Friday i quit my job at Indigo Creative to return to freelance and portfolio-building. Having been debating the timing for awhile, my quandary was answered when it was announced that Excel Graphics, our parent company, is finally collapsing with no money remaining for paychecks, having gone to fill the printing company’s increasing debt, and that the owner was requiring a designer to be laid off immediately. As I was planning on leaving in the near future anyway, I quit so that Indigo’s art director wouldn’t need to terminate our newest designer only to have me leave soon afterward. Sadly, after having lunch with my former co-workers today, it sounds as though they may shortly be joining me in life after Indigo.
After over three years working for the strange business association of Indigo and Excel, I’m happy to have worked with excellent designers and hope to maintain ties with them. Michael Hancock, our first art director, has already moved on to GoFish Creative. I’m interested to see the progress of Brad Palmer, the current art director; and my other associates, Kevin Sheehan; Scott Troxel; Jared Wright; and Kira Ludwig Shelton.
I am excited, SO EXCITED, for you Jonathan. I hope everything works out incredibly and soon enough you are rocking the design world and taking the rest of us by storm.
As for an Indigo update: nothing to be said as of yet, but you can’t help but be constantly terrified all of the time ;D
It’s good to see that you still value those relationships you made at Indigo. It was relationships that I kept with former co-workers that nailed me my first job as Art Director at an ad agency. (My dream job at the time) Sometimes those difficult choices that challenge us are the ones that make us the strongest in the end.
Congratulations on your new job! (Freelance designer – in the case of “glass half full”) Can’t wait to see more posts on the projects you’re working on.