~ CDC Incorporates Animated GIF of Diarrhea in Tweet To Caution About Swimming Pool Hygiene

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CDC Incorporates Animated GIF of Diarrhea in Tweet To Caution About Swimming Pool Hygiene

Another instance where I feel really sorry for the graphic designer.

Could you imagine being the designer, and you’re sitting at your desk one day, you’re approached by your boss, or you’re asked in a staff meeting, to illustrate a little kid having a bout of diarrhea? And, cherry on top, it has to be animated!

Well, someone out there, some poor design soul, had to design and animate this very concept. Cringe.

(I’ve embedded the CDC’s tweet containing the animated GIF at the very bottom of this post.)

The CDC Made Waves With Some Truly Iconic ‘Sh*tposting’ About Diarrhea In The Pool

Don’t swim with diarrhea this summer, CDC announces

The CDC reminds swimmers to not enter a pool while experiencing diarrhea.

The CDC’s New GIFs About Not Swimming With Diarrhea Don’t Explain All the Dangers—Here’s What to Know

CDC warns not to swim with diarrhea, but all Twitter can focus on is the gif the agency used

cdc_pool July 3, 2021
by Rachel Trent

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against swimming with diarrhea this summer, and the visual it’s using to give that warning is making quite a splash.

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~ Next Major Emoji Update Could Include a Pregnant Man

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Next Major Emoji Update Could Include a Pregnant Man

July 16, 2021

How far and insane our culture has fallen since I last blogged here.

I absolutely feel sorry for any graphic designer (assuming the designer is not a leftist who doesn’t support, agree with, or endorse identity politics) who was told to create what is presumably a “trans inclusive” emoji, meaning an emoji of a pregnant woman with a mustache:

Pregnant man and multiracial handshake emojis unveiled before launch

Pregnant man, non-binary ‘person with crown’ and multiracial handshake are among new emoji coming to smartphones in 2022

Pregnant man and multiracial handshake among new emojis being introduced this year newEmojis

A draft list of new emojis released by the Unicode Consortium also includes more gender-neutral options, a person biting their lip, some melting faces, hands making a heart shape, and someone who can hardly watch.

‘Pregnant man’ among this year’s emoji finalists 

By Natalie O’Neill
July 15, 2021

A text with this emoji could cause a pregnant pause.

This year’s batch of emoji finalists includes a knocked-up man, a disco ball and a melting smiley face, according to a report.

Several gender-inclusive and non-binary images — including one titled Pregnant Man —  could be released for smartphone use in September, according to emojipedia.org.

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~ Fleet Laxative Commercial – Pity This Graphic Designer

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There was a commercial on earlier today for a product – I believe laxative – by a company called Fleet.

I’ve not been able to find a copy of this commercial on You Tube.

Anyway, there’s a part of the commercial that utilizes an animation that was probably made in something such as Adobe After Effects (video editing, video production, and animation are not my forte’).

In this Fleet commercial, there is an animated sequence showing fecal matter in someone’s intestines – the fecal matter appears to be represented by round, boulder shaped looking things of various sizes.

Next, after the person takes the Fleet, the stool is shown exiting the animated person’s intestines.

It was not graphic, but even so, it was gross. I really don’t want to see an animation or any sort of video of crap leaving a person’s body.

I feel sorry for the graphic designer or multimedia guy whose boss told him, “Guess what you get to animate today? It’s literally a shitty project!”

Perhaps this commercial can be found on Fleet’s site (where you can learn more about adult constipation!).

See Also:

CDC Incorporates Animated GIF of Diarrhea in Tweet To Caution About Swimming Pool Hygiene

Next Major Emoji Update Could Include a Pregnant Man

~ Employers: Interior Design or Gallery Design is Not Graphic Design

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I was on a site which advertised a graphic design job. I was interested, so I clicked on it, which led me to a page which was actually asking for a “gallery designer” which seems to be pretty similar to interior design.

A note to companies out there: when posting available jobs, please do not confuse graphic design with interior design – or web design or computer programming. Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many companies confuse the field of graphic design with other careers.

You will notice that other than asking for someone who has Adobe Creative Suite experience (i.e., Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), this job position I am copying in part below has nada, nothing to do with Graphic Design.

