quick design

September 22, 2007

yesterday i’ve been asked to make a design for hiv program of care bangladesh. i have to design a poster which will consist a summary about the whole project activities and goals. this poster is going to be displayed on a conference in bankok. i had to submit the design within 9pm of today… that means i’ve got 24 hours for building the design. well, its pretty enough time. but somehow it became a huge pressure for me. last night i couldn’t sleep well… i just keep on thinking… what i’ll do? normally when i get a job in my office, i don’t need too much time to build it. i could think then in a professional way. but in my freelance works, it make me think too much… i expend too much time for thinking. but the results don’t show too many differences… true is that my freelance works are weaker than my regular office’s work. today after submitting the design, they sent me a quick feedback. they liked the design with few simple modifications. its good in a way… but i am not happy. its yet doesn’t look a good work to me…

we designers always have to keep this pain… we always can’t do what we like to do. a ‘good’ designer knows client is always right. clients mean everything… whatever the design is if the client say ‘ok’… its perfect. if client say ‘no’, then it has no use… no matter how good others are saying it… the designer only can show the screen shot on his portfolio…