Coping With Criticism

One of the things most important in working for a client is being able to adapt to their demands of your work. Whilst some clients will give you relatively free rein to interpret a solution, others treat you as more of a magic box meant to realise an idea they already have in their head but cannot express.

Regardless of having carte blanche or a very opinionated client, any work you produce will at some point raise criticism.

I am not very good at accepting and using criticism. I am, in fact, woefully bad. I mostly ignore it. This is unfortunate, because outsider perspectives and critique can be the most useful signposts to direct a design solution. The natural attachment one has to a work can be a powerful force that too often biases the ability to 'take a step back' and see the result.

I've recently been informed that the cover will be re-done as one of the other editors feels, very strongly, that the new landscape cover is not of a high enough caliber. The only appropriate approach to take when such situations occur is philosophical: Such Is Life.