What can be done in 20 hrs.
suborior (133 points) | Thu, 2005-11-03 18:30Anyone ever make a massively insane deadline...like a 8' x 4' poster on gloss mounted on foam core, design, approved, proofed, printed, mounted and delivered in under 20 hrs?
Anything similar though, where even though the time given was next to nothing for such a project...the end product rocks and you feel like you just performed a miracle?
Thats how I feel, and its what I imagine a doctor must feel like when he brings someone back to life.
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hell ya duuude.. it's frky fun to ! :D Dring lots of red bull and cheetos, but it can be done,,
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I remember doing all the on stage intro graphics for a national awards ceremony (800 people) where I was still completing the final sequences as the first categories were being presented. It was being filmed for broadcast as well.
Sometimes it's bad planning, sometimes it's just sheer volume of work, sometimes it's the culture in design where people are expected to produce in insane timeframes. And you wonder why burnout rears it's head more and more often.
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"I guess which ever way you look at it, its brown trousers time"
Im guessing this pretty much summed up how you were feeling when that ceremony started?
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Had been at my desk for a straight 48 hours beforehand producing the website, brochures, organising the presenters scripts...etc..etc...There's stress and then there's pressure. Sometimes you're too tired to know the difference.
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Bad planning in my recent case, and most similar cases like this for me is the culptirt. But ya know...nothing feels quite so fantastic. Working on a project for months and months is amazing too, but maybe its the difference between completing a marathon, or winning the 100 meter sprint.
Sorry, my last day at MS has me all nostalgic about design:)
- Jeff Yamada
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I wish we had such fast project cycles.. It's at least three business days for people to decide and work starts. Even those three business days are very rare..
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It wasn't the same sort of a timeline, but I worked on the Foo Fighters tour book a couple years ago and they came to us 3 weeks before their tour was to start and they wanted this book done ASAP. All I was given was a horrendous amount of pictures to sort through and no copy. I worked for 3 weeks straight, weekends and all, through numerous cross country proofs to get the job approved and finished. I managed to get it all done and sent to press so it could be printed, folded and saddlestitched and shipped to Bakersfield, CA for the start of the tour. It turned out pretty well, but was really a project I look back on with regret given it was a dream project and I had to fly through it to meet the deadline.
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I'm a DJ and just a couple weeks ago, I got booked for a dance like 2 days before the actual thing and I had to get a whole bunch of edits and move so much gear it was insane. 4 Yorkville 1208 subs, 2 EV mains, and 2 12-Unit amp racks, 2 4-Unit racks and the all of the cables, lighting and sound board, a few Martin MX-1's and a couple DC-1's. That was hectic, but almost everyone really liked the dance cept a couple of kids that kept on screaming 'COUNTRY, PLAY COUNTRY!' That ticked me off. I like hip hop and rock. NO COUNTRY. But it was all good in the end. Those days were hectic, and I'm glad I could rope my friend Peter into helping a bunch.
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Ok this might sound like a great idea to people who dont have jobs or friends and live in front of their mac (.. 1 out of 3 for me then) - what about a 24 hour design project contest?
ok.. i admit.. that was lame.
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..the project is our own portfolio sites? Every time I go to look at someone's work from this site, it's incomplete or under construction...
Not being critical - I think it's hilarious that as designers we rarely have time to work on our *own* stuff. Personally, that's why I just threw up my resume and a PDF portfolio file - this solves two problems: 1) I don't have to spend any time updating the site, 2) people can download my work and take it with them, without having to rely on the proper browser or screen resolution
On a side note, I must now publicly admit to afterglow that I found inspiration for my mini-PDF icons on his 'Downloads' page - please don't sue. :-P
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I know what you mean (holds up hand to admit to the crime of "under construction")
Luckily at the moment I dont need more work, im actually busting at the seams but i hope to get my site sorted early in the new year.
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I'd set my lawyers on you if I hadn't been "inspired" myself ;)
The time and effort involved in keeping a site up to date while doing a full time job is always a surprise. (Currently fiddling to add an RSS feed manually) I admire someone who can keep up a daily blog while keeping to their client deadlines.
As for a large section of designer sites, I often wonder why people show a tiny snippet of their work in little squares as their portfolio page. It's the same thing with Icon designers who will only ever show a portion of the Icons within a set. People are visiting your site to see what you do. Why make them jump through hoops to guess what's the nicest thing you have in your portfolio?
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