Deciding designs

It’s the curse of a job well done.

Before leaving for NY I spent roughly a gazillion hours (give or take a trillion) preparing the Incidencia Democratica homepage for its re-launch. Quique’s daughter Elisa, a graphic designer working in Mexico City, had created a gorgeous site to replace the former… mmm… less-than-gorgeous site. My job was to bring it to life.

Along with that came a redesign of our logo, and a change in the layout of the Daily Report. Afterwards, I foolishly thought that I had finally “finished”.

Not so, not so.

Yesterday Quique asked me to redesign the email summary that accompanies the Daily Report. It is fairly ghastly looking right now, and definitely detracts from the quality content of the Report itself.

So I’ve been working on a proposal that I hope to finish tomorrow. I’ll post the before and after shots in the photograph section. I’d love your feedback, applause, and never-ending praise. I will, however, also reluctantly accept your critiques and criticisms.

No, really… let me know what you think! I’m planning on “going public” next Monday, so there’s plenty of time to tweak the design. With all the brilliant minds out there (no need to be modest) we should be able to create something stunning!

Then again, maybe that’s not such a good idea. It’s like the excuse given by people who don’t vote for politicians: “it only encourages 'em!”