today I'm gonna share with you guys the biggest mistake that I've ever made in
graphic design in combination with three stories roughly relating to graphic
design to happen to me in my life also today well Turia sponge in today's video
and I'm gonna show you guys exactly what well tree is and how it can benefit your
health your life and your graphic design workflow so stick around until the end
to hear about the watery app and improve your fitness and your well-being
what is that people welcome back to tutor graphics home of graph design
content right here on YouTube so today three stories that happen to me
in my life i roughly revolve around graphic design and what i actually
learned from those situations that happen to me also remember at the very
end of the video i'm gonna show you guys the world tree wellness app which will
really really help your fitness and your overall well-being in your life so the
first story in today's video took place in 2010 basically I finished University
in college I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life but I did know one
thing I didn't want to stay where I was living at the moment and that was my
home country of England now I was kind of like getting into Buddhism and
meditation and the Zen life and all that kind of stuff so I Google says the
highest density of Buddhist of any country and Thailand and Sri Lanka
popped up and so I decided to go to Thailand pretty much on a whim and I
took one friend with me I have to remember that I was 20 at this stage I
didn't have a clue what I was doing I'd never been to Southeast Asia before so I
had no clue what was in store for me when I actually touched down in Thailand
at the time I couldn't speak any Thai at all and my friend could speak a tiny bit
if he did never quite holiday but he basically didn't know anything as well
we were just too dumb English guys jumping into a situation headfirst I'm
not having a good home what was going on at this point I started kind of
freelancing using websites such as people but Howard calm and had all of my
work from University and College on my laptop now this is the point of the
story I didn't back up my work anywhere else apart from my laptop so after a few
weeks of moving around to different places and Thailand it's getting used to
the culture we set it down in the town in the middle region of Thailand
just south of Bangkok and a carom board day was exactly but I had my laptop with
me my rucksack and I was walking around town just exploring stuff like that so I
managed to muster up quite a thirst and so I stopped at Burger King just to get
something to drink now this burger in particular has a few
tables and chairs outside of the Burger King I sat down with my drink and I was
by myself and I was on my laptop so of course I'm in a foreign country a
third-world country I'm just sitting outside of Burger King on my Apple
MacBook and then suddenly two middle-aged women sat on the table in
front of me turned around and started to engage in
conversation like I said I'm 20 I'm really naive and to be honest I was
really stupid about that as well I didn't have a clue what was gonna happen
if I did I wouldn't stay sitting there for sure
so one of these women explained that their niece was gonna come and join them
with her friend and that was her birthday so they were celebrating it and
they wanted to go somewhere I remember her niece and a friend coming
but they were like 18 20 something like that but after that things kind of got a
bit hazy and to cut a long story short I woke up in a hotel when I wasn't even a
hotel it was just like a guest house my Apple MacBook was gone completely gone
and my wallet I used to have a wallet you know but there was an implant in it
so they were kind enough to leave him my wallet and also my cards but then when
he was gone they were gone my laptop was gone and more importantly all of my work
was gone I figure I lost around 95 percent of my work at that point which
as a designer you probably can understand how that feels
and of course it's my own fault I was naive I figured they drugged me or
something because for the next few days I was like a zombie I was completely out
of it and I managed to kind of like let go of losing my laptop and the money
quite easily but the work and I really need good at me and taught me a lesson
that is to always back up your work in more than two locations so now I have a
two external hard drives and I also use Dropbox for a lot of my stuff as well so
Story number two this takes place actually backing University and if
you've actually been on a graphic design course in university or college you
might have had to work in teams on a project now we were given a brief that
was actually for a real client in the town and we had to design a poster
promoting the use of CCTV cameras in the town area now I think we were in about
three or four different Gribbs and I was in a group of five people now this
project would've run every two weeks and me and my team were really getting into
it we were brainstorming ideas all these different ways to competence Ellucian
but in the end we decided that one person would do some sketching one
person would do the layout one person would focus on typography and that's how
we operated on this project now as the project came to an end
we were really confident you know my team was like you're looking I designed
all the time like wow we've actually designed this this is amazing I can't
believe it and by the way they win they would have their poster put up around
town so it was a big deal now we're a graphic design students and of course
you want your work to be seen and you wanted to be everywhere well anyway I
remember my friend he was like he was 100 percent sure that we were gonna win
if he was he was walking around so confident like you know we're gonna take
this isn't her bag we won it so it came to the actual final day to hand in the
projects and we had to wait for the client which was actually the council to
town to get back to us to tell us which design was actually gonna be used if any
so the big day came when we were going to find out whose design was gonna be
chosen of course my team is sitting there like
you've got this in the bag it's a shoo-in you know it's a done deal and a
different team won I was actually ok with this you know it was of course it
wasn't it wasn't too bad our design was still really good and we got a good
grade on it but then we looked at their design I don't know if you can remember
this guys but like the old Apple iPod verse where you have like a silhouette
of a person dancing and it's just like really vibrant bold colors this team
literally took that concept and pull it onto their design just using like a
vibrant block colors and silhouettes and that got them the win I got then a
design on the posters so I guess the moral of that story is never to be too
confident on your work of course confidence goes a long way and it's
really useful but don't be too confident and also the most intricate and detailed
design isn't always the one that wins simplicity does have a huge hold on what
works and what doesn't work in the design world the case of the third and
final story happened around a year or two after I got drugged on my laptop was
darlin now as freelancing quite hard at this stage you know I was hustling I was
getting clients quite often I was really chuffed myself because my portfolio was
getting back up there since I lost everything and in fact I think I'm
losing everything might have been a blessing in disguise because he gave you
the chance opportunity to completely reshape and rebuild my sword scrap
designer in portfolio terms but anyway I got this client from people power calm
who wanted a Luger design for a radio station in Canada I believe the price
tag for this was $280 which is quite a lot even for now
that's quite a nice post out for a logo design but back then I was completely
chuffed you know I was over the moon like wow but this person decided to
negotiate the deal outside of any freelancing website again I was naive I
was didn't know any better I didn't even ask or negotiate a deposit or any kind
of contract or anything like that I just I guess I just saw the money and just
went to it thinking ah nobody's gonna do me wrong nobody's gonna cheat me out of
money everybody in the world is a good person and so I carried on designing in
the glow go I spent a good like week or maybe we can have one coming up with
concepts reworking his concepts and you know refining everything for the client
and I think I even sent like the final design to him before having any money
sent my way I how stupid can you get I sent him a design the final design and
then he he went silent you know there was nothing from him didn't hear a
single word no messages no interaction nothing that's when I started to worry I
spent a lot of time on this I'll miss Luca design he'd finally message back
saying oh I'm gonna have all the money up for you in a couple of weeks it's
okay don't worry didn't write I knew what was going on this stage I knew what
was gonna happen so basically I had to cut my losses and run with my tail
between my legs because yeah I got hurt pretty badly on that one it's a lesson
learn and for a lot of my life I've had to learn stuff the hard way and this is
no exception I'm sure many people have made this
mistake in graphic design and there are people out there who will con you he
will take your money people out they didn't care about you for a time so
beware of people like that because they do exist always get a contract or a
deposit up front before you start doing any work at all I always take 50%
deposit on any designs that make these days now I'm going to show you guys the
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battery today so there were three stories that
happened to me and loosely based around graphic design let me know what you guys
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