illustrationaddict
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Hello! first time poster. I was hoping for some advice please. I've worked as an in-house designer for about 15 years now. I do the occasional freelance job, but am lucky in that I do have a main income.
A parent from my child's school approached me recently asking me to take on a logo and leaflet for them as a freelance job. TBH they were a bit pushy and I caved and agreed to do it. They brought a sketch of what they wanted to our first meet up. I took a photo, went away and redrew it on my laptop, trying to simplify it as it was quite busy. Anyway, we met up again, I showed them 4 versions of the logo, they seemed happy enough, but at home time came running up to me with an updated sketch, bringing back the detail and yet more details that I don't think add anything except fussiness and a rather juvenile colour scheme to a pretty grown up project. To try and be helpful I have spent most of my evening trying to polish the logo, but hate every aspect. I get what they are trying to do, they want a picture that encompasses every aspect of their project, but I think they are missing the point of a logo. It's not simple and is memorable for the wrong reasons. What should I do? Would you cut your loses? I have to see them at every pick up
A parent from my child's school approached me recently asking me to take on a logo and leaflet for them as a freelance job. TBH they were a bit pushy and I caved and agreed to do it. They brought a sketch of what they wanted to our first meet up. I took a photo, went away and redrew it on my laptop, trying to simplify it as it was quite busy. Anyway, we met up again, I showed them 4 versions of the logo, they seemed happy enough, but at home time came running up to me with an updated sketch, bringing back the detail and yet more details that I don't think add anything except fussiness and a rather juvenile colour scheme to a pretty grown up project. To try and be helpful I have spent most of my evening trying to polish the logo, but hate every aspect. I get what they are trying to do, they want a picture that encompasses every aspect of their project, but I think they are missing the point of a logo. It's not simple and is memorable for the wrong reasons. What should I do? Would you cut your loses? I have to see them at every pick up