and "While in [deleted] Elementary School, I had demonstrated playing piano on the song of "Fur Elise" by Beethoven, which I had received rank #1 score."... then there was the banker, who is either looking to change careers entirely, or sent his resumé to the wrong job.... however, the most common mistake people are making is seeing 'programmer' in the title, and thinking it's a programming job.
Read Morethe goat rodeo begins
every week at the office's status meeting, we all catch up on each other's projects, the theory being that we all have a rough idea of what's happening that week with the 150+ jobs our office handles a week on average.... i suspect that job X, being a very small run, probably only took up a single box, and somehow got mixed in with one of the five other jobs that printer delivered on friday. we start calling every client who came and picked up one of the other four jobs on friday, asking them to go through their boxes and check for an extra.
Read Morewebsites for $30?
i'm willing to do work for friends and acquaintances that i would never dream of doing for clients i don't know -- because i know them, know of them, or know where they live and can come collect in person.... those type of clients, i've learned the hard way, are a Royal Pain In My Ass. those are the clients who are either decent people who really have no idea what they're asking and can be trained to be good clients; or they're clients who really just want you to work for them for free.... It is committed to improving conditions for all creators of graphic art and raising standards for the entire industry.… The Guild is a union that embraces creators of graphic art at all levels of skill and expertise who create works of graphic art intended for presentation as originals or reproductions."
Read Morefont size rant
a brief rant about font size: if you are a client of mine, and you're trying to shoehorn in 2 pages' worth of copy into a single 8.5 x 11 sheet, with .5" margins, and you also want to have a form for people to write in legibly, guess what?... admit to yourself that you're getting old, and just fork over the $10 for a cheap pair of magnifying lens at the local drugstore.... now they would like it even larger, but won't cut anything, and won't let me move anything, and want more things on the page larger as well.
Read Moredesign v. style
Further, these problems present constraints; whether these originate in the client’s budget, the target audience’s availability, or in the technical limitations of the medium is immaterial.... Further, these problems present constraints; whether these originate in the client’s budget, the target audience’s availability, or in the technical limitations of the medium is immaterial.... "And, coming full circle now, kids who mistake this kind of work for design are the same ones most likely to feel that the price of admission to the ongoing discussion consists of little more than throwing one Photoshop layer over another, slapping some freeware fonts over the thing, and braying about “reprazenting.”
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