Spec's Yes Specifications are very important.

Usually I do all my own printing but sometimes my client has me bid and they bid also. They ask for the design specs so we would be on the same page right? wrong they like to pull the bait and switch you know you tell them what printing specs that you are working with and how it is part of the design but they want to think that they are getting a better deal by bidding something different and expecting it to still be spectacular. They agree, you go several rounds still confirming that they are printing the piece with the specs you gave them because these things need to be in place. For instance when you bid on a silk sheet maybe with some spot varnishes you design accordingly ie. using coated color swatches to get the color you are expecting when finished. I don't know how many times I have gone on press and they are printing on an uncoated stock and they are complaining about the color. Or when I have spent the time to set up spot varnish in my file to get there and see they aren't using any varnish. The frustrating part is that I like to have my files right when they go to the printers production team for several reasons, you can get breaks from printers if you are providing them with good files, it builds report and because I used to work in a prepress department and would be astonished at the files I got in from really good agencies and made me think lesser of them.
***side rant*** Please use a layout program like INDESIGN when laying out your project. Illustrator is not a layout program unless you are doing packaging.

The Rays and Graphic People Post 2

It is currently 11:50 and I have already run across the people vector a new one that I haven't seen yet it was an advertising on pandora.
I wonder how many more I will come across today or any given day for that matter but I will keep you updated.

The Rays and People Graphic that is EVERYWHERE

There is one graphic that is getting a lot of use and is everywhere! I have seen it on trade show booths, then I was back in Minnesota and had to go to Taco Johns and get me some potato ole's and there it was in green and yellow on the window cling.


The rays are appearing everywhere from tv where bam uses it in his intro background to clothing. Frenches buffalo wing sauce has the rays on their packaging and have seen other hints in the grocery store aisle.

The people with the rays is really getting on my nerves there is one on a billboard on my way home and a ticketmaster banner at the mall. They are freakin everywhere.

But I am so twisted that I would love to see other examples to see how people work with them differently.

Wedding Update just In

So you know those cd's that the groom and groomsmen stayed up burning til the wee hours of the morning I was ranting about earlier this week. Well, here is the update, first of all the staff took all the cd's off the table before any of the guests had a chance to grab one. Well, one of the guests did and they called to give me this update. First off we were all very curious as to what was on this damn cd with a picture that didn't resemble the bride and groom burned on the top. Apparently my friend popped it into his cd player in the car as he couldn't compose his excitement to hear what was on this cd and he got an error. He though oh maybe it just won't play in this cd player so he tried several other cd players including his computer and to no avail it wouldn't play. All I have to say is Bridezilla's SUCK!

Micro Managed Weddings what is up with that.

I spent last weekend accompanying my husband who was a groomsmen to a wedding of our friend. The bride was beyond a bridezilla and hadn't made any effort to be ready for her big day. She instructed us all that we had to go to bed at 9pm the night before her wedding which was at 6pm the following evening but proceeded to make the groom burn 100 discs which took him to 7am the morning of their wedding. There were maybe 70 guests and all the cd's were left on the tables. If this wasn't bad enough the women incharge of the place were they married was a micro managing bitch. The best was she made us blow bubble for a good half hour while the couple danced in the gazibo then instructed us (not very friendly) to line up and blow more bubbles as the couple walked down the aisle. Seriously, it was bad and as a bride of the past I wouldn't want to be hearing "keep blowing" over and over again while I am trying to enjoy my last dance. I could go on but I think that you have heard enough.