It is so unbelievably hard to work for people who don't know good design if it bit them on their taint. I took this job for ease of life, not as a portfolio builder. I knew that I would be doing shit design for a shit corporation when I took the job. I knew I would be giving up pride for a quicker commute and very reasonable pay but did not know that in return for that, I would be selling my soul so much. I have two pieces TOPS that I produced in the past 14 months that I am willing to bring to an interview. And that is being nice.

Case in point... they wanted a logo for an internal AOL team. My direction? This is word for word... "make it racey!"

So I produced this as an option before I took friday off last week. It may not be the best logo in the world but I believe it works for the client:



I came back today and saw the printout on my traffic girl's desk.
me: Did they like the logo?
her: We are giving it to the other designer.
me: Why?
her: We want to see it with photoshop filters and stuff and we know how you hate using photoshop filters.
me: Wait, hold on. You shitcanned my logo just because it didn't have filters applied to it and didn't even give me a chance to use filters?
her: yes.
me: That's the only reason you don't like it? Because it looks flat and doesn't have cheesy bevels on it? I would assume, you could at least tell me that the initial design is good or bad before you see it with filters applied to it right?
her: I guess. It looks flat and thats it.
me: So you weren't even going to tell me that it needed work and you were shit canning it?
her: Go talk to the boss dude.
me: Forget it, I don't care any more.


God damnit, I need a new job.