January 2010
20 posts
Client: “We’ve decided we need a warmer blue in our logo.”
Me: “Blue is a cool color.”
Client: “Well, just make it warmer, whatever that takes.”
Me: “It’s impossible. Blue either becomes green or purple.”
Client: “We don’t like either of those options. Just do your best to warm it up without changing it dramatically. You’re the designer. We know you can do it.”
to be fair, the designer could have dug a little deeper to find out what the client meant by “warmer” rather than just assuming its art-dictionary definition.
there was obviously an end result partially-visualized in the client’s mind, perhaps the current blue was a loud, bright turqoise. changing it to a richer, cobalt blue or indigo could easily be seen as ‘warming’ up the blue (as in making it friendly and more inviting)
is this like design pragmatics?
I think this is an interesting concept. Clients can be difficult, certainly, but it’s also important to remember that they’re often not very knowledgeable about what designers do (which is why they hired one, right?). It’s easy to take the “my client is an idiot, I have it so hard” approach just because the client doesn’t speak the same language. Design is an abstract thing, it’s difficult to describe in words for someone who does it every day, much less someone who knows nothing about it.
The Trees Grew Emotions And Died
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Cold Cave - The Trees Grew Emotions and Died
“In an era when Hollywood has largely lost the ability to distinguish between romance and sex, ‘Once’ is the rare film that recognizes that love is no less love for being held in check, it is merely a different kind of love.”
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Love Over Gold | The New Republic
I can’t believe I’ve waiting this long to see this movie. I absolutely loved it.
Making a Mixtape*
*It’s a CD, sue me.
“In the end, Conan was appreciative of the steps NBC made to take care of his staff and crew, and decided to supplement the severance they were getting out of his own pocket,”
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Conan O’Brien inks deal with NBC - Jan. 21, 2010
This is why I’m with CoCo. You know, aside from the fact that he’s so damn funny.
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Mixtape Project
In a bout of sleeplessness last night (see 2:30am tumblr posts as evidence) I had an interesting idea. Or an idea that I think is interesting, anyway. I want to make you a mixtape. Or CD rather, because not everybody still has their Walkman from 1993 like I do. But yeah. A custom mix CD with custom cover art by yours truly. This serves a dual purpose, as I love making mixes and need to create more design / illustration / etc etc. I’ve started a list. Do you want to be on it? Email me. [mjchamplin@gmail.com]
