I know The Secret.
No, not that Secret, which I think is more of a con than a real secret. No, I’m talking about The Graphic Designer’s Secret to Fame and Fortune. What is this Secret, you ask? For years and years it’s been shrouded in mystery, kept hidden from the mere mortals who we, the Graphic Artist’s and Designers, call the Useless-If-Not-For-Their-Money “Paying Client”.
But now I set this Secret free.
This is the bestest money making secret a graphic designer has, and once you understand it’s power you too will be enabled and empowered to do the undoable. To please the unpleaseable. To make the mundane into the extraordinary.
How, you ask?
You wish to know this Secret? You want to please your boss and make his next PowerPoint presentation look so amazing that he promotes you right then and there? Well, here’s The Secret to unlocking your inner Graphic Designer. No matter what you’re designing, no matter what other artistic devices you might use and no matter what the artistic direction you’ve been given by those in charge… add a fricking drop shadow to EVERYTHING. Your client/boss/friends/family will go into joyspasms.
Drop Shadows kick ASS.
Haha, it’s so true. I made a logo for one of our contests here at work to put on the website and my boss like it but he felt it was missing something. So I moved our stations logo over some and threw a drop shadow behind the whole of the contest logo….he thought it was brilliant. I was like, Uhhh okay.
Amazing…another old 80’s technique.