AJ wrote:

I don't believe this. One of our clients - a high-end fashion retailer - has just put an animated GIF of spinning, shiny text on their website to promote a sale. They then asked me to update something so the main image on the home page can also be one. I've yet to see what that is, but I'm waiting with bated breath.

Missed this, somehow. An animated GIF of "spinning, shiny text"? Really? Have I fallen through a time-fracture and landed in 1998?

Gobsmacked. Amazed anyone is still doing things like that.

In other news, today I will mostly be designing icons for a website. Mmmm, icons.

I love the odd mix of FUTURE and PAST you get when dealing with the fashion industry.

So on the button with some bits of tech and so far behind with others.

I spent some time with a diamond dealer today on my lunch break. Her website looks like a reject from Geocities in the days when Mosaic was your browser of choice. It actually doesn’t work at all on mobile – you literally can’t use the links. Yet she does most of her big-money business entirely from her mobile phone, Snapchatting videos of six and seven figure bits of jewellery to customers on the other side of the world before they make a choice and transfer money direct to her bank account.

Amazing.

Can't sell in volume over social media, though. It's fine for expensive stuff, like the jewelry mentioned, but you don't want to be paying operators to sit there handling sales of DVDs.

Anyhow.
I have been doing some modeling partly for the joy of it, partly to build something of a Turbosquid library of stock models.
Here is a baby walker.

Cheers, and congrats on the engagement.
There can be but most wont make anything.
I have had a shit Bacardi bottle on there for years which someone buys once every 6 months.

Strategy seems to be to be the go to person for a particular thing and that thing have a market. Some people will do beer bottles, others ikea furniture etc.
The gap I noticed is in good quality toys and other kids stuff that would populate arch viz for playrooms, schools etc. So focusing on that. There are tons of lego men and super soakers but little an architect would want to put in a high end visual.

A lot of people who complain that there isn't money to be made either aren't good enough or expect a decent salary out if it from the off. Or they over price their models.

Hah- speaking of turbosquid work found a load of models they'd commissioned from a contractor on there. Paid them really well for the job, but it turns out they were selling assets they'd paid them to design for datacentres for the past three years. Cease and desist communications go unanswered, as do attempted shaky fists at turbo squid. I guess it helps if you're in China.

Just watching Restoration Man some insurance broker and his chintzy wife have bought an absolutely stunning art deco water tower.

Every idea they have is retarded. They want to pull out the original staircase and lift, then build the lift on the outside.
They have described their vision as deco outside, footballers wife inside.

People like this shouldn't be allowed nice things.

Its good to share. Just put a few more bits up on my Behance.
Would love to see some other Badger work.

https://www.behance.net/BenLathwell

Some nice work there Ben. Loving the Urban Mantra packaging!

I have been horribly neglectful of Behance. Signed up to The Dots, but not sure all these portfolio sites give any real benefits.

I do think we designers fall into the trap of designing primarily for one another sometimes. Behance, Dribbble et al certainly haven't helped to cure that tendency.

Step one: Write your own brief.

Step two: Send brief to client for approval before starting work.

Step three: Shit! Only got one day left to design it now!

I'll share some bits later as I recently updated the showreel

@Dyno
Cheers mate.
I use cinema and Max these days, still prefer Max though.

@Jaco
Bet you end up redoing the project

Jaco wrote:

@pop I've gone the "I'm assuming creative freedom on this or it ain't getting done" route. Client has agreed. Still got to create, proof, amend and get print-ready what looks to be a 48pp or 52pp booklet in two days. Eek!

Get off the forum and do some work then, slacker.