design vs marketing

[TheRobbex]

I was once sent a 1.44Mb floppy by a U.K. government agency and told all the maps I required for the job (24? 25?) were on it "ready to print". When I told them that was quite impossible since they were tiny jpegs at 72 dpi they replied "We can see them on screen". I worked around but still got shafted on the fee.

Anyone who looks at a computer is suddenly a graphic designer.

[123finedesign]

64 kilobyte logo lol

[kiddkaos1]

if it happens to be larger than a4, a5 lets say, can you stretch it? That got me.

[hairy0pothead]

@kiddkaos1 same lol xD

[williamstmx]

Priceless

[JapplengUniversity]

I feel like laughing but inside I feel my soul burning. The memories are terrible ;__;

[reido82]

when dealing with clients and they say "I'll get one of my designers to do that / send that over to you" and it's still fucking wrong, who are they using exactly? Client designers and real designers seem to be very different. I once had to call a client's designer and tell him how to change the size of a jpeg image in photoshop. Are they just using Malcolm the cleaner as a make shift designer?!

[TalesOfWar]

This reminds me of working with PR folk trying to get simple things out of them like logo files to be used on our marketing literature that their company was supporting. My god, the number of times I've just had a crappy bluryy low resolution compressed JPG or GIF of the logo. ARGH! I've only ever had a vector file from 3 companies! I was shocked to find out their PR people knew what one was, or maybe they asked one of their designers.

[nastik1987]

"could there be anything else for u to f*ck up?"  :D

so true!

[FabienBoulay]

haha yesss ... the best client for a graphic designer is another graphic designer ...

[annanimal6]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

[OrganicaUK]

Sounds like the place where I work... Erm, how many times do I have to say... Pdf file idiots!?!

[angiersj]

I've run into this when I was too as an inhouse designer, but people would try to send me stuff they "designed" in PP and Word. It was always prefaced with "It should be really simple since I already did the design in power point you only need to make it pretty" and then open it up and see a the sh*t storm inside. It was much easier to just start from scratch! At least They didn't use MS paint like another client of mine did.....

[amdaniels11]

please NO more of this little green shitrobot bag , I've just about coughed-up a lung laughing so fucking hard :-))))))) fucking clever MF !!!

[jasonheffer]

That is some of the funniest sh*t I've ever seen.

[FranDias]

HAHHAHA it could be a larger size..possibly a5 hahahahhahahahahahaha

[Ceaser486]

"Could you just send the file as a bastard PDF?"

"I certainly do not have the equipment to do that!"

[cbarrass1]

When I made this vid - the PDF issue was a REAL thing I encountered

[aeonjoey]

@cbarrass1 It still is for some!

[radtechjohn]

I have been doing print production for 19 years and went back to school and also do CT Scan at a hospital..I can tell you that clients for design are not near the assholes as doctors and patients are!!!

[Capeau]

doing scans at an hospitals is quite important too. Anything that goes wrong there can ruin someones life.

Patients have all the right to complain if you look at how they are treated.

Docters are fucking nonchalant assholes indeed.

[kmarois]

Its like all of us freelancers are Howard Roark "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build"

[Jubukio]

The worst industry to be in, I'd rather kill myself.

[EREWHON3]

A day in the life, typical for Creative Directors

[staaky]

How can you not hate your clients?!

[cbarrass1]

I know especially if they are mental and blame the designer for everything when they don't understand themselves!

[blogx113]

do all designers hate their clients? I usually lose my temper and refused to take jobs where I have to communicate with them.

[Aphrodite005]

I also get angry with clients.

[mgeorgedesigns]

I hate clients!

[rayleaning]

Fab!!!!