Every so often at work the only thing I seem to do is code which I love to begin with but eventually hate (well kind of hate - hate in the way a parent hates an ungrateful child I guess, I don’t know as I don’t have any children but I’ll assume). Then other times there only seems to be loads of flash ads that need to be created, shown, amended, shown, amended and finally approved (they always seem to be the most tedious though, probably because of file size problems and the fact the client hasn’t got the four page story they wanted in the space of a Skyscraper or banner ad!). Then the thing that I always want to have land on my desk some real design work, but even this is starting to get to me at the moment.
For the last few weeks I seem to have spent a lot of time on several different briefs which for the most part has been great as I think I’ve created some really nice ideas. Although since some are only at pitch stage I may never actually get to code them which can be frustrating as when I am finished and happy with a design I can’t wait until I get it coded and live. So I can rifle through it and experience my own work which I always think is one of the pretty cool things about working in web design/development. Guess I’ll just have to see how the pitch’s go, would like to say I’m quite confident though.
In saying this I have also created a few designs recently which have been selected and approved by clients and the final build brief just hasn’t reached me because of the pitch work I’ve been doing. Even though I very, very, very much appreciate designing for pitch’s, I am looking forward to getting my teeth back into some XHTML/CSS/JavaScript. Can’t wait!
PS. I know this wasn’t the most structed of articles, just fancied a bit of a rant.
