In the real world real designers working for real corporate clients never get to pull prima donna hissy fits and insist that their work be used unchanged.

That’s fine art, my friend, not commercial art.

Depending on the scope of the job, multiple concepts are presented with multiple iterations, testing, and input from staff and customers.

If Rachel had spent any time in the local art and architecture bookstore, she’d know that when graphic designers publish books of their work, 80% of it is stuff that was never used, rejected, or changed.

Our market mentality has forgotten about independence and craftsmanship. What we have now is the ever so common “boss” and “employee” relationship, where the latter holds the slave post.

Today it’s like this: Your craftsmanship is good, but we need cash. He who pays is he who rules. Because such people detach the work done from the worker who did it.

The work is the worker’s art, even if they were paid to do it. But it’s a Money Rules economy, so this happens all the time.