Cleveland Cavaliers Wheelchair Basketball Team

Today I have been working on a brochure for the Cleveland Cavaliers Wheelchair Basketball team. My older brother is on the team, and he asked me to design their brochure for their first annual celebrity basketball game. I immediately said yes to the request, although I consider myself a photographer, not a graphic designer, but I really believe in this organization and I figured I can come up with something. In my years of college, I took many design classes, and I have designed brochures for political campaigns in the past. How easily I forget that a photographer is a photographer, not a graphic designer. WOW. I have gained another degree of respect for graphic designers today. It is incredibly challenging to be creative with words, limited space, limited images, and many different limited elements. Not an easy task. I came up with a rough draft, and sent it off to the team, and I am anxiously awaiting a response, because I hate to say it, but I am proud of myself. I am proud of the challenge, and the cause. It makes me feel really great to do something for a cause that I truly believe in, no matter the time/cost/effort. It makes me really think about how I work, and the people and companies that I constantly interact with on a daily basis. My father always said "If we had a perfect world...(fill in the blank)" and that is how he and I would come up with solutions, and work from there. Well if I had a perfect world, I would always work with people and companies that made me feel happy, and good about the cause, and the work that I do. If only the world was perfect. Don't get me wrong, I have a pretty close to perfect world right now. For the most part, I am my own boss, and saying and going and doing as I please. Not many people can say that. I guess what I am trying to say is, I feel great working for a good cause such as the Cleveland Cavaliers Wheelchair Basketball team. Maybe I will start volunteering more....only time will tell.