Think Creative

When I first thought to do the final post of this discussion on clients, this was the picture that came to mind. However the humour involved in today's encounters has turned a little more cynical, with a better rendition being this funny video found on  youtube ! Is it true that the 'customer is always right?' Can a designer have any control of the visual outcome of a project or is it the plain truth that all aspects are under the control of the guy with the purse strings? How can clients be influenced as well, and how can become clients? There are a great deal of questions associated with this area of design control it is again a large subject. I am a big fan of ' Mad Men '. Not only a well crafted tv series, but also delivers the dream notion on what graphic design and client relationship should be like. It is however, set in the 60's, which makes an amazing difference in the understanding of the way this relationship works. They are treated like they know w...

*Note: Before I start I would like to point out that in no way am I trying to sell myself as being a great expert at design. I do however, enjoy what I do and pain myself to deliver quality work for my clients. Whom I think would agree on, on such matter. I do use the logo example above as it is the closest to showing what I would like to get across as an argument. Plus, if you can't blow your own trumpet once in a while in the economic crisis then who will. That all said, I am drawing to a close a development on a website, that has basically been going on for nearly two years now. The initial approach was based on the above logo. The lady in question, who has now become a good friend ( and should I say loyal fan ) asked me to do something about her logo. I took one look at it and nearly cried. The sadness grew when the client in question told me that the logo was designed by a graphic artist. She originally asked me to just do something about the pepper character in the centre. ...