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All hail A4 paper.

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I see the new version of #Adobe #Indesign seems to be designed to give your computer's fan a workout. They must have been taking notes from the #Illustrator team. #design #DesignersOfMastodon

Definitely far from the most vile thing about the place or its occupant but the copy under the crest looks shit.

Either the designer's phoned it in or they've put an extra space in on purpose.

It is also set in the sort of font one would be saddled with if you were buying the very cheap wedding stationery.

#TinyResistances #Design #GraphicDesign #DesignersOfMastodon

Okay, the pay's not great but I'm very tempted to apply for this:

Also the benefits include "Secure parking", which you'd bloody want it to be. Which as it's in central London is probably worth a fortune, now I come to think of it.

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Managed to go my whole career without having to learn Adobe XD. New client means my luck has officially run out. Cock it.

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Turns out I've stumbled across #AI 's killer app and it's getting rid of watermarks from stock imagery*. Which is a great development. I can think of no way in which this can be abused.

*we will be paying for it but Getty slapped it right where the logo was going and my client lacks the imagination to pretend it's not there.

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I don't know who needs to hear this but live video over #Teams or #Zoom doesn't work currently.

If you need a bunch of people, like your whole agency, to watch a video, send it to them and ask them to watch it, then do the Q&A (or whatever) afterward.

How many person hours have we wasted as a species on this bullshit in the last few years.

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Just came out of our first all-#agency meeting of the year and as expected, we're going balls-deep into Generative #AI (just like everyone else).

We did the same over the Metaverse and NFT's though, so make of that what you will.

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I don't know who might need this but this is the definitive guide to #TableOfContents in #Indesign. Bookmark it.

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Tiny things that wind me up.

The word "Indesign" isn't in Indesign's spelling dictionary as default. But 'InDesign' in camel-case is.

But the icon for #Indesign (below) isn't in camel-case.

I wouldn't care but to me, this is somehow emblematic of #Adobe's complete lack of consistency across everything they do. #Design #DesignersOfMastodon

So true. #Design #DesignersOfMastodon

Chinese New year 2024 card #WIP. #ChineseNewYear #Design #YearOfTheDragon #DesignersOfMastodon

Another day, another *Adobe's botched another update which means I've lost all my preferences in Illustrator*. #Adobe #Bastards #Design #DesignersOfMastodon

"Digital transformation" - in 2023? Are you fucking kidding me?

This was outdated a decade ago. Anyone talking digital transformation now needs to have their marketing department rebuilt from scratch. #Design #DesignersOfMastodon

I went to a lecture at Arts University Bournemouth this week from the amazing Sam Winston. Super inspirational stuff if you're at all interested in #art and #design

Video at the link - well worth 2:45 minutes of your time.

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https://www.samwinston.com/projects/drawing-breath

"Can I please have a vector version of your logo for an online article which obliquely references your business?"

*business sends a zip containing no fewer than 15 variations of their logo and a 12 page pdf on how to use it*

Yeah, I'm not going to read that and I'm going to use the first one in the list, mate. FFS.

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Can we all just finally admit that playing video over Teams or Zoom *doesn't fucking work*. Shitty sound, choppy visuals and we're all expected to just sit there and pretend we know what's going on. #Design #DesignersOfMastodon #AgencyLife

Have we done this one yet and am I doing it right?

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A word of advice for #Adobe CC users: if I were you, I'd turn off your auto-updates.

My apps have all updated (automatically) on one machine and I did it manually on the other.

The machine that I had set to auto-update did not auto-delete the old versions, as it was supposed to. And whether or not it imported my old prefs from the existing versions seems to have been random, depending on the app.

Doing it manually seems to have worked just fine. 🙄

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This job ad is schizophrenic:

...are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Social Media & Graphic Designer.

"2 years experience required though exceptional candidates may be considered without this experience"

"Career progression; we hire our staff based on the long-term"

Temp position for 1 year with potential for permanent role

- Ability to work under pressure without a 9 to 5 mentality

It's part-time, 16k a year. And I'm sure, a fucking nightmare.

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Just remembered I booked next week off. It's been so busy with clients returning from Summer Hols, I'd quite forgotten. Next week is all #diy
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Anyone remotely surprised by this?

Related: unpaid, speculative pitch-work really needs to die.

#Design #DesignersofMastodon #Brewdog https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/brewdogs-beer-grandchildren-faces-claims-similarity-droga5-pitch/1834548?bulletin=campaign-saturday-summary&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=eNews%20Bulletin&utm_source=20230826&utm_content=Campaign%20Saturday%20Summary%20(55)::&email_hash=

So this is what a 'tweet' looks like on the 'X' platform? With a prominent 'X' in the top right corner?

What in the ever loving fuck must their #UI designers think? I don't think I'd ever get used to not reflexively clicking on it. What a bonehead that man is.

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New internal #agency training sessions for Autumn are out and one of them is "What is an #NFT?" and I can't help but wonder if I woke up from my nap in the past. #DesignersOfMastodon

Fuck me. Look at the state of this. I've looked it up on a couple of sites and it's not a typo, they do seem to be paying about £6 a hour. £6!

For reference - McDonald's is £9 for a "crewmember".

#DesignersOfMastodon #Jokers

Just submitted the first year's work for my 2-year master's Graphic Design course. A relief. #design #DesignersOfMastodon #HigherEd #Masters

I've been invited to interview for a job. Fine. This is the process:

Screening call with our Talent Acquisition Specialist (45 minutes);

English check test (30-45 minutes);

Technical interview with HM (1 hour);

Test assignment (6-10 hours);

Competency-based interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist (1.5 hours).

What's that - 13 hours? For a job I'm being *invited* to apply for?

The salary is btw, "competitive", whatever that means.

Fuck that.

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Fuck me. Run away!

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