{"id":122,"date":"2006-08-05T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2010-10-17T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:45:30","slug":"rejected-icon-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/rejected-icon-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejected Icon #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone will have to deal with rejection at some point and here&#8217;s one of my several rejected icon designs in the past.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/icons\/overview.png\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b8b8b8; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;Oh my, you can&#8217;t reject me! I got a smooth and beautiful metal skin.&#8221; &#8211; Probably more aqua lotion is needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason for rejection:<\/strong> Lack of shiny Aqua gloss.<\/p>\n<p>Constant rejection is always part of the job but sometime what gets accepted and what gets rejected keeps me scratching my head with wonderment.  That said, I do love being rejected sometime and two reasons for this are:  You can have your own personal museum of rejected works! It&#8217;s fun sharing them to your friends. Second reason, you&#8217;re free to &#8220;reuse&#8221; them in other projects without ownership issues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bwrapper\" align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"boxtop\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"boxmid\">\n<div class=\"tipicon\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"boxtext\"><strong>Little tidbit:<\/strong> Forty percent of all graphic designers leave the profession in the first two years due to constant rejections. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/cte\/profiles\/qualityOfLife.asp?careerID=74\">Link<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boxbottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone will have to deal with rejection at some point and here&#8217;s one of my several rejected icon designs in the past. &#8220;Oh my, you can&#8217;t reject me! I got a smooth and beautiful metal skin.&#8221; &#8211; Probably more aqua lotion is needed. Reason for rejection: Lack of shiny Aqua gloss. Constant rejection is always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}