So my pal Jason over at Little Red Bird, just did a blog post about how he spent an entire afternoon coming up with the perfect shade of blue for a client. Nerd alert! Although, this is coming from the girl who was the ONLY person on our entire branding team to choose the wrong shade of red in a vote on color selection (and apparently among designers there is a “wrong” shade) so take that assessment with a grain of salt. Perhaps this is why I feel a special kinship with the Tiny Art Director, a four-year old who has been providing her father with art assignments and insight for fully half of her life.
To wit, the piece entitled “Duck Biting Dinosaur,” found here:
The Brief: A dinosaur eating a baby, like last time
Artist Negotiation: How about something other than a dinosaur?
The Brief, Revised: A duck. A duck biting a dinosaur’s tail.
The Critique: I want a goat and a piggie
Job Status: Rejected
In related news, My Kid Could Paint That is an amazing documentary that you should immediately rent from your local library or nearest Netflix shipping facility. It features a pre-k artist and her meteoric rise to fame…or does it? Dum dum DUM! Mystery artist theater! It’s also a fascinating study in psychology, family relationships and the sunk-cost fallacy. Psychology, art and dramz! Oh, my!