Work

So, I just got married. I have one child and another on the way. I have been trying to do the whole work at home thing because I’m a graphic designer, it hasn’t been going the greatest. In fact, I haven’t gotten a single job. I think I’m just not looking in the right places. 

Anyway, Last night I was able to find a website that there are tuns of projects on the site, and even more people who are a part of the site. All these designers on one site.. We have to compete against each other and try to get the contracts that we want to get. In order to do that, we have to design what the client wants, even though all we have to go by is written type of what the client thinks that they want. Most of the clients that need designs do not give specs as to what fonts they want used or the colors. The designers have to guess. What fun!  

I had a graphic design teacher in collage who was the same way on purpose. He wanted to prepare the students for clients who think they know what they want, but when they see designs, they really do not want that at all, and change everything on the designer. 

Right now, I’m working on a logo for a clothing company who wants to be uplifting and targeted towards women between the ages of 25-40.  The logo is also for athletic wear.  There are so many different designs on the site, it’s hard to try and be different when you have an idea and you look through the work that is posted… lone behold, there’s a design that looks similar to the one you have. Therefore you have to change your design a bit to be different. Not completely, but enough to stand out against the other person.

Now, I would like some constructive criticism on any of the logos on this file that you would like to give, but please do. There are 4 days left and the contract is set to end on the 12th of may. 

Let me know!