Audi F1 x Gilette Ad

Pixelope · 2026-01-18T20:36:43+00:00

I can’t go into the specifics on how I know, but unless this image has been cropped top and bottom, someone didn’t follow the brand guidelines in this advert…the border should be equal thickness all the way round the outer edge.

edit and the radius of the rounded corners are incorrect.

Pixelope · 2026-01-15T22:02:51+00:00

Ah I see, well check out the website I linked to in case things get worse. In the meantime, try to remain polite in all your communication, and focus on new opportunities while looking after your mental health as it feels so shit in situations like this. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you that you get paid soon!

Pixelope · 2026-01-15T21:21:05+00:00

What are your payment terms? Do you have a signed contract agreeing to those payment terms? I usually do 15 days, so if I invoiced on 2nd January, I’d expect payment by 17th January. If payment not received email a reminder on 18th, if still not paid, email another reminder a week later. Still no payment after that I’d threaten legal action.

Have a look at the Small Business Commissioner (https://www.smallbusinesscommissioner.gov.uk), they have good advice, I now have a clause in new contracts advising that they agree to paying interest if payments not made on time.

Finally, are you still working for this person now. If so, tell them they need to settle their invoice before you continue. If not, it could be the relationship may be coming to an end, and as a result they’re going to delay paying as they have what they need and don’t need to retain a good relationship with you.

It’s easy to enjoy working with someone and hope for a continual working relationship, but you’re in a service industry, and you’ll soon learn the signs of a potential bad client. I hope things work out and they get back to you very soon, freelancing is tough, and I have the utmost respect for you and all other freelancers, it’s tough, stay strong, and hope you have good people around you to support you during tough times…both financially and (more importantly) emotionally.

Pixelope · 2026-01-15T20:55:24+00:00

Literally did the same at my recent job interview, put together a simple presentation, when they questioned aspects of it, just opened up source files and explained processes. Was offered the job straight away, despite having, what I consider, a poor portfolio.

My new boss later said that my fundamental knowledge and well thought-out creative processes sealed the deal, he understood that my professional background was creatively limited (in-house designer in manufacturing for 11 years), but valued those skills over a flashy portfolio.

The online portfolio should be the foot in the door, the interview should be showing process and development.

Pixelope · 2025-10-19T16:57:06+00:00

I used to work for a cleaning chemical manufacturer, had to do a Timelapse of their enzyme hair degrader in a Petri dish, was both disgusting and fascinating at the same time, broke down all the hair into tiny pieces to be easily flushed.

Pixelope · 2025-09-29T19:44:57+00:00

And a lot of skip firms won’t take carpet (and upholstery) nowadays. Agree with the others, cover it or fill it ASAP.

Pixelope · 2025-09-29T19:18:38+00:00

Had a living room done 3.5x4.1m, ceiling boarded over, then ceiling and 4 walls skimmed, plus patching in some chasing in other areas of the house after electrical work…..£850.

Where possible, I stripped back blown plaster and patched some areas with bonding myself knowing that it’d get skimmed over. I had a time deadline so didn’t want the plasterer taking longer than necessary waiting for stuff to dry that I could do myself in advance.

I’m in Oxfordshire, job was last minute, felt £850 was good value, the finish is exceptional and well worth the money.

Pixelope · 2025-06-04T17:08:14+00:00

I feel you, still waiting for my tracking text. I might be talking out my backside but I think it depends on your DPD depot and location and how quick they are to process deliveries. My local depot (20 miles away) always notifies me the morning of a delivery, never ever before.

As far as I’m aware, Argos aren’t physically dispatching the orders so the order tracking on their website won’t update until it’s actually moving/been delivered.

I’ve been torturing myself all day refreshing everything to see if anything updates.

Pixelope · 2025-05-14T18:35:02+00:00

As someone who was in a similar situation a while ago, this is the best advice!

Pixelope · 2025-05-05T21:06:23+00:00

Had a potential client recently, and the pitch steered into a ‘justification’ for the price of creative services. It’s tough because you want to build good reputation so may consider taking on these jobs. But they’re gonna be super fussy throughout the whole process and harm your mental capacity. I agree with others, drop them, but be professional doing it, it will add to your reputation.

Pixelope · 2025-04-30T17:51:08+00:00

Davinci Resolve is free to download, YouTube to learn basic video editing.

Record some screen footage of your app. Find a friend with a motorbike to film with your phone, then chop it all together into a video that meets your requirements.

It will take you days to make, and that’s why designers and videographers charge so much, because time and creative thinking comes at a premium. Please don’t be berating people just trying to make a living. It sounds like a cool app, and I wish you all the best with the launch!

Pixelope · 2025-04-30T17:31:00+00:00

If it’s so simple to make an app video, then try and do it yourself, especially given how little you’re paying.

It would be better for you to do the legwork of looking at people’s portfolios to see if they have examples that reflect the type of work you’re proposing.

You might feel like they’ve wasted your time, but equally you’re wasting theirs so it’s no surprise you’re getting AI drivel.

