Why you should use a graphic designer

Earlier I posted that I was using Bluefox to design my live show graphics for SpaceVidcast.com (which was earlier called NASASpaceCast.com and may change names again before we launch.) The problem with using a talented graphic designer is that they are super busy all day and night designing, so it can be hard to get extremely fast yet pretty graphics out of them.

Yesterday I decided I should probably have a plan B and designed my own live streaming graphics. This is what I came up with:

Not bad but really nothing different than what anyone else has done. Later in the evening around 2:00am or so I was able to meet up with Bluefox and a couple hours later he was able to crank this out:

That’s pretty freaking cool but doesn’t quite work with the graphics. So a few minutes later this came my way:

That’s even better. Logo is a bit smaller to allow for more text and there is more usable area for objects at the bottom while still remaining very sleek and web 2.0 looking. Finally Bluefox thought that there may be a way to reduce the footprint even more and still allow for text, or possibly use both the last image and the following image in two different scenarios:

Even smaller logo but it still comes across in the stream beautifully and an even smaller footprint but you’ll see we were still able to fit all of the text on there in the same font size.

Bluefox isn’t done but it got to be around 4:00am CST and we were both tired and called it a night. The graphic at the top that I did doesn’t even begin to compare to a couple hours work for Bluefox. This is why I use a pro graphic designer, and you should too. My next task for Bluefox: fix my blog theme!

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