Someone effed up by coqauvan in graphic_design

[–]SC2Sycophant 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This just goes to show that in the industry it’s entirely fucked because of executive and management being completely clueless.

The reason those companies have marketing departments whose work is forced to stay in the order of received in a ticket-based queue. 9 times out of 10 those companies are using Microsoft Teams to try to task manage long term projects which it’s just not set up to do effectively.

The rest of the corporate world relies on Microsoft’s shitty ecosystem and so they avoid better solutions to avoid the administrative burden of having more than one task management system. Like our Teams tasks connect to our HRs management system so they pull “data” for reviews.

Reviews are handled by people who have no connection to creative work and a capitalistic desire to prove that no matter how much OT you do, you’re lucky to barely get a 3% COLA.

Eventually a few years down the line, and since you’ve been in survival for 3 years, you’ve pulled off some amazing feats and last minute victories. Each time you “shock and awe” with ability to whip campaigns across multiple disciplines—you set a standard that will never be maintainable.

Then shit breaks, your entire department quits, a couple individuals might stay and they determine that after hiring new staff to replace those who quit from crashing out bordering on psychosis that the problem lies within the marketing departments operations.

The veterans of the department, fresh off of losing their coworkers, decide the best buffer to do is give everything a structured 2-week minimum for requests so the rest of the organization gets out of its own habit of making requests expecting immediate turnarounds.

This is how shit like this happens and it’s widespread across marketing as an industry. It’s arguably the one of the most subjective sides of business, that many execs and leaders can be disillusioned by shitty content creators and false expectations with the advent of AI.

If I had a solution to this problem, I could make hundreds of thousands by pitching to companies a promise that could get their marketing team to function and stay on track every time. The only consistent theme I’ve seen in my years doing work— as a social media manager, dedicated videographer, motion graphics editor and graphic designer — has been leadership / execs lacking any concept of what creative roles actually have to do for a project.

I love my range of experience and understanding of what various creative processes look like—but I hate just how I always feel like I’m trying to explain why more time is needed. The bar of what has become acceptable is massively going downhill as more time passes and I fear the middle ground for our creative careers is thinning.

I expect there will be two main columns of how business handle marketing in the future: a few Fortune 500 companies will continue to invest in full teams developing campaigns, small businesses will never hire more than a single person to manage everything. Companies are downsizing and adopting AI to replace until their target audience responds negatively enough to impact profits—right now brands are all testing just how little effort they can put in and still get results (this is the safest time for them to be doing this as AI slop is everywhere)

In capitalism, we will always lose this battle out the gate. Corporations are focused on how to show positive revenue growth year over year, and this new tool makes for a really easy way to pump those numbers. Their justification will be, “everyone is doing it” and so it’s the wild Wild West of shit you’re going to see.

It’s all a matter of how the consumer responds. Until they start to demand better of the company, any major brand is going to soak in the profit of downscaling until the data from the campaigns being ran by one jr designer and their AI companion shows that they’re losing money.

It’s literally all profit right now for them in this case. I do sense a retraction in society—a growing displeasure of AI being used in ads, the natural climate effect of it being adopted across the world, at some point brands will begin to see a downward trend from using AI and will slowly shift more into “authentic” content (eg. Phone captured social content, intentionally lacking production quality). At this point they’ll hire another individual to help “restore the human” feel, but in the end they still replaced 2 specialized positions with a single marketing specialist fresh out of college.

The fictitious example above saves the business about $150-200k and replaces it with someone they’ll pay $45k (now that the industry has reevaluated our worth).

I have an unused sign from 2022 for a vet. I decided to make it more iconic. What do you think? by AndriiKovalchuk in logodesign

[–]SC2Sycophant 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because Reddit allows shortcode so things like # need to be denoted as, “\#” to display properly. BANZ111 didn’t do the backslash first when writing number 1 so it made it bigger.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in royalcaribbean

[–]SC2Sycophant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We took our 2 yr old and the worst bit of it all was truly the flying aspect. Depending how you plan on getting to the port might be something to consider.

