Hello and welcome. It's a wee bit past midnight, and I'm working on a freelance jobbie for a local housing development. Well, I'm not actually working on it now. I'm obviously taking a procrasto-break to gripe.
It's a pocket folder with the usual promo gab inside. My print broker contact, let's call him 'Bob', wants it CHOCK full of images. White space? Vat ees dees vite space you speak of? Bleh. I hate crow-barring stuff into a layout. Oh man, and talk about white space, all the people pictures in this thing just scream Honkey Trek--The White Flight!*
The job was given to me along with a "Lifestyles" image CD that apparently had all the dark tones filtered out. Heh. I mean this is a pretty crackery town to begin with, so I guess we're basically just following existing demographics. I don't have a royalty-free image library of my own, and the budget doesn't allow me to custom order anything above & beyond what 'Bob' could provide me. So we're going to keep it on the porcelain side for now.
Alrighty. Gripe done. Must finish and get to bed.
*Special thanks to Berk Breathed circa 1980-something for that one.
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