Hi,
I work as part of a team of designers for an organisation. We create a lot of design work/logos etc internally. But what frustrates us is when we give advice and artwork on a certain design or style, a lot of staff ignore us, and feel the need to criticise - telling us their ideas are better than our advice. I don't mean in a nasty way, they just see their projects as 'their baby's' and have a vision of how something should look. Yet when we follow branding guidelines but with a clever twist so our design 'works' really well - they just don't get it!
You must know what i mean.... someone sends you a poor logo attempt in Word, so we adapt it into a great design in Illustrator, targeting its audience, yet they look at it and think it's OK to tell us to change this, change that. Then a stand-off ensues when we stand up for what we've done. Why don't people realise WE ARE THE EXPERTS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN - that's what the company employed us for - but we always seem to be the ones told to stand down - or to 'meet them halfway'. I'm all for constructive criticism, but we never tell others in the company how to do their jobs - so why should we be told how to do ours!
Sorry for the outrage - but it does frustrate us as designers! We HAVE talked to hierarchy here about the problem but they don;t understand our problem either - and just want to keep company harmony... ie 'meet them halfway'.
Btw - we are good designers with many years experience - so we know exactly how a project should be handled from a design pov.
Has anyone else experienced this and can offer advice! thanks
I work as part of a team of designers for an organisation. We create a lot of design work/logos etc internally. But what frustrates us is when we give advice and artwork on a certain design or style, a lot of staff ignore us, and feel the need to criticise - telling us their ideas are better than our advice. I don't mean in a nasty way, they just see their projects as 'their baby's' and have a vision of how something should look. Yet when we follow branding guidelines but with a clever twist so our design 'works' really well - they just don't get it!
You must know what i mean.... someone sends you a poor logo attempt in Word, so we adapt it into a great design in Illustrator, targeting its audience, yet they look at it and think it's OK to tell us to change this, change that. Then a stand-off ensues when we stand up for what we've done. Why don't people realise WE ARE THE EXPERTS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN - that's what the company employed us for - but we always seem to be the ones told to stand down - or to 'meet them halfway'. I'm all for constructive criticism, but we never tell others in the company how to do their jobs - so why should we be told how to do ours!
Sorry for the outrage - but it does frustrate us as designers! We HAVE talked to hierarchy here about the problem but they don;t understand our problem either - and just want to keep company harmony... ie 'meet them halfway'.
Btw - we are good designers with many years experience - so we know exactly how a project should be handled from a design pov.
Has anyone else experienced this and can offer advice! thanks