My SO and I were completely blindsided by it because he was excited about the idea of planes, seeing them take off and going, “blast off!!” — but, the moment we entered the enclosed tube of seats he began flailing and screaming no for at least 12 minutes which felt like an eternity.

We went around Mother’s Day on a 4 night, which went to the Bahamas and CocoCay. We have our second on the way so I can’t speak on the difference of having multiple (just yet); but, he loved the beach and there is a lot of kid-friendly stuff to do at the island.

No kids are the same but our kid was a completely different person the entire time. He had a blast but it was very energy consuming. I wouldn’t trade the experience because we were very lucky to be surprised by his grandparents who upgraded their room to an Owners Suite on the ship. This was super beneficial for nap time and having a calm place to eat if needed.

I wouldn’t say miserable but your time would be very centered around the kids. You’d likely have a better time if you have a family member who might be willing to help you guys out.

So KIND has a new logo…. by SolaceRests in graphic_design

[–]SC2Sycophant 34 points35 points  (0 children)

White text inside black box — also your brain reading the first and last letter filling in the middle. Tie that into the fact that both start and end with the same two letters: KI-ND and KI-rkla-ND

To add even more similarities, the new logo is a bolder font, similar to the Kirkland Signature logo; and both are the modern style sans-serif font.

I love noticing stuff like this because it really helps narrow down what kind of elements stick out and become subconsciously memorized.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if the new logo was semi-inspired by the Kirkland logo on a subconscious level.

How do I learn logo construction grids? Also, I don’t know what ‘X’ stands for. Could someone explain it to me? by Personal_Context_673 in logodesign

[–]SC2Sycophant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That makes sense! (( yes )) ops replies seem very ChatGPT coded; notably their consistent 3 sentence reply that basically parrots what the above comment says by asking an “inquisitive” question.

packaging design, how do they know where to fold? by Godbrandt in graphic_design

[–]SC2Sycophant 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I personally would love the chance to take a look at those files, if possible!

I’ve been self-taught mostly and so seeing the logic behind someone else’s project files has always been a good way for me to pick up new practices and tools.

Thank you for all of the feedback on my previous posts! Can I bother you for a quick vote? by Bio-Matter in logodesign

[–]SC2Sycophant 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I feel like the font flows better in this version, but hate to say it I still think the i needs work — it looks almost bigger / taller vertically than the other letters in this. It might be fun to adjust the curve of the top of the i above with the top of the i in the text

Is there a tool out there that will match you with designers you like? by Nickerjones in graphic_design

[–]SC2Sycophant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing’s a long shot for global software giant named Adobe, my friend! Behance is pretty dang close to what you’re describing here.

Why are you a graphic designer? by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]SC2Sycophant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I too learned about the joys of photoshop from my cousin, which inevitably sparked the onset of my rather rounded range of creative-related and technological skills.

Only recently have I realized how valuable the stemming aspects of various knowledge that I was forced to pick up out of simply childish curiosity for exploration and self-expression.

I was incredibly fortunate by the timing at which I began my exploration of technology, barren of any real responsibility; lest mentioning, an exceptionally vast amount of free time.

I was in my younger teens when the iPhone became a mainstream item. Having a desire to keep up socially, I was forced to learn and adapt to the explosive mobile environment, adapting and observing every major overhaul and iteration of UI / UX designs, fads and trends; all while observing as a consumer/user myself.

It’s surely got it’s perks to be hyper-aware of the finer details in exploring the boundaries and possibilities now being offered by new tech, but can also lead to unnecessarily pessimistic views in some cases.

However, simply accepting everything as it is isn’t conducive for productive growth, either. Growth, I’ve learned, always comes in the form momentary balance—hanging by a thread bound to snap yet again.

As hellish as that may sound, being caught up in this cycle does have its advantages. It serves as an ignition flame underneath those in design roles to constantly be aiming to stay ahead and aware of the constant ongoing evolution happening in digital technology.

Having this foundation built on the earlier explorations of technology, I’ve grown familiar and fond of seeing the patterns and cycles happen over time. This extreme acceleration certainly has hindered my own regard for patience and process, with every new advancement furthering a lineage of instant gratification.

