SEEING RED: Mark Bendell

SEEING RED: Mark Bendell in Business Action magazineWhy Mark Bendell gets wound up about design

I’ve been a freelance designer /artworker for the past two years. I recently took on a design job for a client in London and even before I’d started, I knew it was a bad idea . . .

“Mark, did you know I can design as well? I want my brochure to look like this,” holding everything that was wrong with design.

The worst layout I had ever seen in my entire life, the colour was as if Willy Wonka had vomited on the page. Fonts that dated back to the 1980s and images looking like they had been taken on a 10-year-old mobile phone.

Read the full article in Business Action online.

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