where my girls at?
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- monkeyshine0
How many of you are female designers?
Me
Are you freelance?
sometimes...other times full time AD
What is your area of expertise?
interactive, social media, oreos
What issues do you continually find challenging in this business - either related or unrelated to gender?
client. clients are most challenging. and bad managers...even more challenging than bad clients.- agreed. bad managers or evil in the hierarchy is ten times worse than bad clients.emmaopeel
- hi! (waves). good to hear that you are doing well and broke free from the corp empiremonkeyshine
- hi! big wave! it is almost hot soup season, no? weren't we talking about a winter gathering two years ago?emmaopeel
- !! We did talk about this gathering. Is two years enough lead time? It might be time to make it happen.monkeyshine
- allysin0
I'm a girl. Used to do graphic design (print and web) but just focusing on my own work now. Never really had problems with working with guys. Actually, I sometimes found women more challenging. Anyway, nice to meet you all!
- megE0
yeah ive had more issues with women in the work place than men (if it's a gender related issue)
- yeah, maybe women sometimes feel that they have to "prove" themselves" in leadership roles and overdo it?allysin
- gotta be it - and theyre dramatic and pettymegE
- i hate to perpetuate a stereotype but guys can be more laid back and easier to work with sometimes. I know that is a pretty blanket statement though.allysin
- that is a blanket statement. Sorry ladies! Really I don't often have issues.allysin
- i feel at home in these comments...
;)madirish - I think it is the type of woman that you work with...emmaopeel
- I've had some bad experiences with "friends" becoming "account" folks...
emmaopeel - as a female i agree. Sometimes well most times a lot of us judge other females just b/c they're females. Its totally a subconscience response to how much it takes for us to be taken seriously.tedismyfav
- I think you are right emmaopeel.allysin
- emmaopeel0
oop. and after that longwinded comment, I forgot a few things... I work primarily in interactive, and...
One of the biggest challenges as a freelancer is balancing my own clients with work that I do through agencies. Both have their positives and negatives, but a solid stock of the former is beginning to be my ideal (no matter how challenging a client can be, an agency is usually worse). However, right now agencies have a serious shortage of talent to draw from and seem desperate to have folks doing on-site work. As much as I like having a long slow cup of tea in the morning, I also appreciate a sudden surge in my bank account, so I waffle between weeks of working on my own schedule to doing the typical ten to twelve hour days as a contractor. Particularly with so much fright in the economy, it is nice to have some immediate pay contracts.
- _salisae_0
may i ask why you want to know?
- The "To Be Stalked" pile is a little slim these dayslocustsloth
- looks like someone did not read the questions before class....
;)madirish - well i was wondering if it's for an article or a cause outside of of stalking purposes._salisae_
- just want to reach out to my fellow ladiesiamlo
- emmaopeel0
I agree : there are some women that I've worked with that have a very alpha-female approach to projects. I can generally agree with just about everyone, but men can oftentimes be more receptive to criticism (well, I may have worked with special fellows) than some of the women I've worked with. I think it all depends on the chemistry of the group and how managers stimulate, encourage, and inspire their teams (as euphoric and optimistic as that sounds).
- tedismyfav0
*checks in pants*
Here! Yup, I'm definitely a female.
I do design for a company who owns a chain of restaurants and various other businesses...if you want to call it design after they hack it up. I do freelance jobs here and there on the side and contract photo work as well. I'm in Detroit tho so really its anything to pay the bills. Haven't had a chance for stellar design since college.I'm a print designer. Love doing books and publication/multiple page stuff. My biggest problem at my main job there is only one of me and like 5 bosses for about 8 businesses...all a family. So half the family hates me for no good reason so they rarely listen, just yell like I'm a moron. The other half don't know anything or have any art/design taste but think they're the shit (men btw) so they get the ego kickin and scream and yell as if my degree stands for nothing. Basically they put out crap for years and it worked for some odd reason so they think they know. People don't realize good design takes time and will increase the revenue they already make. Thats the biggest issue. That and I'm the youngest in the office so though I have more education and experience in this then everyone here combined...no one will take me seriously b/c i'm "young."
On the other hand...in freelance I have used my womanly powers to get a good idea to sell. Not ashamed either b/c after that one little hair flip the client saw good design and trusted me from then on out. A 1 month job turned into almost a year and still tickin.
- Clinton twnshp? I live in sterling hgts right by lakeside mall... nice to know others like me exist!d_rek
- other designersd_rek
- yeah i totally get clients through the good ole hair flip trick myself.antares
- haha nice! Nice to meet you! Now we gotta talk!tedismyfav
- Indeed!d_rek
- tedismyfav, check yer snail mail :Dd_rek
- my parents live in the Rivergate sub on romeo plank and hall rd.mcLeod
- cool...i'm off 16...got friends in rivergate. did you go to cvhs or the dreaded dhs?tedismyfav
- monkeyshine0
interesting point. I think one of the only good things about contracting on site with an agency (besides the money) is when you feel like you can't take it anymore your project ends and you get to move on without guilt or hurt feelings.
- ********0
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
- OSFA0
Yaaayy! We got some girls here but damn! where did all these females come from? I have never seen some of them around in other threads...
- like the cock of the day thread? who woulda thought?vanilla_cam
- OSFA0
- monkeyshine0
I would love to go out on my own and I did it when I lived in the South but I'm in Bostonia now and it stressed me out to not know if I will be able to pay my mortgage in 3 months. I'm wimp, I guess.
- redant0
I know we need a female QBN!
- we can talk about design guys and latest fashion etc! anyway going home nowredant
- one thread and you guys already plotting??? Damn, it's just like High School again...OSFA
- all the guys will just create fake profiles to hear what youre sayingmcLeod
- hahha, are we that desperate and sad?? hahaha!OSFA
- "QBN for girls" would be the biggest sausagefest everscarabin_net
- megE0
hahaha unfortunately i think there would be penis and boobs plastered over any thread from the mature males we have floating around here ;)
<3 ya guys
- ukit0
It's weird because in college design classes it was about 50/50 M/F...but at the different jobs I've had I've met very few females graphic designers.
- i got hired b/c i was a girl. go figure...they wanted a "lighter touch" funny b/c i have no light touch to my design and their style is not light.tedismyfav
- megE0
my classes were majority female - only 5 guys in graduating class and now where i'm at it's all guys (but i work with mostly architects...)
i did work at a marketing company in Cincinnati that worked on Olay and Pantene - horrible job, all women!
- barbara0
m/f designers have been pretty balanced in my experience.
i would talk about design guys and latest fashion. ;)
- ukit0
My impression was that girls tended more towards print...and guys to web and interactive. I work in interactive, so maybe that's why. That's a horrible stereotype I know but I think it might be true for now.
- i know more girls in print - more guys in web/interactive... i would agree, i think that's why i work with mostly guys since i think they lean towards architecturemegE
- ...that's why i work with mostly guys since i think they lean towards architecturemegE
- I read somewhere that girls are not allowed to be architechtsspendogg
- agree with girls=print guys = webtedismyfav