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- mydo
i'm doing a logo. client emails me today.. best quotes...
"I just want it to be perfect..just something subtle like erm.. a reflection of the globe ..a sunny hue"
"8 stars in the last D symbolising the 7 continents and the earth"
"swishes with an orange or orange red horizon on top of the platinum, still like the idea of 8 somethings in the background (a bling thing in the best possible taste natch..v auspicious too) "
- soda0
that brought a tear to my eye.
it sounds beautiful...
- pollypocket0
clients like that baffle me...
what planet are they from?
- tank0
- TheTick0
"8 stars in the last D symbolising the 7 continents and the earth"
Where do you put the evil of Sauron? And don't forget thw swooshes. Need swooshes.
WTF????
- UndoUndo0
i've been waiting for a good solid brief like that for years
- silentseven0
tank
that site is awesome !!
I like the one about the guy telling the client to double click so he snaps his fingers twice.
hahaha
- normal0
It's always a warning sign when you get shit like that from a client. It says, "hey i'm an amateur and don't know what the hell i'm talking about and i'll show it to all my friends and colleagues who have no clue either and they'll say inane things just to have an opinion and i'll come back and repeat those to you verbatim until I wear you out or you produce the pile of shit that i've got in my head."
My advice is if it's good money,
grab your ankles bend over and do it mouth breathing the entire time so you don't have to even smell the shit.
- ornj0
Yeah get used to that, I got this from a client who originally asked for columns on his site and when he said columns, he ment like, the the ones that hold up buildings.
"My partner and I both like the middle mock-up the best, but we don't like the picture that is used on the top. We sort of like the "columns" picture better, but we don't really want the columns picture as it stands. It is just a better kind of look. (By the way, what do you think of a picture that is a series of gradient bars going from dark to light with *****.Org on it?)"
This was about when I started drinking that day. It was 2 in the afternoon, but at least it was the afternoon.
- Crouwel0
"I just want it to be perfect..just something subtle like erm.. a reflection of the globe ..a sunny hue"
does anyone really type "erm.." and "uhm.." in their emails????
- Fariska0
when done show us the logo :-)
- digilee0
i just got this back from a client after providing 12 scamps ..
"i love it but can we make it more designerish"
- mydo0
- skt0
I quite like the last two. But not the colours. Maybe even out the swooooosh so its more like a horizon.
- JazX0
there's a reason i don't do this kind of work anymore.
*cracks whip at two punks below me
- skt0
there's a reason i don't do this kind of work anymore.
JazX
(Jul 20 05, 07:01)You spent too much time in Africa?
- Rand0
awesome.
don't forget to make it bigger.one.
- TheTick0
Honestly I don't like any of them..all the ones with the line through the word makes me think someone has crossed out the name...And the stars in the D make the word unbalanced...
Why not run an arched swoosh under the type and stars under that - and you can change the size of the stars and tell the client you made the size of the stars represent the size of the various continents...I am sure they'd be impressed by that...
- mydo0
in the end he went for number 1. which was actually one i designed in the very first draft. all the others are just so he can see what he doesn't want! maybe i should add some more sunny hues.. cheers for the moral support guys.
- QuincyArcher0
"swishes with an orange or orange red horizon on top of the platinum, still like the idea of 8 somethings in the background (a bling thing in the best possible taste natch..v auspicious too) "
mydo
(Jul 20 05, 03:26)
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i swear i heard this exact same thing in a Mars Volta song.
- tkmeister0
your client is sooo poetic. i am jealous.