Good therapy!

Well we are at least getting our complaints out and that is good for something. I too hate logo design -- I have described it as a cliché wrapped in an enigma -- and that’s on a good day. I have had my boss pop his head in my office right before lunch and say “HR needs a logo by the end of the day. Give them five looks. They want a hiker on it.” Not a clue what HR might be using this for and frankly don’t care with this sort of time frame. I had clients come in for a logo for a new program to help older people learn computers. I kid you not; it had to have a computer, and owl, a graduation cap and two tag lines plus the name. In these cases they get either the totem or the shield configuration and that’s that. All in a day’s work. I like what I do most days and I like the people I work with. Sometimes helping them is just giving them what they need so they can move on. Other times you need to go to the mat because you don’t want the workplace to look like fools. Sometimes it’s hard to know when to immediately cave in and just give them that jazzy business fabulous thing they think they want or to try to educate and make something better. It’s good to have creative outlets outside of work too. It helps me a lot.