Hello. I'm Kean Richmond

Web Designer, developer, front-end coder, blog writer and more...

I'm Kean, I live in North Yorkshire and I do stuff on the Internet.
Currently I work as a Senior Designer / Developer for Bronco and have been since graduating with a degree in Web Development.

This website is my online home where I get to play with design, write about the career I love and show off some of the work I'm most proud of. Hope you enjoy it.

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9th March 2010

Can you make my logo bigger?

It’s frequently the first thing mentioned by a client when commenting on a new design and it quickly leads to a designer crying into their hands. On the face of it it’s really not that big a change to make but the reasons behind a client requesting it and the frequency in which a designer receives such a request is what makes it such a big problem.

In the past I’ve had little comeback for clients with such a request because I simply wasn’t able to communicate effectively a reason to not change the logo size. Why exactly would making the logo bigger ruin be a bad thing. Often I could see it unbalancing a page but this reason just didn’t do anything to convince the client. So instead I’d just make the change, too battle scarred to fight, and get into a stinking mood while doing it. After two requests from different clients yesterday I decided to have another look into it and see if there was a good reason out there that even the client could understand.

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