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- gramme0
A little over two years on a brand standards manual. It was only finished after I left that studio, and they put it in one of those "magazine" viewer browsers. I had specifically designed it horizontally for easy on-screen reading, but the brilliant minds who finished the project in my stead set the book in spreads. So the type was basically illegible.
Not that anyone was missing great reading... it ended up reading more like a convoluted labyrinth of corporate upheaval than anything else. So I guess that's why it was so disappointing to me: over two years spent creating a massive pile of irrelevance.
*drinks
- hektor9110
Restaurant Project took 6 months... from ID to signage, the menu alone took 4 months hahahaha .. got to luv working for the restaurant industry..
- exador10
over a year on a project for X-prize. The latest x-prize is for automotive (the last one i believe was the lunar xprize, with all those folks building rockets and spaceships etc, this latest one is for building a car that does a minimum of 100 mpg etc....
it's been a fantastic ride working with these guys (no pun intended) and i enjoyed it a lot.....incredibly interesting work they're doing....
http://tracker.progressiveautoxp…
- welded0
7 months or so and counting, off and on for me, for a major bank. Big project, lots of interested parties, and other 3rd party vendors to coordinate means everything takes forever but when a deadline hits it cannot be missed. :/ Delivering 10 minutes to midnight is technically still by end of day, right?
- maikel0
1,6 years,
re-branding for a shite company... loads of work and very limited resources2+ years on a wayfinding project, from starting the bidding to manufacture/installation of the programme.
Right now working on the delivery of another one like that.
I believe I liked my life better when working on digital agencies O_o
- indian_pole0
bout 4 hours.
- BaskerviIle0
2 years on a big global brand, initial rebrand takes 6-8 months, the rest is then managing the implementation around the world, training staff about the new brand etc
- ali0
Just over 2 years Illustrating a children's book in my spare time, nearing the finish line.... it has been a challenge, especially without pay.
- Knuckleberry0
doing environmental signage for a site up in northern california (napa) and it took 3 years for completion. i am doing a similarly long project in irvine right now... it kills me when it takes this long... i lose sooooo much interest.
- miesvan0
a house, five years...
- xcarlx0
my background is in architecture, and they have projects go on for years and years
- drgz0
I studied F-shaped reading patterns with Jakob Nielsen for 20 years
- cannonball19780
I'm hoping this wraps in 2, but I'm thinking it'll be like 2 with an extra month of follow-up and IA consulting.
- Amicus0
2 years, 4 months – Fundraising book for a Synagogue/Community.
The biggest problem has been getting anyone on the client end to actually provide content and/or signoff on content. I'm guessing that it might actually be finished in another couple of months.
- d_rek0
10 months - Brand Identity for a non-profit
Incredibly hard to schedule time with them. Meetings with client were literally strategy and/or working sessions, not decision making sessions. Then, after 9 months, we produced all of their branding materials and website in 2 weeks. o_O1 yr, 3 mos to date - Book for an Contemporary Art Museum. Fucking most incredibly slow motherfuckers ever in fucking existing. Still in production. Uhg.
- that sounds like it was a hell of a rushcannonball1978
- nonprofits can have lots of meetings with no decisions, then sudden mania...vaxorcist
- a big issue for nonprofits is unclear decision making structure... who has to really say yes or no?vaxorcist
- CygnusZero40
About 8 months on an interactive piece for Nike. It didnt even turn out that great, way too many cooks in the kitchen on that one.
- nike is like that. lots of calfs sucking the teat dickcannonball1978
- bjladams0
last year did about 10 months on a brushed alum sign: every couple of days "move it over about 1/8 inch to the left- now to the right" by the end, they had the same sign they started with
- utopian0
3 months, watching paint dry.