Embarrassing projects
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- arseni
Do you have projects you're embarrassed to show to other people because it just turned out lame?
And i mean real commercial projects you got paid for :)
- version30
there's plenty in the bank not in my portfolio. i hate when that happens too.
- arseni0
i have one and it's not even finished yet :) i really tried hard with a client to suggest him certain things to make it better, but he's got such a strong opinion that he's right that i can't help it... i almost feel like the client is doing it using my hands.
it sucks.
- akoni0
of course
- TheBlueOne0
i almost feel like the client is doing it using my hands.
it sucks.
arseni
(Feb 20 07, 19:56)And that sandwich you're eating for lunch? It's almost as if the money to buy it was coming right from the clients wallet.
- mayo0
got a few. Makes the portfolio damn skimpy. Does anyone, in their portfolio, show the options you gave your client and then the one they chose and butchered?
- akoni0
got a few. Makes the portfolio damn skimpy. Does anyone, in their portfolio, show the options you gave your client and then the one they chose and butchered?
mayo
(Feb 20 07, 20:07)no but i just try to say that i worked for a certain client and did such and such programming for them instead :)
- mayo0
HAhahaaa
- version30
Does anyone, in their portfolio, show the options you gave your client and then the one they chose and butchered?
mayo
(Feb 20 07, 20:07)no, i hate giving them the impression that should happen
- akoni0
Does anyone, in their portfolio, show the options you gave your client and then the one they chose and butchered?
mayo
(Feb 20 07, 20:07)no, i hate giving them the impression that should happen
version4
(Feb 20 07, 20:25)I show them, i just don't tell them I did it, and say some shitty designer or developer just couldn't cut it :)
- paraselene0
at least 90% of the stuff i work on here...
- basebase0
yep... wont shot them to you cos it's pish!
:-/
- RoomFive0
Yep, l o a d s !
...And most of them had an initial idea that was really cool, but the client said "no it's too creative", and so they got shit in it's place!
- rafalski0
even the best companies dump well paid crap nobody gets to hear of :)
- Baskerville0
there's no reason you can't show a better option in your folio rather than the worse option the client chose.
you still designed it. I've got a few things in my folio that show a better option for a project than the final result.
- chossy0
Baked bean wrestling, I got a stiffy in the edit he he.
- kelpie0
most of the stuff, to be honest, or certainly if we're talking about how good things *look* and how designy they are. Not too much wow in the portfolio, tbh, I'm reasonably proud of a lot of the more technical/interface aspects of some of the stuff I've done, particularly for the bigger clients.
- Nairn0
I'm about to start a wee job for a friend's company which I know will turn out ruff.
I could do it my own way and maybe be quite happy with it - but I've spent the last 3 years drilling the merits of brand cohesion into him. Now I'm stuck with his logo and 'font' and have to make it fit with all the DIY stuff they've done so far.
Smart move, dickie, smart move.
- blaw0
anytime you see a portfolio link to a screenshot instead a url, you know the client's been getting their money's worth out of the CMS.
- kelpie0
hahaha, never a truer word was said, blaw, spot on :D
- paraselene0
*applause for blaw