Amateur design
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So my sister calls me up. She's not a designer. She does sales...never trained as a designer. Never has been one.
Apparently her boss saw some work she did in MS PAINT and now wants her to design a logo for their company, and some brochures as well. Yes, the company already has a "design guy" but apparently her stuff is better.
She called me to ask for my help in acquiring better tools for the job and a crash course in logo design. :(
Is there some sort of design mercenary swat team I can send to take her boss out?
- bigtrickagain0
i feel sorry for the design guy.
- bigtrickagain0
but good for your sis though - she must have done something great (despite the tools) to get her boss' attention (:
- Peter0
Amateur sister huh? :p
Like bigtrick might have been getting at: why don't you just let her play around on paper, or MS Paint, and you wrap it up in illustrator? She might get a kick out of seeing her stuff coming together.
- ukit0
- utopian0
When I saw "amateur" in the Public Voice I thought this thread was referring to Freddie McWoozy, just sayin...
- d_rek0
For a small fee I can make your sister disappear.
- meffid0
^ do this.
- sublocked0
Honestly, I even directed her to http://www.crowdspring.com/ as an alternative to suggest to her boss. Should I purify myself with holy water or something?
- ukit0
So how bad was the design guy? Maybe he deserved it.
- Thesocialgospel0
post the design
- she has not yet designed it...fortunately. i keep trying to talk her out of it.sublocked
- georgesIII0
...Should I get some kind of counseling
can't even read the word amateur without thinking about the porn sub genre...
any pics of your sis laying around ?- lollllllllll +1 milliond_rek
- yes seek help. sick fuck.sublocked
- hahahahahahbigtrickagain
- LOL!iCanHasQBN
- inv0
haha
- georgesIII0
bump 4 sis pix,
so where are they?- creepsequoia
- you guys got no sense of humour !!!georgesIII
- OSFA0
Tell her to tell her boss she's not a designer and she is not capable of producing all these materials and a logo. That's whay there are professionals out there that do this for a living, 'like my brother'. I hope you didn't consider helping her...
She can tell her boss she could draft the blueprints for their new office, start doing the company's accounting or handling all the HR and legal department duties tho....
- bigtrickagain0
I have to disagree with OSFA - there was *something* in the ms paint stuff that was good enough to catch the boss' eye, right? So why not encourage her design sensibilities rather than squash them? Yeah, she's untrained, but that doesn't mean that she can't be trained.
- is she really into design or is this something she just wants to fuck around with... if that is the case it isnt fair for designersOSFA
- I can make a killer argument against any case or draw a bad-ass building... could I actually do it with someone watching over my shoulder?OSFA
- simply watching over my shoulder or encouraging me? Nope. Now, if she really wants to go for it.. by all means...OSFA
- ETM0
I can't believe people still disrespect their own business' this much to have MS Paint wielding marketers do such important creative.
- georgesIII0
At least show us the logo,
I just want to see what Ms paint can deliver these days, maybe I'll change career