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- chossy
This is to help out helvetica so he/she doesn't feel too bad :)
What is the worst thing you have done?...
Me : I didn't send an advert out to a station and the ad never ran!!! it cost thousands and thousands of pounds.
- Spanna0
fucked up a cutter guide so me and a gang of lovely collegues had to sit and hand cut a curve on about 2000 folders, after work. Didn't cost money but cost respect. Respect is priceless.
I always double check cutters now though and do mockups.
- JerseyRaindog0
Sent a calender to print with all the same dates for each month...
5k reprint.
- sleepyfatso0
We just got a diary for 2009 back from the printers, proofs stage still thankfully, we had 28 days in March.
- hardly panic stations?.. come on give me the worst.chossy
- ESKEMA0
sent out final artwork for print with objects in white overprint...
- set0
I left out an 'r' on a Directors business card and it went to print.
His name was Gary
true story!
- skt0
i once got my little sister to put her hand on the top of a fence post then hit it with a spade.
- Kidswift0
Dropped a tray full of 60 Champagne flutes in the middle of a wedding speech while working part time as a waiter and design school. Fucking waitress forgot to put a slip mat under them...300 people turned to see what the noise was, never before have I prayed for invisibility so hard....
- Haha I dumped a tray of champagne flutes down the father of the grooms back on New Years Eve!d_rek
- sleepyfatso0
I guess this guys feels like an as...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_po…
- vcr0
bullied an old friend at school into taking acid with me, and he got sent off to "reform" afterwards!, pretty bad like , he changed for the worst..
- monoboy0
Sent costs with markup (and sarcasm) to the client instead of my boss. Entourage just autofilled the clients email instead, similar names. Didn't check. Not good.
It was a proper slow motion nooooooooooooooo when I saw it leaving the outbox.
- I've done this once, how did you explain it to the client? was your boss cool with it?Mallmus
- Kidswift0
oh snap just about to post that yeah try explaining losing a 1.5m contract because you lost the flash drive while out on the booze...
- blaw0
Spell-checked a document with Quark set to the UK dictionary. Sent out 30,000 copies with words like "colour" and "organisation"
- no mistake there then.chossy
- Just as well it picked it up, I cannot abide American spelling.monoboy
- sounds like you did them a favour/favur?Spanna
- The weird thing about Canada is that both spellings are acceptableGlitterati_Duane
- I needed Chossy on speed-dial the following day.blaw
- It's called the 'English' language for a reason.Jimbo82
- moth0
I'd have given you a raise blaw. Good job, well done.
- PromotionalUseOnly0
went to amsterdam to present to ABN Amro... but I put ABM Amro... we didn't get the job
- moth0
I can't think of anything.
- Kidswift0
Me an a mate set some public gardens on fire (by mistakes as kids) our excuse hardly redeemed us though....but mum we were only trying to scare the tourists by firing fireworks at them from our slingshots we really didn't mean for it to get so out of hand.....
- chossy0
stop posting life mistakes make with the posting of the job mistakes.
- PromotionalUseOnly0
forwarded a mail from my auntie about my grandads funeral to my girlfirend saying something to the effect... of I don't want to say this shit... etc.. etc...
only i didn't foward it, I replied.
- harmsie0
I once did a record sleave for a band, it was so elaborate and expensive that every time a single was sold the company lost money. I hoped no one would buy it. It went number one and nearly bankrupted the company.... Oh wait sorry that wasn't me it was Peter Saville, f@ck ups can happen to anyone.
- what album I'm going to go buy it :Dchossy
- hahababaganush
- every time it was sold it lost money? that doesn't make sense surely the print run already existed?capsize
- He's talking about Blue Monday, (12" single, not album)kingsteven
- I had that as well.JerseyRaindog