Design is a Job, Mike Monteiro | Reading
Here, I am really interested in Choosing the Right Clients (Chapter 3). There is something that comes to my mind at the first time: work under your possibilities. I mean, for example, if I am being paid for creating a poster for one night in a night club, I should have into consideration: the time I will invest on it, the material and the knowledge that I have to do it, everything depending on what they are willing to pay. If they do not pay too much, I should not invest too much time on it. About the knowledge, it is not the same that someone who has done a degree related to design doing that poster than other that not. All these studies should be rewarded because they are going to be reflected on the work.
What is a big deal, and maybe it does not seem, is the client attitude, someone convinced about what he/she want. That conviction will be on you too and so on the final result. Moreover, it is easier to lead the project if you know exactly what they want. From experience, I could say that the most difficult part of some jobs is to find out that in fact, the client is not so sure about what he/she want, the point in which he/she wants everything comes to his/her mind.
Better together. A section inside Chapter 10: Working with others.
To work with other designers could be hard, but as always in a team. Each person has different backgrounds, however, that is the cool thing. As it is said, the way you are going to grow up is next to someone that challenges your point of view. Consequently, you are exploring together for more options to at the end find out the best one, not just think about one solution and remain with it.
The last course, in Valencia, people from the whole class participated in a rewarded contest for a company. I worked with a friend of mine doing our best job, we did not even think about the prize, we just did our best. During the process, we had up and downs in our design. We knew each other so, we could trust in our skills and do not care about challenging ourselves, trying to find a solution to satisfy both of us. We were just doing what was required to, with hard moments during the path in which maybe something did not fit and we just wanted to discard it, but then come back to it. In the end, we did not even know what exactly were the other groups doing, but we felt really proud about our work together and so our teachers.
We could not believe it when they said we won the prize, our design was the most acetate one! Without doubt, one of the most satisfactory moments (if not the most) in my early designer career. I would say that the excitement of the first important design achievement is going to last forever. In that point, we also felt really proud about knowing that we were worth it to be involved in the designing world.
