So if I could briefly describe my situation, I’d really appreciate any and all feedback. I’ve been working for my current company for a little over a year, designing sales programs, email marketing, sales flyers, one sheets etc. I graduated from Grad school in 2012 and even though I’ve been using the programs in the Adobe creative suite for years, I’ve only been designing things professionally for about a year. I constantly feel pushed to work faster, faster, and I feel as though I’m working as hard and fast as I can go. I’m sure this is primarily a boss thing, but the problem is that since this is my first job and there are no other employees at my company who do what I do… I really have no benchmark with which to compare my skills and performance. I really can’t say if it is possible for me to be working smarter/harder/faster.
It’s really hard for me to gauge where I can go, if I’m not sure where I am, so I came here to get some opinions from some experts… and non-experts to see if anyone can give me some feedback on the most recent program I worked on.
So here is the program https://www.rbicorp.com/files/promotions/2014SpringBook_KOHincluded.pdf
We put it together in 7 weeks, start to finish (not including time spent at the printer). To save time, some of the pages were copied directly from past programs and had paragraph/table styles applied to them to make them match this book. Only about 15-20 of the pages were done this way. I used object/paragraph/table styles wherever I could for consistency and to save time. Also, a lot of the images we get from our vendors are low-res and I do the best I can to make them work for print. I had a couple of people working to get me the correct information and pricing to go in the book, but the design was done by me alone. I should also say that I am partially responsible for the “logic” of the book, so I ask a lot of questions throughout the process to make sure we’re not creating nonsensical pages.
So I guess that’s it. My primary concern is whether the amount of work put into it is average or below/above average for one (relatively new) designer to have done in 7 weeks, but like I said any and all feedback is welcomed.
Thanks for reading this tremendously long post and for any feedback you leave.
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