The Process (a.k.a. Designing The Stop Sign Video) - ORIGINAL

Hahah! This is brilliant! I can totally relate to this, I've often had to incorporate asinine "suggestions" in my work...

"Way to crack the code!" Non-creatives on their PCs and creative on a Mac. Writer Harlan Ellison refers to such morons as parasites and mollusks on the creative process.

Stellar. Brilliant. Painfully, excruciatingly true. I don't know whether to laugh, or fight post-traumatic flashbacks.

Laugh it up. This is what marketing, account executives and upper management do to creative all over the world every day. It's happening right now.

Design by committee at it's best! It's days like this that make me cry.

This kind of approach makes the design agency rich, alterations are draining but costly.

you assume the client actual pays for those hours... apparently you don't realize that the client still expected the budget to hold to the original. aka, we change our mind, you keep your budget static...

Some clients will try to lock you in on a single, package price, but the vendor has to be very clear the number of iterations they get without before it becomes a change in scope. If you don't so this, it's a fool's errand and you will lose money on top of working for sub-mental dopes who can't make a good decision to save their lives.

1) I don't choose the agencies my team works with.
2) I'm definitely not the problem.

I'll give you this - my original comment is based on my experience in Central Europe, where it is definitely 50/50.

Ah, well, Europe could be an issue.

In many ways, I find European design to be more artistic and creative than North America. Perhaps they're more likely to try and make the problem fit into their grand design, instead of trying to design for the problem.