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Subject:    [kde-promo] Art work
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date:       2001-06-22 13:25:04
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Just to further prolong this agony.  I thought that the drawing was 
fantastic, shows incredible skill and talent and is also totally 
inappropriate for the magazine.  Andreas and I are both older than we would 
like to be and have worked in corporate america and abroad in various 
capacities so we have some experience with this.  Andreas has made 
excellent points.  I have two artists on staff that are both very skilled 
in different ways.  One is trained and worked in marketing and advertising 
and is use to having to throw out a variety of ideas and so doesn't take it 
personal when something doesn't fly.  The other is a natural talent and I 
can tell he bristles whenever we don't use one of his ideas.  It's never 
that the work is bad, it's that the idea doesn't work for the 
application.  It's a delicate process for me to have them both do work on 
the same project so I can get more ideas faster because of the ego involved.

Art is a very personal thing and a lot of ego is tied up in it.  While I 
can barely draw a stick figure myself (which is why I'm in awe of this 
talent) I do write and perform music, so I understand how personal it is 
and to be shot down hurts.  Now if I wrote commercial jingles for a living, 
then I would understand that the objective is different and that for every 
10 ideas only 1 would be used.

Now I see two fine people jumping ship basically because a single idea was 
rejected, not because it wasn't skilled, because it was, but because it 
wasn't appropriate.  Please remember that not every idea is gold and will 
be accepted with open arms by everyone immediately.  I imagine that with 
the level of talent that Aga has, she rarely if ever get's criticized, so 
it is probably a bit hard to swallow.

My suggestion would be that Aga rough sketch out a half a dozen ideas and 
throw up a poll system, possibly solicit ideas from others.  I'll throw it 
out to my artists to see if they have any flash's of insight on it.


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276


 
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