Cheap—Fast—Good Creative: Can It Be True?

When it comes to services (you name it, from landscaping to dry cleaning), customers will always expect that it be three things at once: cheap—fast—good.

However, as most Graphic Designers have learned, its really only possible to expect two of the three when it comes to creative advertising and branding work. If your client needs it cheap and fast, the piece probably won’t end up being an agency portfolio piece. If they need it good and fast, it’ll cost them.

So what’s with these design warehouse sites that promise all three? Can it really be true? The old adage applies, and as we read in http://bit.ly/OiUMj if it’s too good to be, it isn’t. We had a good laugh reading this blog, since nothing proves the point better than real back-and-forth email dialogue and logo revisions between a ‘client’ and a cheap/fast ‘design’ site.