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- ********0
hi
- Jaline0
soo...
- I'm starving, but I should get some work done. I can eat later...
*stay tuned to see me turn into the HulkJaline - the HulkJaline
- That’s my department.MrOneHundred
- I'm starving, but I should get some work done. I can eat later...
- PonyBoy0
Cheese & Stuff on Central and Camelback makes amazing bagel breakfast sandwiches
- ********0
Sometimes I wonder what teachers will teach the kids in the future about art history. I mean, we are learning now about Van Gogh and that stuff. will they learn about us?
- i already teach my son about you tom7point34
- Yeah, my first lecture will be about some kid named, "Messy-haired Timmy".Jaline
- hahahah :D I hope I ever get kids. i'll teach them about the QBN crew********
- "my son, back in my days.. i was a member on a community, and i did some wicked shit on there"********
- I'll be dead by then********
- I'll definitely hide QBN from them. Who knows what kinds of secrets they could find.Jaline
- neue75_bold0
I've been trying to finish this estimate for 2 hours...
- think I'll turn off the internet...neue75_bold
- just jot down 2 bits and call it a dayninjasavant
- charge for the 2hours********
- canuck0
Estimate:
$ ______ for ______ .
Fill in those blanks and fax it off.
- maybe just include the total cost with no breakdown or explanation...neue75_bold
- Even better.canuck
- Horp0
My mind keeps coming back to Hydro74. Not for the discussions he's prompted so far, but becuase I am amazed and perplexed by someone's abiity to put so much work and time and detail into commercial art.
For a time I had aspirations to be as polished, as dedicated, as driven by (and towards) meticulous and highly detailed perfection in my work.
When I held those aspirations I was at war with my clients constantly. I would craft and sweat blood and dreams to create soemthing amazing and they would say "Can we have the logo bigger, the surfboard should maybe be a helicopter, the scrolls here could be more like flames and over there, and the guy's face... could we have a dog's face, but like a devil, and not on the front but on the back, oh and can you put our logo in the middle, really big. Also, change the colour scheme. And the texture. And the typeface"
And it was that constant battle that I made a conscious decision to give up for the benefit of my health and my relationship. Also, with the steady decline in prices, how does someone like Hydro74 manage to justify spending that amount of time on something that has halved in value every other year?
By far the most I ever got paid for illustration work was the first ever commission I got when I had no work to show anyone to prove my worth. I got paid a fortune and after that its got cheaper and cheaper steadily, and now I only work to a degree that reflects the remuneration.
Two reasons why my portfolio is a stinker. How does someone like that do it? I would have been locked up by now for murdering a client.
- ********0
how is the emails, horpie :D
- canuck0
copy > paste
- shit>fridgeJnr_Madison
- in out?canuck
- Depends how I am feeling.Jnr_Madison
- Jaline0
LOL. View the suggestion:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=e…
- ********0
"Hi Guys, this is pretty close to it!!!
I will follow up with price changes hopefully today.
Sorry for the delay, but the sooner the better, we really need to bust this out before we have to close up shop, not a funny joke but things really are getting worse by the day, I hope this will help.
Thanks"
- Horp0
"how is the emails, horpie :D"
Whut?
- Huh?canuck
- ^^^^ 4 posts up ^^^^Horp
- *sexes up the sausage*killthefish
- * Dances the Falastico with aspirated valve technology.Horp
- kelpie0
rand, just interested that you/your clients emails have referred to "we"/"you guys" inrespect to your work recently; does your wife work with you and is she also a designer or take care of account stuff while you design? Or have you got employees? cos hot damn they's unlucky kids...
- I jest on the last point, of coursekelpie
- (or, option 3; am I an idiot barking up the wrong tree completely?)kelpie
- There is more than one Rand.Jaline
- ah, of course, option 4kelpie
- OR: option 5, shut it you nosey parker.
sorry old son :-/kelpie - yes, kelpster, my wife and I work together; I design, she is the person who interfaces with clients for the most part********
- and is the person people think of when they think of us********
- cheers, sorry for being nosey, just wondered.kelpie
- Same as me and my gwife Randsan.Horp
- i start seeing a pattern.Fariska
- I need to marry a talented designer.kelpie
- and possibly an account handler as well.kelpie
- I can have two wifes, right?kelpie
- Seriously you want spend lots of time arguing about which color the curtains should be?Fariska
- nosiness no problem********
- the two of them can do that, I'll put my feet up and smoke cigars in "the den"kelpie
- Fariska0
I wonder if this Kate Moross is something more than just a sound name.
- Horp0
Killthefish, have you seen Jnr_Madison's webisto?
- Who the fuck is jnr_madison?canuck
- who the fuck is killthefist? And no, not as of now, but based on this mysterious question...killthefish
- i'll go stick my head in a camel's ass.killthefish
- is this the only page on the blog that jnr_madison doesn't have a post on?killthefish
- I thought he didn't have that there anymore. But it's back. Should I rip a dangle for somebody to hear?killthefish
- kelpie0
IMF reckons the UK is the most fucked country in the world by our current financial problems. Much as I've poured some scorn on some of the doom and gloom here and tried to be positive about job prospects in my sector of our profession, I am genuinely worried that right at the point I finally decide to move to London after all these years, there will be F all jobs available as our economy shrinks drastically.
See the thing is, I am in no way exceptional, really at anything, let alone design, so I worry about my prospects in an ever increasingly competitive market. boo.
- ********0
to amend note on previous page:
chance of getting paid by client for last unbilled six months: 0- oooftkelpie
- shouldn't this be in the rand thread?7point34
- what is a giclee print?neue75_bold
- Fariska0
Dear brits.
Can you conquer all the Europe by Monday and impose English as the unique and language for all the Europe so i can finally embed just 95 glyphs, and use all the fonts and i want while all the accents, greek and cyrillic alphabets get fucked off as well as Helvetica World?
Thanks.