I didn’t receive a phone call today regarding a new job, which was a bit disheartening. I was thinking I might be getting an interview today, but that doesn’t mean that I am about to lose all hope (just approximately 50% of it.. haha). So now, I focus on my current client that needs me to come up with another mock for him, which I hadn’t seen coming. It’s sort of a difficult thing, because summoning creativity isn’t something that you can just do at the flick of a switch, but I’m in an industry where that’s exactly what you have to do.
I suppose this is something that everyone who has to do commercial art has to deal with, but I spent hours today trying to come up with something that I would be happy with. Sure I could’ve half-assed it, but that’s not my style. If you’re going to do something, give it your best - pretty much my mantra. So I’d come up with a design, decide it was shit, and then scrap it and start over. Now, at 1 am, I think I have the header of the new design down (the header is the top part of a site by the way– on this site it would be the random pictures of me with Vinoj.com written). Now I need to worry about navigation and column layout. I don’t know if I work in a way that’s out of the norm of most designers, but it’s just the way that I’ve worked for years.
I also decided to send thank you notes to the people that interviewed me, because…. well… I think it’s good manners. And good manners are always something that we can all add a bit more of in our lives.
Take care.