Flod Meeting, September 2, 2009

Art & Anthropology, Inc

Jason Ontero

“The intrinsic desire to express complemented by the imperative to understand”

Jason Ontero believes that designers need to create work that’s relevant and beautiful and that they should always seek intelligent work and clients who are open for it.  Work will ebb and flow, but designers should surround themselves with people will make you better.

One thing I noticed about Jason is that he is willing to do anything, with client approval, (screen printing, hand cutting, etc.) to make an interesting design piece.  The print/design shop I work for gets angry when print jobs are odd sizes let alone partially made out of dog tags, etc.  I think that this difference definitely reveals who is actually more successful.  Jason Ontero is willing to do lots of different processes for the look, while my employer’s company is barely making it and barely tries to work outside the box to please a client.

Have no fear… “say yes to everything”

And figure the rest out later.

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