about Crowd-Sourcing Design Sites
Posted on | August 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Site that this is a reply to:
http://laurelsdesigndeli.blogspot.com/2011/08/crowdsourcing-in-my-face.html
Bravo! I am a graphic artist and adjunct at my local university, and this subject has reared its heinous head several times lately in both arenas.
I began teaching because I was tired of having to justify my every penny to many of the small businesses I work for out here in Ohio. Several of the encounters went about like this:
“Li, I need to cut costs again, so I can’t use you for my logo, I found this great site…”
Later…
“Li, could you help me with this logo I got, its not looking good in black and white” (I quote my LOW hourly rate) “OMG! that’s way too expensive for me, I will do it myself!”
Later…
“LI, I did something HORRIBLE to that logo!!!! I just don’t know what to do! And now my website is all *&^*ed-up OMG Please help” (This is an actual quote from an email…)
Later
(After I agree to fix it) “Ok, but don’t take too long”
Me: “Arghhhh!”
Design is changing and the easy availability of graphics programs has created the illusion that “anyone with a computer” can do what we do. Not so, but if you have any whinny clients holding this notion, feel free to send them to my Adobe Illustrator 101 class in Lovely Akron, Ohio! Several of my Whiners have become devoted clients after a semester in the trenches. (and then there are the cases where their whining was the delightful harbinger of a change… one is now at KSU doing her design degree after a midlife reinvention of self, and another is well on his way to finishing his Computer Animation degree at Full Sail!)
Again Thanks for your inspiring post!
Li
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