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At least once per month I get "I am a venture capitalist with no money who has just read 4 hour work week and been made redundant and I've got a great idea for a site that mixes together facebook, youtube and linkdin. I can't pay you now but I'll give you a 10% stake in my imaginary company plus some magic beans if you do all the work for me. Don't worry though it will only take you half a day because you know how to work photoshop."
Last month I was offered permanent use of a beach villa in Rio if I would work free but with huge promised future income. I think I'll pass.
because you know how to work photoshop
Also known as [i]'Can you just Photoshop this for me'[/i]
My personal favourite was someone who took a picture of a stairway with a child safety gate at the bottom and asked me to remove it. I resisted the temptation to tell him that I didn't know the shortcut for 'Remove Child Safety Gate' in this version of Photoshop, instead suggesting he went back, actually remove the safety gate and take another photograph.
My personal favourite was someone who took a picture of a stairway with a child safety gate at the bottom and asked me to remove it. I resisted the temptation to tell him that I didn't know the shortcut for 'Remove Child Safety Gate' in this version of Photoshop, instead suggesting he went back, actually remove the safety gate and take another photograph.
I might be able to top that?
I was once asked to design an advert containing a manufacturer-supplied product shot of a pair of fancy hi-fi speakers. However I was asked if I could photoshop them so we could have the fronts AND backs on show in the same photo.
Explaining why I couldn't involved quite a long discussion about the laws of physics and the differences between 2 and 3 dimensions, and a rather detailed diagram of how one would only be able to achieve that goal by the strategic and rather absurd positioning of a mirror during the photography stage.
I've been asked to perform some ridiculous photoshoppery in my time, but breaking the laws of time and space tops the lot so far.
You could have placed a LH and a RH ad and simply flipped the picture on one of them to show the reverse of what was on the front of the picture.
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I must have read that about 100 times over the years and it still amuses me.
Must resist the temptation to read the 'Lost Cat' one as I normally start to cry through laughing so hard when reading that one.
My favourite graphic design story is the lengthy explanation about the process including idea finding and originality and arriving at the final design which was quickly followed by three or four designs that were almost identical. Can't remember where I saw it though.
Ohh get you. 😀
I still stand by my argument that I didn't copy it, I simply followed the idea to a (admittedly similar typographically) conclusion using a similar creative process other designers use. There are no really new ideas now. Wasn't it someone like Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec that said that some 130 or so years ago?
Oh designers, I feel your pain. "How can you possibly justify charging that much for one day's work?!" (I'm a wedding photographer).
However I was asked if I could photoshop them so we could have the fronts AND backs on show in the same photo.
Couldn't they have just popped a mirror behind the speakers?
...or just photoshopped one in?
Ohh get you
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There are no really new ideas now.
I'm not so sure about this though.
Just looked at the web site and it seems you already have a winner. Like the childlike scribble design.
I still stand by my argument that I didn't copy it, I simply followed the idea to a (admittedly similar typographically) conclusion using a similar creative process other designers use. There are no really new ideas now.
What a cop-out. IMO that was a proper lazy piece of 'design', and singularly unremarkable. That you managed to convince someone to actually pay good money for it is the real talent.
Wasn't it someone like Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec that said that some 130 or so years ago?
Ecclesiastes said something simliar some two thousand years previously....
Well that's your opinion Elf and you are welcome to have it. My client was very happy with the results (and thoroughly enjoyed being involved in the creative process along the way) as was I with the result so I remain happy and unconcerned with your opinion on the matter.
Enough already!
I am only jesting.
But I tell you what - it is a good job he lives 250 miles from me and my arsenal of borderline illegal assault rifles is safely locked away.
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I like the TJ reference through the image - very subtle. 🙂
What design are you guys talking about anyways? 😕
A logo I did for a client which then (unfortunately for me) then turned out to have some very similar versions floating around the interweb.
What design are you guys talking about anyways?
I think this was it...
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I am waiting for the spoof jersey designs, come on people.
Apologies for bringing it up again... 😳
And the typography was similar to this one (although the graphical execution of the image above is entirely different).
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And this
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You should see some of Effin's creations...
Not bothered DS - as people always display on here, they think what they want just as I do.
I have no feeling of guilt as I know I went through a creative process to get to where I did and I didn't just copy another logo (although I accept there are similarities but that is inevitable.
He bloody well did kern it. Just in case anyone asks in the future...
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mmmmmm......kern.
Oh designers, I feel your pain. "How can you possibly justify charging that much for one day's work?!" (I'm a wedding photographer).
That's coz you photographer types really take the piss - grand a day at least* 😉
*I'm just a paultry designer
No kerning, shame on you.
I bloody well did kern it you cheeky monkey.
Why is the o almost touching the a then?
I am waiting for the spoof jersey designs, come on people.
See page 1 for my submission.
You should see some of Effin's creations...
Go on. You know you want to...
coff
I wasn't going to submit any more designs, but this one just came to me in a jolt of inspiration. It was like I had been handed the design by God Almighty himself.
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©[s]mastiles_fanylion[/s] [s]The Internet [/s]Me
AWESOME.
Do you think you could just run us through the design process too. How you arrived at the design, how it fits in with the corporate image of LavaTrax, whether the client agrees, etc.
It adds value.
Jamie wins the chance to spend about £500 on his first prize
Taking inspiration from Jimmers
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*frozen in a speechless paralysis of creative envy*
I dun it on my iPhone too. Photoshop me arse. (that's not an instruction).
Photoshop me arse.
*Fires up Photoshop...*
(that's not an instruction).
...dammit.
*closes Photoshop*