Writing this one harks back all the way to my college days. In a design class, we were given a competition. A local clay company had a market for one of their by-products- kitty litter- and it wasn’t selling well at all. The class would all come up with designs for a kitty litter back to replace the poor selling one. Yay. Three entries were chosen, and prizes were given. We heard later from the reps at the clay company that when the CEO saw the new designs, he said they couldn’t use any. They did not have HIS cat on them, like the old bags did. We said, no problem- we can use photos of the cat and modify the designs. Turns out, no. There was only one, tiny, black and white photo of the cat, which was long dead. The packaging kept the same eye-gouging, grainy, over-enlarged, gray tone photo for years more. I learned a LOT in that class, but not about graphic design or illustration.
Endless feed of catvideos is a given thing with the internet today. And whenever there is something interesting like winter olympics you may gather in the cafeteria and take some off the mindnumbing experience of your workplace.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 6 years ago
What part of “mural”, i.e. static image, did the CFO not understand?
gregcartoon Premium Member over 6 years ago
Writing this one harks back all the way to my college days. In a design class, we were given a competition. A local clay company had a market for one of their by-products- kitty litter- and it wasn’t selling well at all. The class would all come up with designs for a kitty litter back to replace the poor selling one. Yay. Three entries were chosen, and prizes were given. We heard later from the reps at the clay company that when the CEO saw the new designs, he said they couldn’t use any. They did not have HIS cat on them, like the old bags did. We said, no problem- we can use photos of the cat and modify the designs. Turns out, no. There was only one, tiny, black and white photo of the cat, which was long dead. The packaging kept the same eye-gouging, grainy, over-enlarged, gray tone photo for years more. I learned a LOT in that class, but not about graphic design or illustration.
anorok2 over 6 years ago
Enough of the mural!!!…..move on ,Greg!……..it’s borrrrring!
Number Three over 6 years ago
Here, Kitty Kitty!
(Sorry, I couldn’t think of a clever comment to put)
xxx
Saucy1121 Premium Member over 6 years ago
A series of paintings of the cat in different poses. Now, you have a mural.
unfair.de over 6 years ago
So the solution is whitewash and a beamer!
Endless feed of catvideos is a given thing with the internet today. And whenever there is something interesting like winter olympics you may gather in the cafeteria and take some off the mindnumbing experience of your workplace.