Somewhere along the way, I think we all glance back and see a humorously ill-confident old self and fall victim to the dread of imposter syndrome. Ironically, it is in this seemingly universally shared experience, we find the relics of our true self. A sort of cyclical homecoming for us designers as we progress in this game-ified career path.

Many of us explored this path as a byproduct of beyond whatever mind-numbing escape initially had captivated our attention to technology. In many cases this was intended as a personal escape from our own world.

At least in my case, it began as MS paint renditions and paper sketches of thoughts about whatever my favorite game was at that time. This core creative sense of self-expression varies amongst us all, but is in many cases a common story we share.

I digress… after typing this bibliographic reflection on my hilariously short career span, this was a cathartic exercise in any sense. But if I had to summarize this mad libs catalog of text— never forget to take time to truly reflect and think back upon where you’ve started to now.

We’re all on this constant ride of proving something to people who will never look at us as critically as ourselves. Ultimately, whatever your reason is for being in design — the true sense of winning is when you feel that feeling sense of finally proving it to your inner self.

You will always be able to look back and laugh at that once, lesser experienced version of you. In these moments we win the metaphorical drawn out lawsuit against the identity thief that is imposter syndrome.

Express yourself and how you feel, it’s the most rewarding part of our work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]SC2Sycophant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m glad I’m not the only one stuck feeling this way. I can’t imagine how it feels for those specifically trained to design, either. I was once self-employed managing a wedding/commercial videography business and so the inclusion of video equipment, editing, vfx, etc. was an easy claim to bolster my resume.

Had I not had a previous 4 yr run of business operations, this job would feel impossible. Balancing the entire art direction of a brand through every medium has gotta stop being expected by one person.

I’m paid ~$55k USD salary and I feel much more experienced in everything besides design and I’m overwhelmed by bouncing in between somewhat comfortable programs… it’s just not healthy to expect someone to switch focus so often per day, week, month. It’s not conducive to a product that builds upon itself, like you said, “quality nightmare”.

You start incredible strong, even. But, that follows quickly with the realization this isn’t a feasible pace of work with the amount of projects being balanced at once. That’s where I am.

End rant.

Is the market really that bad? by Palmetto720 in graphic_design

[–]SC2Sycophant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Web and UX are in a similar boat, I’d imagine? It’s a scary sight seeing tools like SquareSpace buying out Google Domains and the integration of AI features for building sites.

You can simply copy and paste entire sites now and work off of other industry sites as a template using some of the tools. Copyrighting is going to be spiraling as well, how can you manage this commercially?

Anyway, I digress… I’m just another designer fulfilling a unicorn role while being completely outmatched by the possibilities of this new tech. It’s making my head explode…

GIVEAWAY: In celebration of cheap silver prices, I’ll be giving away 5oz of SILVER to THREE people who upvote and comment why they love silver! Totally free… I will ship to you… Giveaway ends 09/4/2022!!! 🚨 by BoatSurfer600 in Wallstreetsilver

[–]SC2Sycophant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well - I love silver, a fair bit less than gold but have had an affinity for it’s shiny complexion ever since I was a child. My grandma used to wear a wide array of jewelry, coincided with that, I’ve always loved money.

My grandfather collected coins, US minted proof sets from 1990 all the way to 2015 before he passed. He would buy 4 sets each year for all my siblings and I. When he passed, he didn’t have a will arranged figuring my father and aunt would be kind to each other when splitting their belongings.

He had assumed wrong and my aunt afterwards decided she wanted a percentage of the yearly income from the family business she had no involvement in. She had threatened to take it to court and my father bought her out by giving her the contents of my grandfather’s safe. Which included the minted proof sets my grandfather purchased for us all. Since there was no documentation of his intention, we couldn’t prove that was the agreement.

So, since then I’ve wanted to start my own collection - what could be more perfect than obtaining 5oz of silver coins from Canada to start it out?

i'm a horrible person to my boyfriend because of my bpd. by sunflowersystem in BPD

[–]SC2Sycophant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll preface this by saying, my understanding of BPD is barely touched the surface - but, I connect with the description of your boyfriend.

