General Questions
Why are artists so temperamental?
How does one combat burnout?
How do you get around “creative block”?
How do you tactfully work with people that have little taste?
Why can’t some designers see that AI is the design program pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth?
Cobaidh said:Why are artists so temperamental?
Some are, if their decisions are driven by emotion more often than logic. Also, some artists tend to be the types that resent everything capitalism stands for. When they come to the realization that earning income as an production artist often revolves around the promotion of capitalistic endeavors, it conflicts with their internal values.
Cobaidh said:How does one combat burnout?
Burnout only means the person isn't enjoying what they're doing anymore.
Cobaidh said:How do you get around “creative block”?
I've not had this problem, but getting the content loosely onto the page and developing an initial color scheme helps.
Cobaidh said:How do you tactfully work with people that have little taste?
I show them what I've done. Case closed. :-D Then I charge about 60.00 hr, and get 100% of the money in advance for design time and the manufacturing run. Those are my non-negotiable terms, and I have all the work I want. One job last month was for more than 5,000.00. I'm meeting them again this week for an order double that size.
Cobaidh said:Why can’t some designers see that AI is the design program pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth?
The real problem isn't Ilustrator. It's Photoshop. Adobe users rarely use Illus IMO, since they don't like it or even understand it's purpose.
Very polite considering you are a team leader of Foster's re-education camp, Jeff.
PS: I'm going to make a blog post from this for the Macafiled Uni group that keep try to convert me!
Yani said:Very polite considering you are a team leader of Foster's re-education camp, Jeff.
hi Y, Not 100% sure what you mean.. but that's normal, so everything's good. LOL
BTW, someone in CNEWS groups brought up the issues with customer supplied artwork.
A great opportunity to ramble....
We used to ask for EPS's at the shops, now I ask them to send "whatever files they can find for their logo, in numerous formats if avail". With hi speed, it's no biggie to get a 1-3 MB email full of everything they have. Then I pick through it. The reason I request it..... more and more, the sales staff were telling clients, just send EPS's, and you'll save on artwork fees. But, inside those EPS's were bitmaps, so... back to square one. :-P EPS's and PDF's can support vector logos as we know, but more and more I see people just jam bitmaps of their logos into them. Here's a serious problem in the industry: 1. Many, many "Artists" don't know the difference between vector shapes and bitmaps. 2. Some artists seem to have short attention spans, and find the precise nature of vector workmanship too tedious - it's not "instantly impressive" enough. 3. vector logos seem "too boring" for some artists who want to pile on every effect possible in order to appear as Elite Pixel Masters. The communication needs of the client are secondary. The root of the problem: Photoshop IMO. It's widely misused as a program to create corporate identities. Even many Adobe users themselves admit they don't understand - or like - working in IIlustrator. When it comes time to manufacture the complex "masterpiece logo", that's where the original artists learn (hopefully) that their approach was flawed. The unwavering reality of physics, materials, and the limitations of output equipment humble these artists fast... If a logo can't: 1. be embroidered 2. go through a fax machine clearly 3. be lasered or pad printed onto the side of a pen It simply sucks and will need to be redesigned so that it will. :-D For branding, it's "simple to be complex, and complex to be simple".
Boat cruise = re-education camp
I trained as a camera operator, scanner operator and photographer... and now back at Uni doing Net Studies (and I'm only 34yo ;)
We had, layout artists, finished artists, illustrators, photographers, copywriters, typesetters, camera operators, film planners, plate makers, stereo-makers and printers.
Now we have computer users and printers
Previously everyone was trained in a specific discipline now the expectation is you know everything.
Is it any wonder that we have issues with training? It's been working OK here for a while because there were so many people with a basic skills set that understood the issue -- output and more recently technology.
Training is a big issue and training that demonstrates 'you can't know everything but you can know where to look for answers'.
"How do I do this?" Press F1
"That didn't help." Google
"Still don't understand." OK I'll help you.
I've found in work environments I have to resist answering questions or my job becomes answering questions and nothing else gets done.
The Jobs here ultimately end up being prepared for large format digital printing and cnc routers. That is why it is important to have vector based renderings and hi rez images.