Why I Stopped Being a Graphic Designer

Brief: Design an ebay logo for 'British American Muscle and Fitness'. Use bold bright colours and simple design.

Draft Design:Feedback: Too much! Too loud! Too 70s! Too camp! Tries too hard!

Huh.
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Wider Brief: Find pictures of healthy looking, muscular men, but not overdeveloped competition bodybuilders. They should look as though they're attraction is aimed at women in a butch, masculine, tough-but-not-threatening kind of way, while in reality being deniably aimed largely at men. Somehow.

Example 1:Feedback: Too pretty! Too gay! Too nice! Too porny! Too ambigious!

Example 2:Feedback: Too geeky! Too old! Too straight! Too...just wrong!

Huh.

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