Utah Graphic Artists Forum » Jonathan Hull http://ugaf.org Arena for local visual arts communication and expression Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Orphan Works Bill http://ugaf.org/2008/05/12/orphan-works-bill/ http://ugaf.org/2008/05/12/orphan-works-bill/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 22:19:20 +0000 Jonathan Hull http://ugaf.org/?p=306 What has everyone heard on this one? I was forwarded some information about this proposed bill from a friend working as an illustrator in California. The proposed bill looks as though it applies to all visual arts. The short of it seems to say that if someone can’t find a credit for your work either on print or on the internet, that they can take it and use it as they like. I’m curious what everyone else’s take is on this. Here are a couple links to more comprehensive information on it:

capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/bills/?billid=11320236
capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

]]> http://ugaf.org/2008/05/12/orphan-works-bill/feed/ Springville Spring Salon http://ugaf.org/2007/05/29/springville-spring-salon/ http://ugaf.org/2007/05/29/springville-spring-salon/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 21:18:48 +0000 Jonathan Hull http://ugaf.org/2007/05/29/springville-spring-salon/ I recently had the opportunity to see the Springville Museum of Art’s Spring Salon. Just curious what impressions others had of the show.
Did anyone here submit or have pieces accepted? What kinds of fine art does everyone enjoy producing and viewing?

]]> http://ugaf.org/2007/05/29/springville-spring-salon/feed/ Dumbing down design http://ugaf.org/2007/05/04/dumbing-down-design/ http://ugaf.org/2007/05/04/dumbing-down-design/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 16:28:45 +0000 Jonathan Hull http://ugaf.org/2007/05/04/dumbing-down-design/ For the last three months, I’ve been working with a client that produces investment software, helping them brand the product and design the website and manuals. This last week, they met with potential investors who felt that blue and grey were too colorful and mingh offend somebody, they also decided that the name of the product, which associated an emotional idea rather than a reinteration of what the product does, was unacceptable, and that the name had to have ‘invest’ within it.

Meeting with my client, he asked me how I felt about it from my standpoint, and I told him that I thought it made their product thoroughly forgettable. He was in agreement with me and we likened the name change to calling a company like ‘Starbucks’, ‘CoffeeCorp’ instead and painting their shops with flat grey paint, a black and white logo of a coffee cup and using a laminate flooring and formica tables… just so that any color or style wouldn’t exclude or offend anyone. I was gratified that the individual that I work most directly with in the client’s organization was in agreement with me, but in the end, he doesn’t have the power to change the decision.

I’m curious if this is a common issue that designers face, and how they deal with it. I certainly don’t want to offend or lose a client (particularly as they are my studio’s client and not mine directly), but I don’t want to lie to them and tell them I think it’s a good decision to ‘dumb-down’ their brand in some hope that it’ll appeal to everyone. My take is, that while it may not ‘offend’ anyone, as they say, it will never stand out to be appreciated either.

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