Before you read any further, answer this simple question.
As a designer, who do you design your work for? Your client, your company, your customers or for yourself?
I am sure different designers will have different answers. And this goes out for other professions too, e.g writing, teaching, playing music and so on.
The key thing each one of us should remember is that we should deliver according to the needs of the audience, and not that of a particular person or organization. We should deliver our service to the people who would use the service and not to the company who is buying your product or labour.
I might sound absurd but this is the truth.
Is it that clients don’t understand business or is it they don’t understand creatives? Why is it creatives around the globe all have exactly the same complaints and horror stories about clients from hell?
It’s not just ridiculously silly comments and requests, which make for the amusing stories we share over drinks at the pub or posts on the internet – it’s the actions that block creativity or the ability to make a living.
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Here’s the best bit. You have your new camcorder and you can’t wait to unpack the contents of the box and get started. It’s quite natural that you should wish to insert a blank tape or disk and hit the record button without hesitation.
Thanks to the digital video revolution, there’s never been a better time to start shooting, editing and sharing your video movies with your family, friends and colleagues.
Before you reach the stage where you can make your first video recordings, you need to decide what medium your recordings will use. For years, tape cassettes have been the only viable video recording medium, but they now face serious challengers in the form of DVD and solid state media cards as the format of choice for many newcomers.
As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It's kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge.
In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.
This article is not really a usual site. Conventionally we have been told that our dear Mr. Client is the best thing that has ever happened to us. And we must do any and everything with in our reach to make certain that the client remains gleeful and satisfied with our services. More often than not, it is the client who walks out on us, the other wise hard working and dedicated professionals, who he may term are “unprofessional and incompetent” but here in the write up we will shed some light on the other side of the story.
The relationship between a client and the service providers is a crucial one and quite a tipsy curvy one in that regard. If the journey goes out of track, it is not always the fault of the professionals. In fact clients plays an active role in the entire relationship.