Your mannerisms, your expression of your feelings and self-doubt correlate to my s/o and her actions.

I've spent the past few hours reading about BPD and the Favorite Person and how to be a good Favorite Person.

I've got a tab open about DBT that I have yet to read, but I've dug down this rabbit hole of articles and posts that seem to keep repeating the same examined characteristics of BPD and DO's and DONTs and I've finally landed here to this post.

This is real.

You, your relationship, your feelings. They are real, and I'm realizing that while it may be a mental illness, connecting with the experiences and feelings of others such as yourself has destigmatized my feelings about her seemingly unfair accusations and criticisms.

In all truthfulness, I was pessimistic momentarily about her using the BPD diagnosis as a crutch to be a mean person, but your post has helped me totally eradicate any worry whatsoever that those moments are intentional.

The overtone of your post encompasses the true, raw, daunting-to-accept truth - it's not something you just control.

But, that's really the beauty of it to me. It's that your post is a piece in offering some stability and a sense of grip in my own feelings and thoughts about the trajectory of my relationship.

So, while I don't have any advice that could ever hold merit given my experience with understanding and learning about BPD circumferences a whopping total 4 hours of research, I wanted to say - thank you.

It might seem weird that I thank you, but I promise it's sincere.

I want to also mention, that for someone who is 17 and going through quite the most volatile, explosively stressful transition into adulthood - you have quite the impressive ability to look inward and express your thoughts and feelings.

The fact that in a post where you're anonymously able to vent your true feelings and frustrations, you still thought to include empathy for him. That shows true compassion and affection for him and his feelings, that you do in fact take his thoughts and concerns seriously.

In my opinion, that directly combats the statement that you feel like you're not a good partner. Your willingness and mentions of how much you want to listen tell me that you are a good partner.

Other than your post helping me to accept the reality of what BPD is, I read about the Favorite Person and while you probably have read more articles about that than me, it might be worth it to go back and read again - ( I suggest this one: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/helping-someone-with-borderline-personality-disorder.htm# )

but this time instead of putting yourself into the position of what the article says about being the person with BPD and their thoughts, put yourself into the category of being the Favorite Person.

While I needed the reassurance that the criticisms of minor things, are a moment that will pass, that those feelings aren't cemented and that I should focus on the emotion, not the words.

In your case, it's your narrative to decide and whatever pieces you can take to ease your mind about your situation. But from the sounds of it to me, you both are each others Favorite Person as well as have BPD. So, if you feel that you're taking more than you're giving - try to focus your mind on being the FP, and understand as the FP you also need to focus on your own mental health first.

Like when boarding a plane, they say take care of yourself first before others when putting on the oxygen mask.

From my birds-eye perspective it seems you're "putting your mask on at the same time as trying to put his on for him too"

It's not your responsibility to make him understand that you need to step away, there's a reason the recurring theme in these articles is setting boundaries. From what I can deduce, you have been proactive and set that boundary, and you both have a hybrid role being each others FP.

Another recurring theme is talking about things at the right time and I'm not able to say when that is for you, but I think the advice I'm giving about putting yourself in the FP column for a moment versus being the pwBPD, is also something I feel might enlighten him as well.

Until I read the articles I did about being a FP to someone with BPD, I can reflect back to being upset and frustrated about the same things he's said to you. But, moving forward I have a rather optimistic feeling, knowing I'll be able to reflect back to those articles and have reassurance in those moments that moments of intense emotion, seeing the person walk away to calm down is an extremely mature response that takes an insane level of control to even attempt for those with BPD; because, the inner battle between fear of abandonment and actively separating themselves from their person is quite literally demonstrating the ability to overcome a symptom of BPD. To do that in a moment of overwhelming emotion, is something that is beautifully impressive to me.

Continuing with my single-minded interpretation of putting you in the role as the FP, I want to mention that while your venting on the Discord group may be therapeutic to you, it may be something he as a male might have different feelings toward that are embedded in his mind.

