designer thinks hes too good
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- nylon0
The geezer sounds like a bit of a cunt.
He'll realise in 7 years time that he still talks bollox, still thinks he's pixel perfect, still works til midnight every night, still on a shit wage and still on the lookout for a girlfriend...
- qoob0
So are you his boss or not?
- qoob0
Does he make obvious mistakes or you just don't like the style?
- CyBrainX0
Could be a matter of more supervision/more reviewing his work at the beginning. Does he like to sketch out a layout/wireframe/storyboard before working? If so, that might be the area you can motivate better work. If he's trying to polish a turd with layer effects then more work before perfecting pixels is in order.
- he works ridgedly to wireframes if you give him them digitallytrooperbill
- i skethc things out to stop this from happening otherwise everything is boxytrooperbill
- He shouldn't stick to wires. They are just a guide, not a bible.
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- i_monk0
If pixel-perfect crispiness isn't in the brand standards manual, tell him.
But seriously, give him something to do where he has to move out of his safe area and use a different aesthetic. Then if he isn't up to the task, sit him down and tell him what you're after.
- lvl_130
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- trooperbill0
i just need a route to aproch this subject with him without him getting all high horsey about it.
- kilroii0
Shouldn't it read: "...world designer who brings international flavour to..." ?
- Continuity0
Really, one of the easiest ways to get the ball rolling with getting his work up to scratch is to simply start telling him you're not showing his work to the client. You have a responsibility to this, actually; if you're showing what you consider to be mediocre work, it reflects badly on the whole shop. So, if you keep pushing him, he'll respect you and his own work more.
If that doesn't work, hire Gordon Ramsay as his CD.
- Yes.
Channel your inner Gordon whenever in charge of people. Gordon's fucking ace.mikotondria3
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- qoob0
So he is not Mr. Modest then?
- dobre0
trooperbill, if you were his superior you have all the rights to trash his works & demand him to redo regardless his feelings, if he didnt deliver whats expected. why worry about him getting all horsey about it? thats his responsibility & its yours to get him delivers. is he the owner's son? as a designer i had my months worth of dummy literally thrown to the bin just like that by my then CD & got to redo in whole diff direction within 2 weeks, even when it wasnt my fault. stuff like that happens. be good if was delivered in a nicer way, but its just a job. if he cant even take directions & crits, he'll have it worst later. if you weren't his superior, shut your mouth ;).
- omg0
did you try storyboarding?
- scarabin0
is your issue really his work or you wanting to "knock him down a peg"?
if it's the work just do your job and give him revisions. teach him what he needs to work on. otherwise it's just your ego
- no i want to produce amazing work... at the moment its not amazingtrooperbill
- i_was0
'pixel perfect' , sounds moronish.
- Miguex0
http://images.allmoviephoto.com/…
How do we know who is able to teach who here though? For all we know, we assume you have more experience just because you got here first. Let's just wait till hedge gets here and tells his side of the story shall we?
- qoob0
Does he really wear sleeveless shirts to work?
- animatedgif0
Reminds me of designers I used to work with complaining that antialiased text wasn't "crisp" and they preferred it all to be aliased