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- Salarrue11
- ⊙_⊙PhanLo
- what in thespl33nidoru
- If you know your shit, any app will do
*claps*grafician - Qué trabajazo, tio!maquito
- what is a W arbler?
and where is N ortheastern Canada?PonyBoy - Charlie Harper nodscannonball1978
- Fuck yeah. Yellow Rump reprezentbezoar
- I would love to watch a time lapse screen recording of thismaquito
- You can Torrent Illustrator, man.
Good job, respect!OBBTKN - Well done :Djagara
- Does Canva have gradient? I don't see any shape in their breasts, pretty flat. These are cool but are also kinda for-purchase-stock-l...canoe
- @canoe: You can be Velázquez using Paint. Let the kids play ;)OBBTKN
- Canva coming for Adobe Illustrator.utopian
- I wonder how much simpler this would have been in Illustrator. Good work though... but yikes.cotton
- sted7
blog
While interviewing designers I learned one important lesson: People who aren't very creative tend to talk about the importance of the jobs and clients in their portfolios rather than sharing details about the work they've done and the ideas they've put into them.
- "pitch or campaign"sted
- Noticed the same thing over the years.Continuity
- whats the ratio ?neverscared
- + do u give these suckers a bold lecture or let them pass by not carrying about the fundamentals of the discipline ?neverscared
- which would make anyone a sucker too....neverscared
- Neither. You listen, write notes, thank them for their time in talking to you, and move on to the next candidate without further consideration. Easy.Continuity
- too easy... seeing what is fatal for the discipline and keep quiet makes u complicit for not improving the designer and the collective......hire... or not...neverscared
- and then coming here and sharing insights u dont like... classic cowardice backstabbing behaviour...neverscared
- Counterpoint to this: often it is a recruiter/HR who is interviewing. You’ll never see eyes glaze over faster than starting to talk about technical/creative.monNom
- But you drop a name they recognize and associate to quality and you are golden.
Probably the same with well known schools. In summary, know you audience.monNom - "In summary, know you audience.
monNom"
Yurp. This.Continuity - "and then coming here and sharing insights u dont like... classic cowardice backstabbing behaviour..." Just wtf are you talking about?Continuity
- The big brands and experience gets you in the door, the work you did gets you the job.canoe
- "designers"OBBTKN
- I know past CDs that would judge ONLY logo work. "If they can tell a story in a 2 inch square then they can tell a story anywhere". Believdat!canoe
- @neverscared I actually did that once, and we became good friends few months later when a common friend invited me to a party and the guy was there.sted
- https://www.behance.…sted
- @canoe True. I have Nike in my portfolio and that opened every single door in Budapest, but people were mostly interested in how we landed that client.sted
- the inside -- u share it with us here that they suck as creatives coz they only talk the importance of the job but not the other stuff.. and u dont tell it toneverscared
- them but u tell us here.... thats classic badmouthing behind the back...not enough guts to open the mouth when its at...neverscared
- the loudest in the room is the weakest.microkorg
- what? This is something I tell people outside the scope of work. This is my own conclusion based on my experience. It isn't specific to one person.sted
- Also it would be really weird to educate the candidates, not to mention that they are the ones who apply for a job...sted
- As a matter of fact I shared this with a lot of juniors few years back during the Portfolio Nights in Budapest.sted
- few years back-> decade agosted
- its never wierd to educate..... except u are an anti-enlightment hustler...neverscared
- the loudest is the weakest...but the silent folk who doesnt give proper advise is also pretty puny...neverscared
- if u dont care u dont care... highly likely its better a.i takes over the whole process anyhow, if only half baked folks like cont. are in auhtority..neverscared
- @neverscared there are various reasons why we don't share personal opinions during interviews.sted
- Agree with sted. Sharing personal opinions about an candidate is an absolute no-go in an interview.
You want to get sued? Because that's how you get sued.Continuity - I've interviewed dozens of designers, and you don't criticize how they talk about their work during an interview. THat's crazy.monospaced
- PhanLo10
- FlolNairn
- cheryl cole?MrT
- lolContinuity
- Err Mah Gerrrd!Akagiyama
- Gardener8
- https://www.youtube.…Gardener
- Rest in Powercanoe
- ah, shit.Nairn
- sted2
Video Games...
now that is going to be hot as fuck.- Splatoon + Deadlink + The Finals?NBQ00
- This new extraction shooter was a Mac exclusive in the mid 90s, and a shitload of fun.MrT
- MrT, I played this shit out of the originals back in the day on my Performa 550. Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal were amazing!elahon
- Yes elahon! You could stand in the middle of the arena level (#1 or #2?) and launch rockets at the gaps as people ran round. So so good.MrT
- NBQ008
Grafician Hate Why?
