Things have been a little crazy for me the past couple of weeks. Had this work project that damn near sucked the life out of me. The client didn’t provide much clarity and was incredibly indecisive. It was hard on a number of us at work. The project encompassed a lot of things from print material (postcards and posters), an online web experience and even the design of an in-store display. Myself and a couple of designers, the AE and Creative Director were all up into the weeEE hours sending pages back and forth with internal reviews and to the client. I realize there are deadlines and that in order to meet really tight deadlines there needs to be some sacrifice, but yo, this was getting out of hand. It’s so exhausting working with a client that means well by wanting to make sure he/she has explored all possibilities, but that comes at the expense not only of their personal time, but ours too. The client didn’t seem very thankful in the end even after the heavy nights and weekend turn-arounds. I guess I can’t you complain too much because I learned a lot. What’s funny is that after all the revisions and edits we came full circle to my original design idea. Oh well, the pics are from various project aspects (Online Experience, In-Store monitor Landing page, Postcards…) Just click on the (+/-) and you’ll see more images.
If you’ve visited the site and not just read the emails you receive in email, then you may have noticed that the layout for the blog has changed. Trying to arranged things so that more information is readily available once someone visits us. Looks simple enough to do, but believe me, I’ve spent a ton of hours just trying to figure out the code to move things around. I think it will be all for the better though. Some other things that are going to happen:
1. The main blog area may be followed by two excerpt style sections with feature posts for The Candy (for the girls) and The HYPE (for the fellas).
2. Well if there’s gonna be a Candy section then that means I’m importing PINKs makeup blog into NA. Anyone else interested in contributing to that let me know. It’ll be fun.
3. Still trying to figure out how to implement a random posts thumbnail gallery. Harder than I thought.
4. Columns for all three sections will remain.
5. Rotating image banner will be added to the top of the site. Already done, just haven’t gotten around to posting the code to get it working.
6. Sending out that SNEAK. AaaaaHH!
That sounds like enough to do this coming weekend. I hope you all had a good April Fools Day.
Later,
GREEDY
Newborn Apple™
