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D'accord. See my further remarks on the subject, addressed to Zelda below.

Mara

1) we're not here to baby step you through it all
2) did the whole school decide to come on here and get free advise?
3) is this a joke? really, we've given some advice, then a bunch of people with the same "school assignment" just come running out of the wood work looking for advice
4) has any of the advice AT ALL been taken? some of these designs seem really repetitive, from different people at that!

sorry, suck might not have been the right word, but annoying sure is. we're designers by trade, on here to give random free advice or suggestions to people. we're not here to act as teachers to half-a-dozen students working on the same project....

With all due respect, Zelda, get used to it.

If you barge into a place without so much as a "good afternoon" and start making demands that effectively require total strangers to do your homework for you -- which is unethical in any setting -- you should expect some "disturbing" reactions. I can assure you that if you walked into a flesh-space professional design studio with the same attitude, and with the same level of work speaking volumes about your right to be treated as a fellow professional (or not, as the portfolio may be), you would be invited to leave faster than the Art Director could say, "And don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Now, if you had approached us with a polite introduction and asked if it might be appropriate for you to ask a few questions about a class assignment, then offered a few sketches of what you'd come up with so far along with an explanation of what you were trying to achieve, you might have a very different experience.

Or not.

You follow on the heels of a spectacularly annoying visitor to CB, so it's possible you've caught us in a very bad mood. But you know what? That's life. Designers have to gauge people's moods and biases all the time. It's part of the business. Might I suggest that you take this to heart, and start working on that?

Now excuse me. I have to take my Furious Old Beetch medicine and go to bed.

So far 5 or 6 of you from the same class have all asked for critiques on the same assignment. Several of the posts seem to have been self-deleted. I know when I was in design school rarely were projects discussed among other students ( or total anonymous strangers). Usually things like library research and lots of late-nite brainstorming was involved in finding design solutions.

I stated my point of view in the previous thread --- you had no reply to it, yet more posts keep coming. So, how about we find some common ground and make this useful to all of us.

How did this get started with the students posting on CreativeBits? Do groups of students working on assignments usually go online to have their work critiqued by professionals? Do students produce better work this way rather than using their own talent or critical thinking?

Is this something you would feel comfortable discussing with your class instructor? If not, why?

If yes, .... tell us more! In fact, how about your instuctor join in and we'll critique your work like crazy. (just kidding about that)

:)