hi everyone, after months or at least weeks of speculations as regard to why the whole of us have had a whole lot of hard rejections as of late , here you will find the very reason why tons of your works are binned in a second, under cover of “quality”.
Indeed, after many hard rejections that came out of the blue and that no one , even among the most experienced guys that i know, could explain with a really credible argumentation made of other things that very small and discussable details, i was finally told, in a hard rejection message, that the very reason for rejections is (sound of drum and big mystery while u are waiting for the incredible secret) … is … CENTER THEMED LAY OUT!!! LOL.
In other words, u can create a super flat and super average thing, take not over 15 minutes to create a flyer, this is not a problem, as long as u put something in one side and some text on the other hand, all is fine! (see the link in the end of the thread, good example)
Actually, I was provided with the following explanation, that works in this style (center themed layout) kind of cannot make it anymore - unless they are extremely original - and that items must be “unique , compelling and so on”, in other words, all kind of demands that are completely disconnected with what quality control teams do daily while they select what is approved and what is not … .
Everyone tells me, for instance, that i have a style of my own, really unique, but most of my items based on compositions are hard rejected despite they are much more worked out than a whole lot of things that are accepted. Can anybody identify this?! (besides one of my last hard rejections was a king’s day flyer, while there is almost none in this theme … so the problem is saturation of the market when there are almost no item in a category?! lol)
The fact of the matter is, that if it were not that boring for authors to deal with all this, that there would be material to laugh about all this … So, basically, here is what we are explained … in order to get original things we are all pushed in the same direction, imposed the type of lay out, imposed the style also, as we all identify that envato is pushing author to create font-based designs mainly … in other words, let’s all do the same thing and with all kind of the same imposed demands and let’s be original and do something different ! LOL Paradoxical isn’t it?
Let’s face it, all this is nothing but policy, it has nothing to do with quality! (we could feel that envato was cooking something and now we know what it is … this is “place it!” and for this needed to have customers tastes pushed in a specific direction) unlike what they would like people to believe, no one knows what is selling and what is not (for the actual proof of this, have a look at the next paragraph) and all this is not necessarily determined by quality but rather by places in the search engine and the capacity that all people have to promote their items and give visibility to them!!!
besides, how can they explain that guys with portfolios of 2000 or 3000 items seem to have most of their things approved daily, in their cases, and that a great variety - at least one third - has no sale all and that a good deal of others do not have more than just one sale, while these items are given good exposure via the search engine, as they are much exposed in the first pages where most of the buyers use to buy …). Fighting against saturation would not be more about taking out the old designs that are never sold and taking much space on the servers (not to mention that some of them are outdated in terms of style now)?! Taking out items that have never sold in 3 years or something like this is not that much of a big deal and i assume that no author would feel insulted that this is done this way!
When i first joined envato they were promoting that we could create “what we want , in the comfort of our homes” lol well that has to be gone for long! Quality nowadays rimes with doing what people want u to do , supposedly out of preventing market saturation! This is how last summer , by the time of july 4th, after a good promotion of this style, many guys had created what they were asked and we had a maesltrom of font-based 4th of july , the first page of results was exclusively made of this type of creation and , at least 40% of them, had no sale at all despite being in the first page of results , when they were given maximum exposure!
ALL THIS MAKES VERY LITTLE SENSE!
The choice that is made is more than discussable indeed, not only will it definitely kill part of the originality and creativity that a lot of guys are offering through their diversity of styles, experiences, countries , capacities and so on, but , in the meanwhile, this is basically making much more difficult to follow some of the very basic principles of design , namely:
proximity, alignment, contrast and repetition (rules that seem to have been forgotten for long here …)
they are no where to be seen in most of the newly approved items! well, when design is not based on basic principles, isn’t there a problem?! being disruptive a bit is not that bad but completely all teh way does it make sense?
as credibility is a big issue … here is what a friend of mine was told inside the last hard rejection message that he was sent … “You’ve created a really cool render although you need to put more work into the typography layout and provide a more unique composition. At the moment this is based on your latest 5 submissions. (typography on the left and render on the right)”. Well, they push people into doing something and then they reproach people to follow instructions afterwards lol. All his items had indeed the same disposition but renders, typos and so on were not the same, so he had basically done what he expected to do but this was not fine … can anybody understand?
coherence is definitely lacking ! people are coming here to have professionnal designs (what is the point for buying from pros otherwise and what is the point to have a quality control, too?) , things that they cannot make on their own in a few minutes (so that they can save time and potentially offer a higher quality too) and they finally end up having to choose from the selection of very simple things that were let go and are in keeping with the idea of standards that (only) envato has! As for long shot professionals, no doubt that they will have a very different idea on the subject!
for the people who are interested i will post the kind of things that i submitted and were hard rejected so that they can compare with this link that @prowebmedia has displayed in another thread ! (Removed) my question regarding this one, now … is this one so very unique, worked out and so on so that it could go through despite center themed lay out?! lol because if so i dare say that many people will clearly not feel the same
