Do YOU OUTSOURCE YOUR DESIGN WORK?

[Sergio_TeenBoys]

I always outsource my design, it saves my time for more important things.

[Useless]

It's only outsourcing if you have a designer on your payroll. Otherwise, it's just hiring someone to do the job. Do I outsource my trash removal? No. I pay some grubby schmuck with an old pick-up truck to come once a week to empty my garbage cans into the Hudson river. When my car breaks down, do I oursource the repairs? No, I hire some greasy prick to overcharge me and fix the wrong fucking thing. But that's not outsourcing the work. Outsourcing, in the traditional sense, implies cutting costs by having some other firm do work that your own firm COULD do, but at a greater cost.

So the question is, do you hire a full time talented dedicated designer of your choosing to do all of your design work or do you contract one of those grahpic design sweat shops in Eastern Mongolia and hope to hell that some motherfucker amongst them can fit your project into their busy schedule of $5 blowjobs and $10 sucky-fuckies?

[Mattinblack]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

contract one of those grahpic design sweat shops in Eastern Mongolia and hope to hell that some motherfucker amongst them can fit your project into their busy schedule of $5 blowjobs and $10 sucky-fuckies?

I would like to take exception to that remark... first of all I am located in London and second I charge considerably more than $5 for a blowjob and my rates for Sucky-Fuckies would drain more than ya Dick. Seriously not everybody overcharges. I charge $20 an hour for 'grunt work' ie HTML and graphics but $40 an hour for software (CGI Javascript etc) which is not overcharging compared to a garage or your accountant...LMAO

[webgurl]

I paid for some really damn ugly amateur designs oh brother waste of
money becareful who u choose even if they show you sample
design work or if they post them on boards sometimes
they don't appear to look like them at all .
This was not from outsource company

[Mattinblack]

Originally Posted by webgurl

I paid for some really damn ugly amateur designs oh brother waste of
money becareful who u choose even if they show you sample
design work or if they post them on boards sometimes
they don't appear to look like them at all .
This was not from outsource company

Solution is quite simply to give them a couple of projects where you wont pay if you dont like what they do. They keep the html on their site till you are happy with it. Then you pay and take delivery via email. Have done this for several clients.