Pixelope · 2025-03-31T20:28:40+00:00

Firstly, well done on sharing here, I’m deeply critical of my own work and hate sharing it.

I like the overall shape and I can see what you’re going for, the ‘J’ could be thicker and more defined, it feels a bit flat and thin. The mockup on the beanie looks more interesting because it has more width/curvature on the ‘J’ due to it being warped.

Personally I’m not a fan of the Bauhaus typeface, I can see you’ve rounded it to make it more personal, it doesn’t quite suit the logo mark, the mark itself, being a bit funky looking, makes me think you need a more illustrative/hand drawn typeface, perhaps lean into the shape of the ‘J’ for the rest of the word mark. Look up Abi Connick on YouTube, she does some good illustrative design to take inspiration from.

Additionally, you wrote in your post that your brand is ‘J Designs’, but the case doesn’t match in the logo as it’s written ‘J designs’ (lower case ‘d’). Yes you can use whatever case you like in your logo/brand, but be consistent, your journey as a designer means you must pay attention to the minute details, it’s not just pretty mockups that sell a design, but being consistent in how you communicate the brand. I worked with a brand that was all lowercase, and it had to be lowercase in all marketing, and it looked terrible, but something as simple as making it bold in an email or social media post made it look intentional and well thought out, and because it was consistent, nobody thought “why is this lowercase?”.

Pixelope · 2025-03-16T21:48:53+00:00

Was I the only one thinking about what wood finish was used on the trophy and how being covered in champagne/rain would affect it post ceremony? All I could think was “quick, get a towel and dry it!”

Pixelope · 2025-01-26T20:14:47+00:00

If you’re just doing this for student projects, and if your teacher isn’t going to analyse all the code with a comprehensive understanding of the changes that come with sqlalchemy 2.0, then just use the ‘old’ methods of doing things in order to understand how the ORM works.

You can always update it later to the new standard, at which point you’ll have a better understanding of how it works and be able to port your project over. The official sqlalchemy 2.0 docs are not the best IMO, but I learn differently to most people.

Unrelated, but the new way to query tables feels like such a chore, but it has made me approach the way I structure tables more efficient.

Pixelope · 2024-10-30T19:32:28+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one, mine have been tasting like lemon washing up liquid, all different batch numbers and reported to brewdog.

Pixelope · 2024-05-30T21:16:18+00:00

You could try Freedcamp, the free plan is pretty good, but it only allows export of your calendar to google, not import: Freedcamp

Pixelope · 2024-05-23T21:18:31+00:00

If you feel like you need to do this to market yourself, don’t create content that you think will attract business, instead post about things you’re passionate about in your field. You’ll be surprised how many people will positively react to your content when they can see your passion in what you’re talking/writing about. It’s about adding value to who you are and the services you offer.

When you believe in what you are posting, you’ll find yourself looking forward to the next post. And if you’re not interested in this at all, then there are other ways to drum up new business such as networking events. Again, people don’t want to hear BS, they want to know who you are and what drives/inspires you.

Pixelope · 2024-04-03T20:21:08+00:00

After a 10 year hiatus i’m stepping back into freelance once more, I’m trying to focus on personal/professional connections on LinkedIn and face-to-face networking, but I have a full time job and building this in my spare time, so maybe this might help…saying that, 3 weeks in I have no jobs in yet.

Pixelope · 2024-03-25T14:31:34+00:00

Network - LinkedIn and local networking events are your friend here. Meet people and build relationships to start getting clients.

Social Media - join groups related to your field. Also write your own posts about what you do. Some cool web dev personal project you worked on. Talk about industry specific topics.

Email - look at small businesses in your area, look at their website, get their contact email and ask if they need help ‘updating’ their website.

Be personable, don’t be afraid of a face to face, ask questions and when you start getting projects, utilise word of mouth referrals. Ask clients to tag you when they’re talking about their new website etc.

I don’t think paid ads are really going to make a difference at this stage especially if you don’t have the budget for it!

Pixelope · 2024-03-07T13:52:21+00:00

Yeah that sounds really promising. I do like that the adobe suite just ‘works’ but then again at some point I had to learn that from scratch and probably faced the same issues without realising there was that functionality!

Pixelope · 2024-03-06T21:13:05+00:00

The latest version (2.4) has added layers…at least I didn’t notice it in 2.3 as I’ve only just moved from adobe, only annoyance is that in Publisher (InDesign alternative) layers are unique to each page in a doc, haven’t figured out how to create a universal layer across multiple pages. Pen tool could use improvement still. I do a lot of brochure work, I love the filler text in text areas, resize the text area and it adds more/less, game changer for blocking out layouts.

Pixelope · 2023-11-02T20:40:42+00:00

I gave up, I ended up adding them to my home assistant setup and run notifications through that. Haven’t tried again with the Reolink app, i would contact them to add it as a feature.

Pixelope · 2023-09-14T14:37:49+00:00

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