For Your Information... * VENT POST *

If, in the future, any of you have the privilege of working with a designer of any kind, I want you to understand something. Creative people are a dime a dozen. Everyone thinks they have great ideas, and some of you probably do.... A designer is MORE than just a creative person. We have the unique ability to take the ideas and CREATE things with them. Web pages, marketing, ads, practically everything you see around you. Everything you look at, down to the print on your t-shirt or the print on your toilet paper...somewhere a designer made that.

When you work with a designer, remember that in order to make your product (be it website, business card or interior decor) we employ a design aesthetic that is honed throughout years of experience. We don't make a million choices a day based on a whim... We make those choices base on carefully crafted skills that are unique to our job. It may not be the Mona Lisa, and it may not be the Sistine Chapel, but it is art nevertheless, and should be acknowledged as such.

Too put it plainly, I am TIRED of having my hours of work critiqued by pretentious boobs with "creative" criticisms such as, "I don't get it..." and "Why don't we add a BIG BOW, that would really be something...." or back in my Air Force days, " I think what this poster needs is a big American Flag and an Eagle!". Let the artists do what they do best! And if you REALLY don't like something... try to be specific. And above all, be sensitive. We're not machines that churn out endless choices for you to insult at random. There are some crappy designers our there who warrant insult, but most of us are just trying to create something beautiful... that hasn't already been seen a million times. Let us make you look good, stop trying to BE the designer. Tell us what you want, and let us do our job.

* VENT FINISHED *