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Is there an island of forgotten comps?

3.22.2010

By admin

I’m sure this happens to all designers–a project gets going and the design is coming along well, birds are chirping, the air smells fresh, and then BAM; the client dies. No, that didn’t happen, but sometimes it feels like that, when your beautiful comp just lies in the ether with nowhere to go after a project derails.

Perhaps you can reuse the design, perhaps not. I am not trying to say it was wasted effort, unless of course you get shafted on the money side. I rarely think anything I do (work-related) is a waste of time. Leisure activities are, of course, an entirely different beast however. I also don’t ever really reuse a design as all my jobs are from scratch, with only other sites used as a reference point to jump off from.

I was just wondering how other designers handle this type of work–do they archive the comps, as I do, or do they just get rid of them and move on? Do they add them to a ‘portfolio’ section of non-finished work? Or do you reuse them for future work? Or, even cooler, do you give them sort of Viking burial to pass them? I think that would be kind of cool.

Anywho, here’s one I worked on recently that was for naught. (Click for larger view)

This comp was for a small book site for the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles and Flyers. It would / could have been a very cool project with some cool social media strategies involved with it, but it just kind of ran out of steam. Jerry got rich, then lost most of his wealth in some sour real estate deals. He does sound like quite an interesting chap, but he did own the Flyers–boo.

If anyone has need of a sports-based book site with green / grey color scheme, you know who to call, right?

Tags: Design, eagle, project derail

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