The Craigslist Stimulus Plan
Craigslist can really be a circus of laughs when scanning job postings in the Art/Design/Media section. You will find scads of potential employers looking for complicated work that takes dozens upon dozens of hours to complete, for 8 bucks and hour or a whopping flat rate of $150. The temptation for me is to laugh and point, but what the H is really going on when business people completely fail to understand that goods and services cost money? Have they not paid vendors for supplies, attorneys for contracts or CPAs for tax filings? Don’t said business people want others to pay them for their goods and services?
My initial urge to howl at those unbelievable postings is always overtaken by offense. Did professionals like myself go to college and spend years cutting our teeth in the industry to be offered what wouldn’t cover the cost of a transit pass in most big cities? Judging from the responses peppered throughout the job listings, people like me are NOT laughing. The screenshot I’ve embedded here is the most gentle response to the lowball job posters I’ve EVER seen on Craigslist.
Honestly, Craigslist job posters, stimulate the economy by paying what goods and services actually cost.
MOCHIMAD Mastheads
Self-branding is often a stone in any creative professional’s career. I am no different. I really don’t have trouble coming up with ideas. I just drop a bucket into the well and pull the ideas out. Deciding which one to roll with and make the commitment to is a different process—the “stone in the shoe” part.
Photography has always been and always will be a driving expression of my ideas. It’s the primary way I flex the muscles that every creative person needs to exercise to stay sane and/or to stay in the design business. The photographic mastheads that first meet your eye at the top of the page here are going to rotate through a dozen or so that I made up in advance.
I decided to do this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we have lots of them and they all look great; and secondly, I simply get tired of looking at the same one for too long. It’s part of the creative professional’s curse. Constantly re-imagining, revisualizing. Maybe that’s a major reason why we do what we do all day long, and often into the wee hours.
Therefore, I will change the masthead every week or two—but I can’t promise I won’t change it more than once a day either—so maybe you’ll take interest and decide to come back ever so often to have a gander.
MOCHIMAD Site Launches
Sue Lott and Matthew Richards are available for any of the following services in Detroit, Chicago or Madison.
Strategy
Wire-framing, Navigation, User Interface and Information Architecture; Storyboarding; Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM); Copy-writing for SEO; Blogging for SEO; Content Management System (CMS) Training; Branding Strategy, Design and Implementation; Special consideration given to artists, writers, musicians and bands for public image strategy
Presentation Media Design
Presentation Media Design for training, speaker support, trade shows, proposals, advertising and marketing using PowerPoint or Adobe Flash; show set-ups and executions
Web & Interactive Design
Page and Interface Design; Blog Design and Implementation; Asset Development; Flash Interface, Environments and Banners; Flash Character Animation; Motion Graphics for Web, Video and Broadcast; Special consideration for website design packages for artists, musicians and bands; WordPress, Actionscript, CSS, PHP, AJAX, Java, HTML
Print Design
Graphic design from strategic conception through production; Traditional and Digital Illustration; Digital Imaging; Copy-writing
Photography and Imaging
25 years of photography experience, including traditional film, medium format and digital applications; Exclusive contributor to iStockphoto.com; Commissioned assignments available on work-for-hire basis; Natural and studio lighting; Photo shoot coordination and execution; Models, make-up artists, assistants and locations sourcing available; Asset management; Expert in photo compositing, retouching utilizing the latest techniques; Special consideration given to photography for artists, writers, musicians and bands; Lifestyle, beauty, creative and conceptual image specialists
