Mike Render

Maybe the title of this one should be " I can't make you a LOVE and RESPECT design ". The reason I say this is because I have been designing for a long time and I have been doing freelance for a while too, and I don't think any of the clients I have done work for love or respect design. The requests for work and the strange ideas that I am asked complete sometimes are just WRONG! I always try to steer them in the clients in the right visual direction but I always come to this certain point where I am not qualified to steer anymore and the client has to drive ME to get to where he/she wants to go. Now what just happened? At what point after asking me to design something did you lose faith that I could design your something? As a designer, what did I do or did not do to cause you the CLIENT to replace your expertise with mine. Just wondering???

Let me know your thoughts.

So last night I starting working on the Splash Page(Coming Soon) for my fraternity the Smithfield(NC) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. I think it came out really good, I found a nice photo on Flickr that I'm using for the background and I really think it pulls the page together. The only part I'm not too confident about is the content I used for on the page, I'm not a writer so someone else might have to do that part but here it is.

My homies Damond Nollan, Tim Arthur, Vincent Davis, Marianne Hartsfield are great blog writers and they write all the time. Even my man Derek Brinson is writing again. So I need to get back on but this time I want it to reflect me and what I do. My homies Damond Nollan, Tim Arthur, Vincent Davis, Marianne Hartsfield are great blog writers and they write all the time. Even my man Derek Brinson is writing again. So I need to get back on but this time I want it to reflect me and what I do. I design and I love doing it, but I don't know what to really write about. Im so afraid of going over peoples head with what I might say especially if you don't design, so here is my solution that I want to run by you guys just to see if these are great ideas a designer should be blogging about.

1. Abdzeedo



Abdzeedo is where I go to get design inspiration and its a great place to see some really great work from tons of designers. So here is what I want to write about, Abdzeedo has a section called Daily Inspiration, and I will pick my top three Favorite pics and talk about what and why I like them. Pretty cool huh? I don't know if Im gonna do this part but maybe pick the three worst designs and critic them and talk about what would make them better. That might not hurt.

2. My Own Work



I do freelance design work and I think Im gonna try to talk about some of the projects that I work on. I want to try to talk about how I come up with the designs, any problems or issued I might of had, how the client liked or disliked my work, and just the overall story of the whole project. Yeah that will work.

3. What my Peoples are doing



I know this really cool group of people called the "3026 Live Regs" at least thats what I call them. But I think im gonna talk about them and what they are doing. You know a lil promotion, a lil commenting on there blogs, and jus saying hello.

So I think this might work, what do you think? Is there anything else I could write about? Is there anything you would want me to write about? Let me know in a comment or soemthing

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