Will you two invite us to your wedding?
- canoe4
Grafician Hate Why?
There’s so much to unpack from your bag of bullshit.
“Again, tell us when was your last job? When were you Chief Marketing Officer? Where?" - grafician
Titles only seem to matter to you when you're trying to discredit someone else’s. Ironically, you’re the same guy who said 'titles are useless' five comments ago. Make up your mind.
"Advertising industry is not a T business, you confuse terms and act like an idiot again." - grafician
No, I’m using accurate terminology from industry reports and global market tracking. You’re the one shouting vague insults while Googling market cap numbers out of context like that proves your authority. Aren’t you the one that just said “nobody will visit the states” even though 700,000 people visited last month from the EU alone. FLOL!
"Publicis Groupe has a market cap of $22.28B..." - grafician
You just proved my point: market cap ≠ total industry size. Publicis isn’t the ad industry — it’s one player. Meanwhile, global advertising spend crossed $1 trillion in 2024. That’s what fuels the very UX products you work on.
"Do you know Publicis?" - grafician
Yes. I've actually worked with global agencies. But name-dropping agencies you haven’t worked at doesn’t make your app designs more valuable.
"I bet you worked all your life at some local company from junior to CMO..." - grafician
I love that you need that to be true so badly—like convincing yourself I only ever worked at some local agency somehow makes you taller. But the truth is, I’ve held design and creative positions, built campaigns, and shipped brand work seen by millions, think Chrysler, Jeep, AMEX, SEGA, NVIDIA for starters.
I created a post directly at you, with all of the brands I’ve worked for, and you responded, but because you can’t handle the truth I have to repeat myself again. If labeling me a loser and that I never worked at BBDO is what you require, then create your own little delusional freaky world.
"Post dumb charts to win dumb prizes." - grafician
AI generated that chart based on category traits, but it hit a nerve because even a bot can sense when someone’s compensating.
"What you're confusing is revenue from Google Ads, Facebook Ads... that go to tech companies!" - grafician
You’re literally describing media spend—the very thing that fuels the entire advertising ecosystem. You don’t seem to realize that whether it goes to Google or WPP or a content publisher, it’s still advertising. It's still the engine that drives awareness, installs, signups, and UX engagement.
"Don't confuse media budgets with advertising revenues." - grafician
I’m not. But you clearly confuse your role in the digital product team with dominance over the entire creative economy. UX is crucial. But without advertising, nobody shows up to your app. Nobody downloads it. Nobody even knows it exists. UX is the experience. Advertising is the invitation. Learn the difference.
You lie, you twist facts, you cherry-pick data to fit whatever narrative keeps your ego intact. You call people beneath you while offering nothing but sarcasm. You attack, then play the victim. You rant, then pretend you're above it all. And the second you’re called out, you pivot or disappear.
And now, you’re not part of the conversation anymore. You’re just background noise we’ve all learned to tune out. The only thing you have going for you around here is a thread that someone made because nobody likes you.
I’m done responding. I’m walking away because talking with you is like arguing with a malfunctioning pop-up ad: loud, misleading, and best ignored. The tech support for your ego has expired.
- I asked you directly were you worked.
If you can't tell us that then shut up.grafician - You started with the career boasting
Now go through and tell usgrafician - You said you came up from junior to CMO at some agency? Where? When?
What agency?grafician - Also you reek of insecurity coming back to this thread to post even more bullshit
You're hilariousgrafician - Your list of clients was half name dropping and more than half some anonymous local clientsgrafician
- < all this I can disprove in 5 mins, it just shows you have no clue like I said about Advertising and product designgrafician
- < ALL talk, nothing to show forgrafician
- https://www.youtube.…canoe
- Go figure, you don't know BBDO. HA!canoe
- Aaah so you can't post any job
Then tell people I lie :)))grafician - Are you working now?
What are you working on?
Post some recent workgrafician - You work at BBDO?
Now?
On what account?
Show us some ads or some shitgrafician - BBDO is a network, so in what city or local agency worked with BBDO?
Michigan somewhere? Where Detroit?
Probably Detroit as you mention car brandsgrafician - BBDO was done in Detroit as Chrysler went bankrupt no?
You worked there? It was 2009 or 2010grafician - Ah yes the famous Troy office
So any other agencies?
Jobs?
you mention all this experiencegrafician - No more answerrs?
Silence?
Nothing to add anymore?grafician - Read the last line of the post.canoe
- You're DONE alright :))grafician
- Pa paaagrafician
- STOP
TALKING
TO
YOUR
SELF
AND
FUCK
OFF_me_
- I asked you directly were you worked.
