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- shapesalad1
Started new job and the team are about 25% into a big project, they have settled on a creative route and got the client onboard. It worked in the little 'preview' they did, but as we fill out this big project and try to communicate the nuances of the content with this limited creative route, it's just becoming a dogs dinner.
I just can't think of design solutions when the end result is a turd.
But this is what the others in the team are churning out. Staggering eye sores of turds all bashed together mincing up the original clean creative route. Non of it works as an elegant design solution to communicate the content. Instead it's all awkward and ugly in its communication.
All I want to do is trash everything done so far and start again over with a new creative solution, route, design language and visual approach that is more suitable for the content. I even worked one up, it's so simple to find a route that would work.
But I can't show this to the team, or derail it... it's too late, they sold their route to the client and they are 25% along with the project.
I'm barely getting anything done working from home as i just can't bare to look at this turd.
Man it's hard to think of ugly design solution. Every time the team upload new stuff I'm take aback "oh this is what they are doing with this creative route... no wonder I can't think of any ideas... My god! my eyes, my eyes!"
Unfortunately... I have to go with the herd here and churn out turds...
This is the hardest work I've ever had to do....
- ffs they need to go back to the client and fess up the original route isn't working as they'd hoped. explain it's all part of the creative process, it's normalhans_glib
- and that the revised version will be much more workable and better for the client in the long run. otherwise the project is destined to crash and burnhans_glib
- as the client eventually notices the huge pile of turdhans_glib
- Clients appreciate change of plans when motivated + in their interest.
If you believe your route is better for all, you must at least mention it to the team.spl33nidoru - problem is, they, the team, are totally into this creative dogs dinner route. And as I've just started, I don't want to establish and them vs me situation.shapesalad
- Design being subjective and all - are you wholly sure it's simply that it doesn't suit your taste?Nairn
- *not sure, ffs.Nairn
- You're going to deliver a turd because 1/4 of the way into the project you don't have the balls to do the right thing? this is exactly the time to raise a flag.zarkonite
- If my reports behaved this way I'd consider letting them go.zarkonite
- or what Nairn said...zarkonite
- Why taste is beyond question ;-)shapesalad
- Anyway... my suggested route has been rejected by the client before.. so it's seems this is a silly client problem, though i think agency should have pressed onshapesalad