Architects
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- raf0
A friend of mine, an architect, "makes websites" occasionally on the side. He started with wanting to know he could make a website and then he got some clients for that.
He uses Flash only and things like 3D rendered animations for navigation.
- airey0
good luck.
they are fucking nightmares. many seem to believe that they are masters of the entire artistic and design realms.
- Miesfan0
Think that Peter Zumthor and Herzog&deMeuron haven't it...
- Miesfan0
^ Can you imagine this the world of design?!!!!!
- formed0
As an architect that owns a graphic/web/3D business...
um, to put some apparent misnomers to rest:
I am designing some floor plans for a personal project right now (Autocad is open on this computer)...so not sure where you got the idea 'they don't call them plans' ideaArchitect's hire engineers, so any idea that we/they do any of the actual mathematical calculations is erroneous. Anyone telling you otherwise, with a few exceptions, is full of bs.
I'll skip all the insults, as I have seen far more incompetent people in the graphic world than in the architecture world (architect's, generally speaking, have a pretty grueling school, mine was 7 years for undergrad and grad, graphics are far, far less intensive - neither is better than another, of course)
That said, I'll acknowledge that they can be overly controlling and nit picking details (we work with tons, mostly for 3D, but also for some graphics/web).
You just need to make it clear, in a pleasant way, why you are a graphic/web pro and offer respect for their creative expertise. Some, sadly, think they can design anything and that couldn't be farther from the truth, but you run into this everywhere (like joe shmoe being able to design a house). Oh, and most architect's, like most graphics and most creative professionals, do suck ;-)
Ideas:
www.snoarc.no (great site, great architect's, I wanna say Bleed did their graphics/web)
http://siteinspire.net/showcase/…
I'll try to dig some up later.
- Exactly my point last page stated better.TheBlueOne
- I thought they were called drawings - as plans are for "builders"?meffid
- Great input, thanks.meffid
- 'plans' are 'plans', 'elevations' are 'elevations', 'drawings' would be all the above (and more)formed
- jaytuom0
They're not as bad as all that. I've dealt with a few (never websites though) and in my experience they do have trouble relinquishing control, but they're not unreasonable. You just need to keep reminding them why they hired you and didn't do it themselves.