- canoe4
Grafician Hate Why?
"Anything else doesn't matter, we work for our clients not for the opinions of other designers..."
"No, not really, opinions of other designers after the work was completed and shipped are moot :))"
- grafician ...on one side of his cheek...
...and then on the other side of his cheek:
"Aaah so you can't post any job
Then tell people I lie :)))
grafician
Are you working now?What are you working on?
Post some recent work
grafician
You work at BBDO?Now?
On what account?
Show us some ads or some shit
grafician
BBDO is a network, so in what city or local agency worked with BBDO?Michigan somewhere? Where Detroit?
Probably Detroit as you mention car brands
grafician
BBDO was done in Detroit as Chrysler went bankrupt no?You worked there? It was 2009 or 2010
grafician
Ah yes the famous Troy officeSo any other agencies?
Jobs?
you mention all this experience
grafician
No more answerrs?Silence?
Nothing to add anymore?
graficianHe lives in a weird world where he says "Bitch, Get me some coffee" and doesn't think there's spit in his mug when it lands at the table.
You're the last person in the world I would go out of my way to impress. PLUS, I know you're not looking for clarity on my career and work, you're just looking to get some ammo
I put up a campaign I worked on a few years ago and you went ape shit despite liking my awesome font choice. (I only say it's awesome because you approved of it, so it MUST be awesome). But I thought I was the "font ignorant dork"?
Go fuck yourself. The tech support for your ego has expired.
- Mate on those banners for amazon shop you got trashed by robo for not even using a grid :))grafician
- This is not about impressing, this is about having a big mouth and nothing to back it upgrafician
- I GAVE YOU the font link because I knew the font by eye :)))
I am not a font dork, all the designers I know KNOW fonts!grafician - I have a designer friend with an entire FONT SHOP
I bet you can't even difference Arial from Helveticagrafician - You mentioned "craft" but you still ask us about fontsgrafician
- Design is 90% typography, if your skills are not up to that, how are you even a designer mate?grafician
- I have now more confidence in robo's design skills than you being a big shot in Advertising :))grafician
- Go here and read the comments
https://www.qbn.com/…
to see my adv experience lolgrafician - If you have other "campaigns" POST THEM :))
I'm posting my FIRST banners for yougrafician - STOP
TALKING
TO
YOUR
SELF
AND
FUCK
OFF_me_
- jagara7
blog
Dipping in and out of random QBN drama without bothering to understand it is funny. Jeez. I roll my eyes, and I don't even have a life myself.
- exactly, #metoo.renderedred
- Tossing shade while pretending not to. Love it!canoe
- Who's pretending anything? Shade! Shade!!jagara
- Also, most people throw the shade.jagara
- at least katy perry is going to space...neverscared
- Yeah. I'm not loving it.webazoot
- There's one actor that has been trolling QBN and a few members for a long, long time. The response was inevitable.canoe
- So much wasted energy.BonSeff
- #metoopango
- +1 Boncanoe
- PhanLo2
Suggest a bad movie
Not sure if it was meant to be a comedy or a serious film.
Plot was thin, even for a Statham movie
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- canoe-1
blog
Last week was a doozy on QBN, but I walked away with some wins—and even a few lyrics.
One unexpected outcome: I got curious.
After seeing grafician repeatedly belittle my work (and others’) while claiming top-tier status because he works in “product design”—i.e., wireframes and interface design—I started thinking about the creative food chain.
Who really sits at the top when you factor in everything creativity demands—imagination, intelligence, technical skill, logic, and raw, unteachable talent?
As expected: Creative Directors and campaign builders, the ones leading strategy, writing, art direction, and execution, came out on top.
Those designing interface icons... didn’t. Go figure.
But don’t read this as ego. There’s brilliance across all creative services: design, development, advertising, marketing. Different beasts. Different battles. And with my "hand on the bible", I don't look down on anyone because they enjoy making catalogs or doing SEO.
But some people do. The insecure-in-their-own-skin types.
This is for them. The big egos and their subjective fantasies.
May their clients forever ask to... “make it bigger.”
- As you can imagine, AI came up with the report.canoe
- Interesting, what is the source of this table?Salarrue
- Well the column and row headers are all me, the scores are research from AI and its "fair judgment". It took the bot like 5 minutes to make the spreadsheet.canoe
- Which is like 8 hours in human time and 43.5 hours in dog years. I don't know man, take it for what it's worth, I don't think this is hard science.canoe
- I do UX/UI so I am top 5. You do what? Art direction and copywriting? You under. Also Advertisement design meaning banners is almost at the bottom.
