UGH. I'm feeling very defeated at work today. I've had to create two flyers that essentially look like a couple of pizza flyers vomited up an entirely new atrocity in eye damage/brain damage nuclear weapon assault. I created these as per the directions of others here. I think the design aesthetic here is "Let NO white space go unfilled! Let NO word be left out!". So basically, creating things that you would never use to represent your work is disheartening. THEN I create other flyers and when I'm finally done and they are ready to print beautifully, I find out that they want to email them to people so that they can print them themselves and they have to be turned into small file size JPG'S (WTF?) and so there goes the whole clarity and printability of said 8.5 x 11 flyers, sigh.
Finally, I've been getting more and more thrown at me as my responsibility, in areas I know nothing about nor do I want to (database management? Really? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZERO INTEREST IN THIS FIELD AND BY THE WAY PEOPLE GO TO SCHOOL FOR THIS, I WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE ZZZZZZ I FELL ASLEEP AGAIN) Obviously a money saving tactic as I am good with computers, a quick study and make a low salary, definitely 1/2 what someone with database expertise would expect to make. And this is ON TOP OF my web site design & maintenance/advertising design/computer maintenance (yes, I already have 2 jobs in one.)
I don't like this. AT ALL.






3 dirty hippies blowing your mind:
believe it or not, people go to school for graphic design too.
You sound like my bf, he's the head graphic designer for a nationwide clothing company and frequently comes home with the same kinds of design problems. Disheartening to know it happens elsewhere, particularly to you :(
Anonymous - What is that suppose to mean exactly? If you are implying that I have no design training you'd be mistaken, although I didn't study in a graphic design program per se I did indeed spend 3 years studying Advertising following the creative stream of the program which covered A LOT of design. After that, I took several courses in web design. As far as database management, I have exactly ZERO training or experience. May I also point out (although I really shouldn't feel obligated to) that I am not taking direction from "designers" as in fact I am the entire creative dept. at my workplace and am being asked to recreate the ideas of people with zero training or background in design of any sort. So yes, I find that frustrating. Why this offends you is anyone's guess.
Alyson - I guess it's unavoidable, people want what they want and you just have to deliver.
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