ec109685 4 hours ago

It’s quite the saga, including the designer putting in their portfolio that they actually completed the project as they were ghosting their client: https://x.com/Shpigford/status/1807802947394588842

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  • dgfitz 3 hours ago

    $5.00/image. The math on that is absurd unless the artist is cranking what, 20 images an hour?

    Feels like they thought they had an edge, probably an LLM, and it didn’t work out.

    Also feels like it took $70k to generate 14,000 requirements, or the SOW is actually shit and this is all a disaster.

    Disclaimer: I don’t read twitter, if all this was spelled out in the link I apologize

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    • spoonfeeder006 2 hours ago

      If you already starting from an existing set from publicly available sources, and you just need to standardize them amongst each other for consistency, then I can see how that would be kinda reasonable, though I'm no designer myself

      perhaps things like giving them a consistent center or consistent brightness/contrast could be done programmatically as well, and maybe there are end user tools to do those things en masse

      other tweaks such as selecting between subtle variations found in each icon, or adding some artistic modification, shadow mimicking, etc... can possibly be done, to align the set to a certain pre-defined theme now that I think about it more

      seems like a pretty interesting kinda project actually

      > Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being and are conducive to its exaltation ~Baha'u'llah

      the designer who chose to instead run with the money probably got insecure or bored, but they would probably be happier if they learned to appreciate the creative process more

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  • spoonfeeder006 4 hours ago

    So what, he was asking the designer to re-create already existing icons? Or brand new icons for each stock?

    Thats insanely fucked up either way of the designer leading them on like that or to ultimately cheat someone

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    • cyral 3 hours ago

      Re-create existing icons, since a lot of these icon packs are not very standardized (e.g. some icons are full logos, some are actual icons, some have borders, some have backgrounds, etc).

      Here is a good tweet from another company on why they made their own logos: https://mobile.x.com/tcosta_co/status/1808174493170344345

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