design shake up
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- blastofv0
usually 6-8 projects that require a half days work minimum, and the rest are smaller but more urgent.
the small stuff interrupts the larger projects, and everything suffers as a result. time is all whacked out here, and an average turnaround for creative concepts is 2 days. I'm lucky if I can dedicate a few hours in a row to anything.
and I'm out of here once the right pieces fall into place with the rest of my life/family/geography etc...so I'm hunkered down for now
- blastofv0
maybe it was the time crunch, but I did 3 interface designs yesterday for a client that probably won't ever go through with a site re-design, and I swear every single one looked exactly like every other interface I've designed in the last 6 months
maybe it's just a web design rut that I'm in...clients expect certain things with web layouts, and I oblige because they pay me to oblige
- blastofv0
note to self for Thursday:
fu**ing snap out of it
- doesnotexist0
always push as hard as you can. it's rough.
- jdcomba0
don't let the man get you down...
- visualplane0
Have fun with it!
- mjbauer0
Great idea. I'm in. I've been playing it safe for too long. Time to get uncomfortable.
- honest0
I'm going to take one of my 15+ design projects that I have piled up at work...
blastofv
(Feb 22 06, 17:53)15+??? What kind of a sweat shop studio do you work in??!?
- blastofv0
the sweatiest of sweatshops
actually, it's a decent little agency, but they keep us stupid busy, which means we start cranking out rushed creative work
- jdcomba0
kittens and rainbows
- Wolfboy0
actually, it's a decent little agency, but they keep us stupid busy, which means we start cranking out rushed creative work
blastofv
(Feb 23 06, 05:59)sounds so fuckin' familiar. I am thinking about moving on soon because we have been told point blank there is no budget for new staff, but we are regularly pulling 10-12 hour days and still only churning work out. pisses me right off.
- chameleonic0
Kitten and Rainbows is some far out freaky shit. Beliieeeeevveee!
- honest0
DO IT, YEAH, DO IT, DO IT NOW.
- blastofv0
that's right – not enough business to require an entry level designer to relieve the load, but plenty of work to keep the 4 of us in the creative department on autopilot with major workloads and no time
but that just makes the good work that much sweeter when it makes it through all the beuro-shit to press
- fifty500
I'm getting on this gravy train, but only if it has biscuits for wheels.
- TheAristocrat0
When you say 15+ projects are you talking, each being full on website design and catalog design etc... or do you have smaller projects like banner ads placed in there. How much time do they give you to complete this? and how long until you're out of there?
Just curious