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~ The Employer Who Insults Graphic Designers Before They Even Submit a Resume’ or an Application, Refuses to Provide On the Job Training for Specific Equipment – And The Cheap Skates Want the Graphic Designer to Fill Several Non-Graphics Related Roles, Too

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There aren’t too many graphic design positions available where I live, so I can’t afford to be too choosy. This time, I was because these people sound as though they’d be a nightmare to work for, and they aren’t offering enough pay to put up with the nightmare to make it worthwhile.

I saw the most obnoxious graphic designer job wanted ad I have ever seen in my life.

The employer, who I will refer to as “Acme Inc.” (which is not their actual name), was seeking a full time graphic designer with at least an Associate’s Degree, for ten dollars an hour.

This employer ended their job wanted ad (which was on a job hunting site) by saying they had a laid back, casual work environment, a claim which was completely contradicted by the preceding obnoxious, condescending tone of the ad.

Like a lot of employers, Acme Inc. is pretty unfair and unrealistic: they want one employee, one applicant, to fulfill the job roles of several different people. This particular company wants a graphic designer who will wear several different hats – not just a “graphic design” hat.

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~ The Christian Employer Who Asked on Their Online Job Form If I’m a Drinker, Smoker, if I’m Saved – and Other Things

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My quest for finding employment continues!

My job hunting has not been going very well, though I have been on a few job interviews, some for graphic design related jobs, some not.

I’ve been applying for part time, minimum wage jobs (sales clerk type jobs) in addition to looking for full time graphics positions (and there aren’t very many of those where I live, and I cannot relocate). My thinking is that if I land a part time, minimum wage job, I can job hunt for full time jobs in my spare time.

Over the internet, I applied for a full time graphics position at a Christian-based University about two months ago.

The online job application for this Christian University was such that I was not permitted to skip over any of the questions on the form.

I tried to leave some of the questions empty or blank, but when I would click on the “go on to next page” link to proceed filling out the job application and complete it, the University’s web page would produce a dialog box with red exclamation points informing me that all the fields and questions on the page must be filled in to proceed.

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~ American Apparel Apologizes After Mistakenly Posting Challenger Photo as Being “Cool”

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The millennial kid working on social media for this brand thought that the debris and clouds created by the 1980s Challenger expolsion, in which several American astronauts died, looked “cool.”

American Apparel Posts Challenger Explosion As Fireworks for Fourth of July, Later Apologizes

    July 2014
    This is probably one of the worst social media slip-ups a company could make. Especially on the Fourth of July. On Thursday,
    American Apparel posted a photo of the Challenger explosion , apparently thinking it showed fireworks. (The photo looks nothing like fireworks.) They later apologized for the offensive slip-up. As a reminder, the Challenger disaster, in which an American space shuttle exploded just after take-off in 1986, tragically killed 7 astronauts.
    The company reblogged the post on its Tumblr on Thursday , apparently without realizing what it showed, according to a Tweet from Buzzfeed’s Adam Davis. American Apparel tagged the post “smoke, clouds.” The company later removed the post and apologized on Twitter.
    …Welp, that’s incredibly awkward, especially for a company that touts America in its name and boasts that all of its clothing is made in the USA. It’s also a weird excuse for what happened. Regardless of whether or not the social media employee was born before or after the disaster (we suspect many social media editors were born post-Challenger), the photo’s origin probably should’ve been investigated before being posted, right?
    …. The modified photo’s original uploader, a Tumblr user and UK artist going by the name of truangles, apparently was well-aware of what the photo showed when he modified and posted it. But he immediately realized what a gaffe the company made. “They don’t even know what it is,” he commented. “Who even runs their blog?”

American Apparel Apologizes After Mistakenly Posting Challenger Photo

    Jul 4, 2014, 4:01 PM ET
    By GILLIAN MOHNEY
    American Apparel apologized this week after a social media employee mistook a photo of the shuttle Challenger disaster for clouds and posted the photo on the company’s Tumblr site.
    In re-posted images of the original post the explosion can be seen on a red background tagged as “smoke” and “clouds.”
    The company quickly deleted the post and tweeted a statement apologizing for using the image.

The Worst Social Media Brand Blunders of 2014