Personally I find her article ill informed, poorly written and hypocritical relying heavily on mostly irrelevant figures seemingly  plucked from the air with no real breakdown of what exactly said costs covered. It’s funny that the same ‘average brained’ civil servants that could easily do the job of an experienced designer were probably the same ones that accepted these large design budgets?

Here’s some of the highlights.

“…yet one department admitted that it could produce logos in-house for £648….” & “…Last year it spent £14,000 on a new logo that, when viewed sideways, resembled a sexually aroused man.”

Clearly, you don’t get ’sideways sexually aroused man’ for just £648.

The Tory MP Greg Hands said: “Surely adding two digits doesn’t need to be outsourced at all. Civil servants can do this themselves. Modern graphic design packages surely allow anyone with an average brain to design something as good as, or better than, what we see in front of us here.”

Yes Greg Hands, surely any civil servant with an average brain can do all the jobs they currently outsource, equally well if not better, despite their complete lack of knowledge and training in those fields. In fact, the arrival of these above average brained ‘Super Civil Servants’ will surely bring about the demise of our industry (and just about every other one too) heralding the end of society as we know it.