Had lunch with the longest remaining designer at my previous agency. He finally had enough of all that last minute nonsense and tendered his resignation. Looks much relieved now, and I’m happy for him :D
It’s a bit ironic that about a year ago, it was at the same Subway outlet that I told him I was resigning. And now it was his turn to tell me about his resignation. It was also the same depressing Subway outlet that my previous business partner and I decided to call it quits. The damn place is actually quite depressing now.
On a happier note, chatting with him over design stuff, like the new Adobe CS5 suite, the features, just technical design stuff, it made me realize that I haven’t had such a conversation for a long, long time. I miss discussing design stuff with other designers. Like how to do certain cool things in Illustrator, a new design shortcut, fumbling over amazing packaging, trying to deconstruct how other designers came up with it. I miss this sort of interaction with other designers. Just being able to converse with someone else that has a design background, some how ignited the sleeping designer in me.
10 months as an in-house designer in a non-design company, I find myself now, slipping into a very comfortable zone of reactionary work flow. I take things as they come, and I feel myself losing the drive to work on new freelance projects even.
About a year ago I absolutely hated these sort of people. The people that only react to the circumstances around them, instead of being proactive, creating and innovating. It seems I’ve become the sort of person I despised so much in the past.
The worst part is not having another like-minded person to talk design to. I’m the only person in the entire building that knows how to use Photoshop, so I can’t help but feel isolated sometimes. The only topics that come up over lunch are work, holidays, events and other misc small talk that I don’t have any knowledge or experience in. I miss being able to fascinate over design things during lunch with other designers.
It makes me want to join a true blue design agency, just to be around like minded people, to be inspired, again.
u know its time like this that i suggest having a group of designer rather than 1. Be a leader of the team?
It’s an army of 1. What team?
then try to get more recruits?
Are you referring to my company or… what recruits!
lets do it all again haha. come also la
Wa i don’t mind man haha~
hehe.. update ur resume then shoot them an email? :D the boss IS looking for one more designer