January 2010
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clientsfromhell:
Client: “We’ve decided we need a warmer blue in our logo.”
Me: “Blue is a cool color.”
Client: “Well, just make it warmer, whatever that takes.”
Me: “It’s impossible. Blue either becomes green or purple.”
Client: “We don’t like either of those options. Just do your best to warm it up without changing it dramatically. You’re the designer. We know you can do it.”
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clientsfromhell:
Client: “The logo looks great, but can we change the address font to Arabic? I need it for my Middle Eastern viewers.”
Me: “Actually, Arabic is a name of that font you sent me, it doesn’t actually change the words into another language. I can purchase a actual Arabic font, and figure out how to turn it into Arabic….”
Client: “So New Times Roman doesn’t change the words into...
“I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
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clientsfromhell:
Client: We’d like to trial two different home page web designs to see which is most popular.
Me: Well that’ll cost you twice the price.
Client: We’d like to pay you only for the one we use.
Client’s MBA friend: In marketing we call it experimenting.
Me: It doesn’t matter what you call it – it’ll still cost you twice the price.
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clientsfromhell:
Client: “Would it be okay if we do a remote screen sharing or something like that?”
Me: “What, for the visitors on the website? That’s not really possible…”
Client: “No, for you. We need to watch you work. My wife is very protective of certain parts of the code”
clientsfromhell:
Me: “We can’t print this; this image is really low resolution, even for a 72 dpi thing off the web. It’s literally 300 pixels and we are printing it on a 6x9 inch postcard.”
Boss: “It’s fine, just go with it.”
Me: “But we are a commercial printer—if our own ads look like crap, why should anyone hire us?”
Boss: “We just have opposing philosophies.”
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Watchgrom:
Awsm experimental typographic work around the type font garamond by Murat Pak. Boooom.
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