expectations
Our entire staff was asked to read “The Starbucks Experience” a few months ago. I finally finished it last night. Great book, I highly recommend it… even though it took me a while to read. I am really more a fan of mystery books. So today in our monthly all staff meeting we were asked to define who our primary and secondary customers were based on the department we work in and explain how we saw their expectations.
My primary customer: our church staff
Their expectations: for their projects to be professional, FREE, cutting edge, and done yesterday (they all seemed to agree)
My response: is supposed to be yes
My “customers” have unrealistic expectations everyday and it is my job to meet them to the best of my ability. Sometimes I handle this well, sometimes not so much. More times then not I put unrealistic expectations on myself to get all of this done. This week I have come to realize that I will probably never clear our project board because for every one project I erase 4 more come in. Sad realization I must tell you.
swirls and circles
the week before easter, this mailer came to our house. i noticed it sitting on the counter on my way out the door and it caught my eye because it looked terribly familiar. it was a church in our area promoting their Easter service. it had the same circles and vector people on it that I had just recently used. it was right then that i realized that it was time to take it to the next level.
the trends in the graphics world seem to change about every 2-4 months from what i have noticed. and i am not the most observant of people. right now it seems that the trend is ornate floralish vector art and vector circles. vector art is big… and while it has helped me start to love illustrator. i think it is time to figure out what’s next. i think i am pretty good at staying at the beginning end of the curve. so when i figure out what the next trend is… i might be so inclined to let you know.
current projects i am brainstorming: annual report and welcome packet
fresh start
After weeks of debating, I decided to start blogging again. More so than debating, I was trying to get my blogger page look like I wanted it to; since that did not work, I moved on to alternative sources. Being an avid user of blogger and typepad, wordpress is rather confusing on the user side… well at least if you are a mac user.
I am going to try and post about things I think and discover as a designer with some random stuff about life in general. And if you are new to reading my blog, I can not spell and I have bad grammer. Thus I am neither a writer or proofreader.
