Client of the Day
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- registe0
I wrote my client outlining materials yesterday and received glowing approval for my suggestions regarding a packaging wrap I'm designing. I woke up and shot down my awesome idea from yesterday this morning with a new one, I get this as a reply.
"Wow! I’m impressed. This looks even more amazing. I wish we had you designing our packaging all along..."
Dear 2011, you've been good to me. Thank you.
- mydo0
client has just sent me a PDF of 20 scans of print outs of 20 numbered jpgs that we sent them. the pdf contains no notes it's just so that the page number can refer to her notes. each page having the same number as the original jpg.
i feel like returning the deposit and just stopping altogether.
- thats why I got an Alienware, no shit.coldarchon
- clients sent 200MB pdf with 8 RAW BITMAPS in it..coldarchon
- each page took 3 to 5 minutescoldarchon
- BusterBoy0
"The home page needs more boxes...how about a news box with some scrolling images. And an events box. A what's new box...I'm not sure. Just do some more boxes and see how it looks".
How about fuck off?
- i love 'see how it looks' like you know full well you're going to be re-doing anything you show them.mantrakid
- this is when photoshop comes in handy... to show them how shit it'll lookProjectile
- slappy0
"You do some concepts, we will work out the content and photography later"
- mydo0
too long for the punches thread today...
Spent one month working on a re-brand of a venture capital firm. Client meeting today after seeing the 6th round of revisions of a chosen concept."do you know, they have a phase in English (i'm English he's not), if it ain't broke don't fix it, let's just use our original logo (looks like it's for retard shoes) can you just make it 3D, I have a friend who has an animation company you know"
- bjladams0
not even a joke:
"go ahead and print them, we will finalize the color scheme when we pick them (banners) up later tomorrow."
- bjladams0
just finished up a 200+ page publication to go to print next week- everything went incredibly well - then the client told us that they just re-read the contract with the printer, and it's going to be b&w.... it will still print fine, but the amount of hours we've billed for that have been taken up with deciding on colors is amusing. plus, there's a whole 30 page spread titled "a color story" that's all about, well, color...
- vsplus0
A client, a few days ago:
"Can you make the credits / link to your website [my website!!!] a bit bigger on our homepage and add more contrast so it's easier to read. We're so glad to work with you."I almost fainted.
- bjladams0
a client has been sending quite harsh emails to me all day about a project not being ready on time. the project is finished and in a sealed dated envelope and was delivered a week ahead of schedule- which they signed for according to freight records. just haven't bothered to open it yet. i'm considering letting them get everything off their chest before responding.
- animatedgif0
"Why does it look like that?"
Because you signed it off and were happy with it 2 days ago? It's not my fault you've shown it to your boss and he hates it. Maybe if you can't sign off things your boss will like then maybe you shouldn't be allowed to sign anything off at all.
- bjladams0
"we'll be looking to have the content to you friday afternoon before 5. we fly out at 6:30 and would like to see the layout before we leave - is that possible"
"no, sorry - i'll have it to you next week."
"what about saturday or sunday?"
"we avoid the office on the weekends, keeps the level of our mon-fri work up. if you have content to me by end of day friday, i'll have it to you by end of day tuesday, enjoy your flight."
"perfect!"
- bjladams0
client just stopped in to let us know they're on the way to the post office to mail our check...
- bjladams0
"we're basically looking for someone that can mimic your illustration style, but for a lot less money- can you recommend anyone? - preferably locally..."
- pressplay0
"that brochure is A5, right"
no, I told you it‘s A4, the content wouldn‘t fit on A5
"can‘t you just make everything smaller?"
sure I could do that, but the text would be hardly readable in 5 Pt
"just do one in A4 and one in A5"
- MrT0
Client sends us 8 photographs, 5 of the images had photographer's details in the filename. Need to credit the photographers so asked client for remaining details.
Client, "what's the name of the folder the images were in as we can't find them anywhere."
For perspective, let's just say this client recently released an eagerly awaited DSLR...
- bjladams0
strange email has just come in from client:
"we received the invoice, but feel that the final amount is not right and should be much higher - we'll advise on a new total soon"
- they are going to ask you to redo everything.lvl_13
- haha, project was finished weeks ago. all work is signed off on and has been delivered.bjladams
- that's what you thinkanimatedgif
- bjladams0
this is good.
a client is a make-up artist, she supplied photos for a website that we're making. i've got the images blown up on the screens.
just then, another client comes in to pick up some printing and just stops and looks at me like i've done something really wrong. turns out, the model in the pics is his sister (who lives in another city) - thought i was going all stalker-ish as they are recent and he hadn't even seen them yet. hahaha.... almost got weird....
- Small world but maybe your clients know each other?freedom
- MrT0
They're back again.
I'm doing the latest issue of their magazine, working on a spread announcing a new printer. In the background are cyan, magenta, yellow and black shapes (I'm not pushing any boundaries) ... but the comment just came back to change them to RGB because this particular new model prints in RGB.
This massive global company is known primarily for it's C@non cameras and C@non printers.
- sleepyfatso0
Are you sure the news section on the website should be called news? Shouldn't it be more funky so people will click on it? What about if we call it, "Da Buzz".
- i want to click on it alreadytimeless
- forms like:
Submit ?
[fo'sho'] / [na', dawg..]mikotondria3 - I am clicking but it is not doing anything... take my money.Knuckleberry
- I had a client fight to use 'Skuttlebutt' instead of news. After what I presume was a large number of confused phone calls, it is now 'news'monNom
- ...confused phone calls, it is now 'news'monNom