The Worst Kind of Project
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a designer? A project that’s designed — but never realized.
You invest everything: your expertise, your time, your focus. Not just the hours spent working, but the ones spent thinking — shaping, refining, imagining. You build expectations, both your own and your client’s. And then, for one reason or another, the project never sees the light of day. It isn’t launched, published, or produced. Something happens — and the reasons no longer matter. What remains is pure frustration.
Sometimes it’s our fault. Most of the time, it isn’t. The work exists — the concept is strong, the vision clear, the potential undeniable. Yet it remains on a desk or buried in a folder — a prototype, a draft, or worse, nothing at all.
Perhaps that’s why I’ve learned to avoid pitches whenever possible. They often drain creative energy before a project even begins. In advertising, they might be a necessary evil. But in design, tere is no palce for them.
Please — don’t do this to designers. Respect their work.
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