Every month we will write one article on “What Do You Love / Hate About … ” and give you the opportunity to win one Logo Nest 01 book in every month. This month we start with the article “What Do You Love / Hate About Your job as Logo Designer”.
Share your story in the comments, tell us what you love and what you “hate” about this job, share your positive and negative experiences, tell how much enjoy to be Logo Designer and give us some tips you have for making this job better.
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I love the opportunity to challenge myself, and I hate when clients don’t know what they want.
Twitter: chiste
I love the briefing, analysis and drafting part of the process, especially listen those entrepreneurship stories of how the company was borne, the concepts and business model and thinking of a graphic representation, drafting on paper and vectorize my ideas.
I hate to crash into a difficult client with no ability to express what he wants or what he don’t wants, who can’t make a decision, and ask his girl friend for an opinion, who at the same time ask her mom for an opinion, where a cussing who nobody ask for his opinion suggest a color and typography, an everybody listen to him because he took Marketing lessons and sells Hervalife.
Twitter: dominic_87
What I love?
That is easy, You have a job that can be different every day! You are not doing the same thing twice and you never now what comes tomorrow. In addition to that, you get paid for something awesome: THINKING! Playing around with your mind, creating something new! I just love it.
On the other hand:
Sometimes I just hate my client: You want just one thing – Create something that perfectly matches the client and yourself as a designer, because you want to put your name under a design. Unfortunately there are a lot clients that are resisting to your professional thoughts and your experience and just want something THEY think is “cool and funky” … no matter if its just an unprofessional result…
You want a tip from me? Design the logo for yourself and if a client wants to change it a way you as a designer are not comfortable with, tell him you are sorry but you dont want to be connected to such a final result. And no matter how angry you are since it should be the last opportunity: Keep friendly.
Twitter: CobaltCow
I love:
Seeing the transformation my brand can make to a business. Seeing a company evolve from obscurity into a recognizable brand is awesome. Especially when you’re walking down the street and someone says ‘hey – that business looks cool’
I hate:
When your beautiful approved and finalized brand is ruined with a cheap website or tacky photography. Even worse is when the client decides to modify the logo themselves to match a specific piece.
Twitter: dominic_87
Oh, and to give you a idea of what I really like when it comes to clients
http://usedwigs.com/video-stop-sign-designed-by-committee/
Heart:
Given the opportunity + trust to develop a face for a business. Enjoy the challenge + creative process. My love of logos brought me to the field of Graphic Design.
UnHeart:
Reading clients minds. I’m blessed that many of my clients are happy to answer my logo questionnaire. A few tho’ enter the logo process unprepared.
LOVE BRAINSTORMING!
I just love it when I sit down with a pad and a pen in hand and just start doodling away. It lets my mind free to wander everywhere the brief takes me. The feeling of being able to design something and to see it in action is just superbly the best thing that happens to me.
HATE INDECISIVE AND STINGY CLIENTS!
Yep, I am sure that many of us have experienced this type of client. The one who asks for the price to be way lower than the one quoted. The one who just all of a sudden changes his mind about the direction of the project after finishing the initial designs. The one who doesn’t really know what he wants, worse, what he needs.
Though this may be a downside, I am still pleased to have worked for such clients because it gave me the opportunity to be able to grow into who I am now as a designer, a logo engineer.
Twitter: rajasandhu
Giving infinite value to something unquantifiable and beyond metrics, out of thin air.
Twitter: LukeSF
the frist thing for me is obvious – I simply LOOOOVE creating something out of nothing… That’s the most exciting thing. When you take words on the paper, or message over Skype or letters on you email and start transforming them into notions, then into symbols, then into a single concept and finally back to the emotions and feelings that your work evokes. That’s so damn great!
And the sad part:) I hate lack of creativity when I’m in a deadend. I hate when people decide for something which has nothing to do with design. And most of all I dislike that currently what I see in my mind not always can be transformed into what I deliver to a client. P.S. I’m constantly working on that, so hopefully there’ll be only positive in my designer job:)