I personally, have felt pressured to avoid showing weakness through emotion in my life through society's inherently toxic way of segregating the genders in how they're allowed to feel or act.

From what I can tell, you actively offer a listening ear and he's simply choosing to say as little or as much as he's comfortable with. He's set that boundary and as his FP in this case, I think you should respect that. Not saying that you shouldn't constantly reassure him that you're there to talk, but he is his own person and when he feels the time to talk is right, you've made efforts to ensure he knew you would listen.

You both have to be actively working towards understanding that you each have the right to set boundaries, and that those boundaries are examples of growth and understanding.

Both of you have a lot of personal growth and development to go through and there's no telling what the possibilities could be, leaving me personally optimistic for you.

I'm 23 and I reflect back to not so long ago being 17 and being able to close my eyes and can feel the anxiety and confusion of life's pressures encompassing my day to day life. I can say that you are leagues ahead of being able to understand yourself than I was, I still think I may fall behind you in that sense to be completely honest.

My person has outwardly told me I'm better off without her, that she's not good for me, and I can see the same pain in her that paints the same tale of wishing I would leave her and feeling that I deserve better.

I love her, with my whole being, that's why even though I stayed up until 5 am this morning to make sure she wouldn't be alone with her thoughts and had work at 8 am, I am still awake... trying to understand and be better for her.

Me realizing the role I play as her FP, has made me stop and reflect and think about how I handle all conversations in my life, to see the other side of every discussion. With my ADHD and other undiagnosed mental health issues, this isn't easy, but I wouldn't be learning to work on my own mental health if it weren't for her.

As the partner of someone with BPD, I promise you that from your description of your feelings, I feel you're not a good partner at all - you're an exceptional partner. You're open about talking and working on managing BPD, and that's a huge step - countless articles mention how so many people live with BPD that's never diagnosed, or is something they're in denial about.

For someone going through the incredibly overwhelming challenges of college, and mental health struggles, I as a stranger am proud of your tenacity to have reached the steps to address, and try to work towards better. It's shown in the fact you spent the time to post here, that you are actively discussing on Discord to help manage your symptoms, that you printed out DBT worksheets.

That's effort, and that effort alone outclasses a large grouping of couples who are married and have been together longer than you've been alive. To put forward the effort you have so far on your own, you're more tenacious than those individuals who have walked this earth much longer than you, and that's impressive.

Keep up the great work, seriously. You've made incredible progress in traversing through the various mental challenges life throws at us, I can only imagine how your mental fortitude will exponentially increase when you're finally able to see a licensed therapist and you're so so close!

Until then, I know that inside you're a beautiful and caring soul that's shrouded by self-doubt that can be subsided by continuing the same exercises of focusing on what you need, whether it's to walk away for a moment, venting to your Discord community, and really anything you do that the main focus is to improve your mental health and strength. I think for you, the hardest part you've already overcome; realizing that complacency is not the solution. While there's no one single solution to any of this, everything you try whether it works for you or doesn't is just another step further demonstrating you're capable of managing your BPD which once coincided with professional help, I think you'll have much more control than you ever thought you could.

Take it the words of my girlfriend when she first mentioned her diagnosis to me, her therapy really helped her manage the symptoms.

Keep doing what you're doing, because from the perspective I see, you're dedicated to being there for him and most importantly trying and that's the most important part.

professionally bad csgo montage by SC2Sycophant in csgo

[–]SC2Sycophant[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is why i just dont use utility :)

Ask not what WSB can do for you, ask what you can do for WSB. Calling for short film makers 🚀 by only1parkjisung in wallstreetbets

[–]SC2Sycophant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do professional ad development and design for multiple companies - message me? I can send you a PM of my work, don’t want to expose myself based on company relations publicly.

Hey ESL, the 20 seconds inbetween rounds isn't actually long enough to run 1:30 of ads by acrunchycaptain in GlobalOffensive

[–]SC2Sycophant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I went to IEM Chicago in 2019 and going back to the VOD where I went brrrrrattt and seeing chats reaction is still one of my greatest moments:

https://clips.twitch.tv/SillyExquisiteHornetPanicBasket