Behind An Award Winning Project

Today I am excited & blessed to receive 2 Communicator Awards (the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for Communications Professionals) of a project. I remember vividly of the interesting story behind this project.

When this project first started, we were facing some tough challenges of rude criticism from one of the contributor of the client's side who looked down on us. (Being in the industry of over 20 years, I have never encounter anyone criticize my work that way.) Lois and I were very upset and unsettled at time because we knew what we were doing and we poured our hearts and minds to the project. We did not give up, we did not let this negativity get to us, instead we determined to use that as a driving force to make our design even better. We did more research, focus group survey and marketing studies, we poured in extra time to fine tune the design again and again. At the end, the client all give us the thumbs up to start production. But I didn't end there, I put more thoughts into the product even during production, coming up with new ways to present information, added extra features... All I was thinking about was to make a web site that would ultimately benefits my client in different ways. When the product launched, Lois and I not only relieved but also very proud of what we accomplished. And the clients? They were extremely happy with our work. I think they will be very excited when we tell them about this good news over the upcoming thank-you party as well.

Now when I look back at this process, I realized how important it is to be steadfast, to keep my cool, to have faith in Him with all my hearts. But more importantly, I now am in awe and very humble because of the faithfulness of my Lord and His grace upon me and Lois.

Psalm 109 said, "...When my enemies see me, they say cruel things and shake their heads ... I don’t care if they curse me, as long as you bless me ... You help everyone in need, and you defend them when they are on trial."