Re: FLASH: Site Check: (Can you spare a moment?)

[Paul]

Title: Re: FLASH: Site Check: (Can you spare a moment?)

A designer's job is to satisfy his or her client at the end of the day. If you get kicks out of the work you do on the way then that's good. But there's very little room for true artists in many 'creative' jobs.

Anyway, even artists can be inspired. Good design should be inspirational because, at the end of the day, the client is looking for a certain effect. The fact that something's uniquely poor has little consolation.

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From: "alex" <alexiguanastudios [dot] com>
To: flasherchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: Site Check: (Can you spare a moment?)
Date: Wed, Oct 27, 1999, 11:23 pm

Flattery maybe, but what about professionalism and originality, imitation doesn't necessarily cover that.  Shouldn't there be some level of artistic pride when we stand up to clients who disrespect designers and artists by just asking them to create a reproduction of someone else's work?  Where is the creative side of this list that addresses new flash designs and uses?
a.

>Well they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

> client probably said
> "make mine look like theirs"

>Yes, there is that.
>Client takes the fall, artist off the hook.

Brian wrote:

> > Does anyone think that this site looks awfully similar to
> > http://www.lundstromarch.com (SSOD July, 1998)?
> >
> > Just wondering.
> > a.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey Flashers,
> > >
> > > Could I get some constructive criticism or a pat on
> > > the back for the site below:
> > >
> > > Client: Monighan + Associates Architects
> > > http://www.monighan.com/dynamic/

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