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@OP it seems like you don’t have a great grasp on how things happen. My guess, is that you designed something for someone, you were proud of it, and the credit went to a CD or AD, and now you think that means they don’t work. Blink twice if I’m right.
@OP what about my calling you out gives you any sense of my ability to bring things to life? What do you know about my achievements? Or my background? Your responses on here, as well as your post itself all ladder up to one theme: you don’t know shit.
Your post needs rewording
No work? Ok, design director
“A five year old can come up with an idea”. Ok this thread is closed folks. OP can’t be helped
I’m finding this thread super rewarding. I’m weighing in just so I can throw my name on it later for cheekily correcting your typo.
There are plenty of paralegals that will disagree with you, there.
Lol. You really think that? Jeez Louise, the amount of people on here who complain about how hard it is to be overcompensated to make up dumb ads continuously blows my mind. It’s not an easy gig by any means, but you’d think people were working in a gulag by the tone of these posts
It’s like a contractor complaining that an architect can’t build a house by himself. People have different roles
I mean, at my last job, the bullshitter who took credit for things was the design director. 🤷🏼♀️
Yeah OP if you're executing ideas a 5 year old can come up with you work at a shitty place anyway so who cares.
Last time we executed my 5 y-o niece’s idea it did not go over well. We weren’t at work. I’ve since lived in fear someone looks behind the cabinet.
OP, Not denying there are people working their way through with bs or politics (in every field btw), but you seem to be pointing to normal dynamics and sometimes just work flow. A CD pulling images from google is probably just helping out with the little things so that the kids can keep playing with ideas. Even when they can in fact execute, they might be needed on something else. To reverse your argument, if you can’t have ideas to execute you shouldn’t be a creative.
If that’s your take on adv/agencies maybe a design studio or firm would be a better fit for you. If nothing else, for your own sanity.
Yo, dont be dissin ideas from 5 year olds. Malachai Nicolle was the 5 year old visionary behind "axe cop". Have any of you "idea guys" and "artists" written a commercially successful comic book and tv series starring Nick Offerman from age 5? Didnt think so.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_Cop
(And for the love of god, before anyone starts, my post is a joke)
Lol no it isn’t you muppet
You're a designer in a non-design field (advertising). You're like a trainer on a sports team.. you might help shape conditioning protocols but you will never call the plays. Move to IDEO or frog or similar, that's the design experience you're probably looking for.
Some sales roles are very similar... especially when you become a sales leader like in pharma
This happens in all jobs to some extent. There are always bullshit artists who make their way to the top. It's called office politics and it is everywhere. Pretty rampent in government offices thats for sure.
@CD1 yup no work. I know people that are CDs that think pulling screenshots off google is doing work
Op, ok so you mean no work to make the boards look designed. That I’ll agree with. But no work? I don’t think you’re appreciating what it takes to get to an idea.
@freelance hahah cool