You point?grafician - You made a top for yourself to feel empowered now?
How insecure can you be dude
Oh mangrafician - I also do branding for the startups I work with, social media designs, website, apps, the entire flow.
So I pretty much own half this chart.grafician - Also the highest paid jobs are in tech, not in Advertising. Advertising and the agency model is dying slowly...grafician
- I have former colleagues Senior Art directors transitioning to UX jobs 5 years ago. I was even way earlier.
The future is in UX not in Advertising and bannersgrafician - But you do you, do whatever makes you happy dudegrafician
- Triggered? You sound super defensive.canoe
- Chief Marketing Officer - my most recent job title isn't even on there. And I didn't PUT anything on there. AI made this.canoe
- Actually App development full stack should be top 5 alsografician
- When did you hold that title?
What "most recent" means in your context?
Do you have your own studio?
Do you work now?grafician - Sure UX is growing, but Advertising is a 1 trillion dollar market, compared to not even 4 billion in UX.canoe
- Can you please start a "bet against me" thread so you can put your money where your mouth is?canoe
- Triggered? Is you that hating me and trying to make a big deal out of anything I write around here :))
I was telling you the reality of work rngrafician - Last Chief Marketing Officer I worked with was at Holcim Group - the lady didn't knew pretty much anything more than google ads So titles are uselessgrafician
- < this chart is useless btw, it mixes skills with actual job titles
But whatever, you keep pushing and posting for no reason around heregrafician - Typical grafician. Believes AI when he wants to. Titles are only useful when it's his title. Judges everything off of one experience...canoe
- ...just like a racist MAGA hat wearing uncle at Thanksgiving.canoe
- So many words, such little substance. STOP THE NOISE!canoe
- LOL you're going nuts again on your own postsgrafician
- Again, tell us when was your last job?
When were you Chief Marketing Officer?
Where?grafician - Advertising industry is not a T business, you confuse terms and act like an idiot again.
Here:grafician - Publicis Groupe has a market cap or net worth of $22.28 billion as of April 4, 2025. Its market cap has decreased by -17.09% in one year.grafician
- Do you know Publicis?
Do you anything about the actual Advertising market?
I bet you worked all your life at some local company from junior to CMO as you sagrafician - as you say and didn't experience real advertising agencies in your lifegrafician
- But sure, post dumb charts, to win dumb prizesgrafician
- What you're confusing is revenue from google ads, facebook ads, amazon ads, etc. that go to those TECH COMPANIES!
The actual Advertising industry is not THATgrafician - Also don't confuse MEDIA BUDGETS with ADVERTISING REVENUES :))grafician
- Graf I doubt you’ve stepped foot inside a real big boy ad agency in your life.monospaced
- I put YEARS in at DDBSF and McCann moving from production to ACD. What about you?monospaced
- I worked with McCann, Saatchi, DDB, Wunderman and a dozen local ones, practically almost the entire market.
Our juniors at Saatchi are now Group Chiefs in EUgrafician - Never worked with Leo and that group, the quality was always better at McCanngrafician
- I still have people in the actual industry all over Europe, but most creatives switched to tech and fintechs and doing UXgrafician
- The budgets are way lower these days in Advertising. and in Product/UX a single startup can raise $10M series A or B easily in a couple monthsgrafician
- I do apps and all that because that is the most challenging field and it has been for years.
Advertising is dead. Now everybody wins CAnnes and Effies easilygrafician - And whoever thinks we just do buttons and icons in Product and UX they're dumber than rocksgrafician
- I can talk about Advertising with you all day everyday, but I doubt you can say two words about working with digital experiences and productsgrafician
- Again, a solid mix of condescension and ignorance. Your field is not some amazing new mystery, and advertising is anything but dead.monospaced
- Any good creative in the field knows about product design, and the digital journey. We also know that isn’t the start and end of design, nor the most challenginmonospaced
- 1st What you guys call product design is actually Digital Product Design.
2nd It is much more than just wire-frames and interface design.sted - Graf prefers "product design" because it sounds bigger... just like he tries to make it sound more important than other "creative disciplines".canoe
- It's a requirement for his ego.canoe
- canoe the more you post, the more people can see how ignorant poser you are...but do continue with your delusionsgrafician
- monospaced digital products are more complex and require continuous iteration vs. an ad campaign that is dead after a limited time (depending on media budgets)grafician
- But if you consider Advertising to be more challenging, you're probably not that good at it and don't really get the depth of the field.grafician
- All my senior colleagues in Advertising that tried and switched to UX said that is way more challenging that making campaigns.
