Architects
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- TheBlueOne0
I've been working on a site for an architect for 6mos now about to wrap it up.
The guy is Swiss-German and his one thing he said off the bat was: " I don't want it cold. Everything is this technical fonts and geomtetric. I want warmth."
Then he handed me his business card which was two shades of brown set with Times New Roman and said "Like this..."
Sigh. But the guy actually has been a pleasure to work with in general except his unbending desire to put up literally everything he's done over the last twenty years. "Is it really important on this restaurant facade renovation you did in 1981 to have 30 pictures?" I ask. "Absolutely!" the client says.
But having spent ten years working with architects from the construction management side they don't intimidate me. And I'll tell you dazzle them back with your knowledge of webdesign and they'll respect you a bit more. One thing I said during the pitch and during follow up meetings was that web design is different than architecture - imagine if everyone who potentially could come along and look at your building would see it differently? And then I started to passionately discuss html5 and typekit and whatever for about five minutes about the changes, and how Iwish the web would have something like the AIA for standards (I don't really wish this, but it sounded good). And then he showed me an example site of a another firm that is obviously done in Flash, that he says "well this looks the same"..and I noticed he had an iphone and I said, "Well, look at it there..." and minutes later of course he couldn't see anything and I said "How often do you look on the internet on your iphone?" "All the time.." "And you will never be able to see that firms site there."
Essentially architects thrive on commanding knowledge of alot of detail and ego (and little relation to real world costs), hit 'em back with your own knowledge and ego with web design and be passionate and authorative about it. They'll respect it.
- Good insightmeffid
- lol about 30 pictures.... :-))Miesfan
- Yeah...good thing I priced it correctly...TheBlueOne