All too often, a designer will have projects assigned to him or her on a whim of a manager. This is such a project. This was done in a couple of hours, and while it passes my standards for design, I still consider it uninspired.
As designers we can’t make everything a work of beauty when deadlines loom and when frankly, the audience couldn’t care less (this report is going to a small handful of federal administrators).
To maintain sanity, we as designers need to choose the lilies we gild.