The learning curve is very longgrafician - But sure, stick to your silly conclusions thinking you always know better and deny anything I'm saying just because you dislike megrafician
- I would love to see you guys how you plan and design a simple app, just a task manager or or a weather app - you will quickly learn is very hard to even map outgrafician
- Ha! Just noticed @sted posted a comment
And yes, the man is right! Thanks for clarificationgrafician - Again I know all about product and experience design. Your incessant need to shitsplain this like it’s some mystery is so annoying.monospaced
- I did a lot of this before it was even called experience design, and I keep up with it even though it isn’t my bread and butter.monospaced
- Obviously as the lead art director I have to work with product and experience people to make sure they stay aligned with the brand etc. I’m fully awaremonospaced
- I wouldn’t say one is more challenging, though. One is more technical, and one is more vibe based. Anyone good can handle both in some capacity.monospaced
- I just can’t stand when app experience designers act like that is the pinnacle and end of design, or as if the brand strategy isn’t their umbrella.monospaced
- So maybe drop YOUR silly conclusions about what seasoned ad and brand designers do and how it relates to your work. Please.monospaced
- For most brands, a digital product isn’t their main product. It’s just a byproduct.monospaced
- you all need to have an gang bang together or something.ephix
- palimpsest11
Grafician Hate Why?
This is me wiping my ass with your post, grafician.
Play the tape back, Jamie:
You asked that I post some of work which I did even though you hadn't shown us yours. Since the coding work I did for QBN was not valid in your eyes I posted a logo project. But that wasn't enough so you went searching for work of mine on the web and posted a video you found on YouTube thinking you had made some great discovery. It was an AI video I had already posted here. The whole thing went over your head.I've always thought you were a piece of shit and have always called you out on it. As much as you keep flipping the story the posts are there for all to see.
Fuck off.
- +1canoe
- hustle hustle hustle!pango
- Jesusmaquito
- This.Continuity
- graf is like a tiger he wont fuck off...neverscared
- while the rest of us are butterflies...neverscared
- like no onepango
- exactly..neverscared
- utopian8
- Amazing!instrmntl
- TacocatAkagiyama
- If this is slop, I'm here for it!Continuity
- More slop, less cowbell!canoe
- _niko5
RIP of the day
Ted Kotcheff
Didn't know he was Canadian.Directed two classics that couldn't be more different from each other.
- A highly underrated director.utopian
- Been a while since I saw this but remember it being quite the journey... https://www.youtube.…webazoot
- This made me think Stallone died for a second.CyBrainX
- Beeswax3
FUCK ADOBE!
Wanted to create a video for social media, really simple stuff, cut, edit, intro, outro. Spent 4 hours on After Effects' convoluted interface and saved versions. They are all corrupt. AE can't open those files, crashes and warns me about cache even though half my drive is available.
Bought Capcut for 10 bucks a month. In half an hour my video is ready with fucking tons more AI powered options.
Really fuck Adobe, I'm gonna pull the plug on suite.
Do you know if we can still use AI generation if we have cracked PS?
- I think out of all the app, you can use Canva!
It exports mp4grafician - Capcut might be banned with the rest of tiktok so that app is pretty uncertain, but indeed good for quick videosgrafician
- < no no AI gen in Ps without subscriptiongrafician
- < So you tried driving, it didn't happen easily so you're gonna buy a bicycle instead?Projectile
- I think out of all the app, you can use Canva!
- ok_not_ok1
- green ones too?AQUTE
- No wonder he always loses to Blondiehotroddy
- Until next time.sted
- https://media.tenor.…maquito
- he-man is a white supremacist. there, i said it.sarahfailin
- palimpsest10
- Running 15 agencies by now.palimpsest
- Landed Acme as a client... at all 15 agencies.canoe
- Got tired of chasing the Roadrunner and joined us mortals in product design.
Made shit work.
Went for beers with the boys.palimpsest - Won the Stable Genius Awardcanoe
- to think i once offered him a job ; )_me_
- Uhm you're the haters :))
I couldn't care lessgrafician - Also @palimp don't YOU follow me on insta?
Yeah I noticed so all this "drama" around here like a big charade what's the purpose? :)))grafician - So why bother with all this crap?
sigh *facepalm*grafician - we all should....neverscared
- Yeahgrafician
- not if u wanna excel in nihilism...than keep that hate rocket on hauptstufe....neverscared
- Maybe Moderator wants to delete this thread as it's pretty useless?grafician
- hate can move mountains https://www.getyarn.…neverscared
- Pa paaagrafician
- canoe5
- keep it probable...and you are fine..neverscared
- If one person calls you a dick, then no big deal, but if most of QBN does then maybe listen up.Ianbolton
- the tiger cant listen...he roars too loud...neverscared
