Here, have something nice.

Goldblum lorem ipsum generator.

Thought i would ask on here as I know some of you are self employed. 

Just doing the dreaded tax return - I should really get someone else to do these. For a project I did last year, I got some web work but was too busy to do it all myself, so got my web mate to do it, got paid and passed on his chunk for doing the work.

On the tax return, am I right in thinking I declare the amount paid by the client and then the amount paid to my mate as expenses?

(Figured this belonged in here too:)

Crikey, chaps and chapettes, the new Empire 'Captain Marvel' subscriber cover is a bit tasty.

Ah, that explains it. New AD landing with a whallop.

Subscriber only though, so it won't be appearing on the stands.

Fucksake.
Stuck with one of those clients that endlessly tweaks shit. I will bill them for all of it but by fuck am I fed up of changing the same thing over and over again.
It's not like I'm an artworker or produce anything permanent.
They are just visuals for a popup event. Hyper accuracy really isn't that important.

Told them I could do tweaks this evening and they have sent a phonebook of amends through. Told them it will have to wait until I am free on Wednesday. I've already worked over the weekend for them.

Yeah I forgot to put my mind reading hat on.
It's my fault really.

They've suggested sending a priority list of amends but frankly I'm fed up with it now.

It's the type of shitty stuff that if there wasn't a deadline would go on until the end of time.

Already upped my day rate for them last time, didnt ask, they didnt even notice.
Its a cool company with interesting projects but its all pitch work, I hate pitch work because it's always tight deadlines and a sense that everyone is shitting themselves.

Anyhoo.
I've negotiated the work down to something manageable at least.

Just had this conversation.

Client: "I don't like that blue"
Me: "It's your secondary corporate colour, from your brand guidelines"
Client: "I don't like it, use another colour"
Me: "The only other colour in your brand is the yellow – which we've already used. If we make what's blue into yellow, then everything will be yellow and there won't be any contrast. We need to use the secondary brand colour in this instance..."
Client: "I don't think you're solution-focussed enough. Just make it work."

They are going to be getting a rather large invoice.

I’d bet all the money. Because as soon as the brand team sees it they’ll throw a wobbler. Needless to say I’m now speaking to the brand guardian to try and get it sorted at their end...

Hahaha, first thing I do when I walk into a firm is ask for branding guidelines document. I was pretty tickled though when at Moss that the colours would be given in RGB, CMYK, and ?ColSatHue? but anyway, so many of the colours turned out to be completely different when viewed on something like Palleton. Not being a designer, is that an ok website to use for a colour wheel and to grab colours from values?? Or would you guys recommend somewhere better?

Don’t trust any website to convert colours for you. Ever.

Like panty says, use the Photoshop colour picker for a decent machine approximation. But if you want to do it properly, you need a set of physical colour books to hand so that you can make comparisons by eye. Your vision is better than any computer algorithm, whatever the app developers try and tell you.

Not with my eyes.
Good job rgb values will do in my game.