[design219]

Clients From Hell

I can relate to many of these.

I started to post this in the lounge, but it's primarily about graphic design clients.

[andi*pandi]

bookmarked. Oh yes.

[Thorzdad]

Wow. Reads like my entire working career.

[seanc]

I always like client vs professional wars.

[Andy8]

I love the "Lost in translation" - absolute classic!

[design219]

The gay skeleton kills me.

[Oisín]

There’s something I don’t get about that site.

When you hover over the wee little arrow thingy (or the date) to the left of a story, it tells you there are “X notes”—I presumed these would be comments. Yet when you click on the arrow/date to see the comments, there’s nothing. No comments.

What the hell are the ‘notes’, then?

[hmccorkle]

This is great. Thanks for the post. I can't read too many of them though... I'll start losing my confidence.

[Thorzdad]

This one has been making the rounds lately. Thought it would be apropos here.

[Andy8]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

This one has been making the rounds lately. Thought it would be apropos here.

I laughed so hard I started to cry.

Excellent stuff indeed.

[Veltliner]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

This one has been making the rounds lately. Thought it would be apropos here.

I love the sliceless no pie chart.

[design219]

My new favorite:

“I understand that you prefer to use photoshop, but we don’t feel like that program is universal enough. If you could do all of the design work in Microsoft Paint it would be easier for us to edit what you do and give you an idea of the changes we want.”

[Thorzdad]

Wow. That's a good one. And completely believable.
My half-brother works for some company out in California that makes racks and portable mounts for medical monitors and stuff. He does all their multi-page sales sheets and assembly instructions. The company makes him create everything in Word...so the engineers can make edits to the instructions in case he's not in the office.

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by design219 

My new favorite:

“I understand that you prefer to use photoshop, but we don’t feel like that program is universal enough. If you could do all of the design work in Microsoft Paint it would be easier for us to edit what you do and give you an idea of the changes we want.”

That has to be a joke.

[andi*pandi]

You sir have never gotten mockups done in paint, powerpoint, or word. It's enough to make you hand out napkins.

[Thorzdad]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

That has to be a joke.

I assure you, sir, that's a good day with the client.

[Veltliner]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

Wow. That's a good one. And completely believable.
My half-brother works for some company out in California that makes racks and portable mounts for medical monitors and stuff. He does all their multi-page sales sheets and assembly instructions. The company makes him create everything in Word...so the engineers can make edits to the instructions in case he's not in the office.

...and he had to stand on one leg while he was doing it and sing Jingle Bells backwards.

[imitchellg5]

I'm not into graphic design much, but that's an awesome read.

[art_director]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

This one has been making the rounds lately. Thought it would be apropos here.

I would have found this to be hilarious had I not lived in the past. Instead, I weep openly.

[Thorzdad]

The past? You mean those days when clients and creators worked together for a common goal? Yeah, I miss those days, too.

[art_director]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

The past? You mean those days when clients and creators worked together for a common goal? Yeah, I miss those days, too.

Yes, that's the mythical time of which I speak.

[Thorzdad]

Aye. Those were mystikal ages, to be sure. When the gods of design walked this land. We still sing of those heady times around the fires, to the lamentations of the younglings who shall never know the glory of such an age.

[art_director]

And let us not forget our patron saint, Ms. Ruby Lith.

[Thorzdad]

And her sister Amber.
Ah...I remember fondly those days spent riding the Proportion Wheel

[art_director]

Oh how I miss stat cameras.

[Thorzdad]

Oh yeah.
Rapidiograph pens.
Letraset press type.
Type gauges (still have a couple of those around here somewhere)
Type specimen books from actual type houses.
Paper reps.
Cold-press board.
Waxers.
Markers, markers, markers.

[andi*pandi]

Ok you two, keep it on topic or else I'm moving you to a new thread called "Old people remember using rocks, chisel".









And then I'll post in it about the lovely smell of Benzine, and the joys of a clean light table.

[Thorzdad]

I can't say I've ever seen a CLEAN light table.
Wanna talk about t-squares and circle templates?

[Doc HM]

I submitted one but they didn't seem to like it.

Brief was to design a series of covers for children's puzzle books (12 in total) using bright primary colours.

Client: You seem to have used the same colours again on more than one cover

Me: Well, there are only so many bright primary colours

Client: Well you're the designer, can't you make up some new ones?

Me: Thud!

[Chuckit]

In the spirit of this thread: How A Web Design Goes Straight To Hell

BTW, I totally had that dog client.

[Thorzdad]

That's a good one. I've heard all of those from clients. "Pop" is always a favorite term of love. I redesigned the logo for one of my former employers. The CEO had his wife chime-in. Her solution? Add lots of arrows. Arrows make everything dynamic and show communication.

[Brien]

Ugh.

At least I have the talk of rapidographs and light tables to make me happy.

[design219]

A Christmas client from hell.

YouTube - An Advertising Parable For The Holidays

[andi*pandi]

that is awesome. Reminds me of the song...

CreativeTechs Tips: Make The Logo Bigger. The Song.