With my extension of working at the consult and bank holiday monday I am working at bivouac just one day this week. Today I worked on a postcard for a company called cyclorama. I learnt today the difficulties of clients and how difficult it is to design and use skills that you are taught when a client have a very specific idea. The client had a very drawn out idea and knew exactly what she wanted therefore I had to make the design come alive. The design is not usually something that I would do and not something that my self and Kate agreed with although we had to come to terms that this was what the client wanted. THe postcard served no purpose and as myself and Kate discussed it is hard to design something when you know that it is going to thrown away. Mail-shots are very common for this unless they sure a very strong purpose. This has what has come from Kate's intreats to create work for exhibitions and museums as the design borads or panels are used and there existing and used by loads of people and most important appreciated. Where as thousands of flyers or poorly designed mail-shots are so oftenly found lying in the bin. This is soal destroying as a designer and is something that I would not like to get into. Although some amy say that it pays the bills I would like to not design pizza flyers or work that is ignored or not appreciated. This made me consider the importamce of my finla year and my statement of intent.
My self and Kate had ideas for other postcard designs that somebody would like to receive or keep. Showing one interesting bike and collecting the different bikes would have been more interesting than looking at the logo. This would almost make them collectable yet to to do a multiple print run would have cost more in which this was not within the budget.
