Okay, so I just need to let.it.go. I know, I know, get on with it. Don't let it get to me. Well, isn't that what a journal is for? Write about it & then get over it. So I'll share it with you...the blog that no one is reading (LOL...I'm laughing alone here, I know).
So today I receive in the mail a membership drive packet for an association for which I am a member. Not only that, I serve on the board. Not only that, I designed some of the original documents for last year's drive. The printing looks great. The color is good. The concept works. The design is screwy.
Okay, so I'm a stickler for detail...I'm picky about layout & design...alright, I'll admit it, I'm anal (that always looks so much worse in print than it does when you say it out loud).
You see, my eye is automatically drawn to typos (not my own of course) and layout flow. So on the very first page I see a bulleted list that isn't set correctly. Okay, so I designed this thing in the latest MS Word (.docx) and the new person needed old Word (.doc). So someone did a save-as for them (I knew it shoulda been me!) and they obviously didn't know how to format bullets.
Okay, breathe Shelly, it's okay, no big deal, let.it.go.
Next page, whew, not one of mine. Oh ick! It's a survey page and they used spaces instead of tabs to line things up, oh ick, they put the answer lines at the END of the sentences! Okay, visual needed here...imagine this...
Survey question number one. _ _ _ _ _
Survey question number is longer. _ _ _ _ _
Question for the survey. _ _ _ _ _
Well, you get the picture. And why put them at the end? Never mind that they used some weird dotted line thingie - why not put them at the beginning of each sentence? ugh.
Okay, last "marketing" page is the application. This one WAS mine (& by "was" I mean it no longer is because someone else made changes to it). All of my check boxes were changed to some weird character (that I later learn is a Euro money symbol). So rather than checking the boxes for your interests, or for your payment choices, etc., you're supposed to what, circle your choice?
Oh the horror of layout and design!
Okay, I'm feeling much better now. Thank you for listening...er reading...er, who am I kidding, I'm alone out here! Well, if it weren't for the whole Facebook thingie, my blog would never get read...so thanks to all my FB peeps....but if you feel compelled to leave a comment, please click on the "View Original Post" link & put it on my blog. It would make me feel more loved. I'm just kidding folks! No really, I'm serious......Okay, I really need a fresh cup of tea now.
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2 comments:
Calm down... I know just what you are feeling, especially since you originally designed it. BUT you left out the one thing I was waiting for... who the heck printed it? Why wasn't it at least "the mailing dept"s job? Take heart, most people will not notice the bad typesetting and design. I hate it too when I see things like you pointed out, and know how much better I could do...but then remember to feel better when I realize, I didn't have to "do" it, and that makes me feel better :-)
It's the "I didn't have to do it" that saves me. I always feel the need to volunteer my time to avoid seeing these kinds of results, but it's okay, someone else can do it and no one will know it was my designs from last year and I can live with that!
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