines of what they are thinking they want, then do one version of what you as a designer recommend. and make sure your words back it up.
i just hope my circumstances of late don't happen..."hey, we like elements from both..". argh!
- BonSeff0
btw, have you seen their dvd?
- DeLeon0
do a vectorial treatment of a road scene, with light and dark variations of the green...
they want it "flat" in style, dunno if that means they want it FLAT or they had an illustration treatment in mind
- jpea0
i saw their dvd yesterday in a meeting.. all shades of greens. Nothing else... the designer they hired to make that really was a nice illustrator, something that's not my strong point:-
i think for now i got over my block and came up with something that i really like as well... just kinda looks a little 7up'ish right now.. but looks pretty nice:-)
i'll check and see in the morn what they think.