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- Projectile0
- LOL that's doing the rounds on LinkedIn right now too. Copywriters everywhere howling in a chorus of despair.Horp
- But as everybody always eventually concludes... It's just fucking Brewdog, so who fucking cares.Horp
- no one bothered to say the phrase out loud before going to print? lolprophetone
- MrT5
- Everysingletimethumb_screws
- sure honeyOBBTKN
- LOL!sab
- I really thought this was behind us : (MrT
- tank021
Found this on LinkedIn.
What a hellscape
The Role
Responsibilities
• Utilize Al tools such as Dall-e & Midjourney to generate up to 500 lifestyle images focusing on toothpaste tubes and associated elements per month. The access & subscription for the Al tools will be provided.
• Implement Photoshop skills to refine and enhance Al-generated images, incorporating brand elements, such as logos, onto generated images as needed. Please note that you should have your own subscription to Photoshop.
• Uphold image quality standards and align with specifications for website placement.
• Interact with stakeholders globally, ensuring effective communication and understanding of varied requirements.- Please note that you should have your own subscription to Photoshop.tank02
- I'll take it. Link?palimpsest
- still not filled apparently:jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.drjobpro…jonny_quest_lives
- hans_glib0
We are looking for 2 x videos to be animated and made for us, one explainer and one brand video. We will provide the full script and storyboard we are looking for someone to make these explainers and videos for us including putting the voice over on in 3 different languages.
We are looking to pay 100 per day.
- PhanLo1
- https://www.instagra… Pearl Jam are shitePhanLo
- WowYakuZoku
- I would draw nice picture, took posters and had a nice time doing it.robthelad
- _niko8
So we pitched an engineering firm for a decent sized project and they finally approved it after whatever internal approval process they had in place.
The pitch was 8 years ago.
- hahah, but they get to pay the same rate, right?
Right?Nairn - Haha fuck no...was thinking the same thing_niko
- 8 years of inflation... double up!Gnash
- HS2?BaskerviIle
- That's engineers for ya. Get ready for them to question every step of the project, and your resultscanoe
- lolmilfhunter
- hahah, but they get to pay the same rate, right?
- canoe0
Client just went ape shit, mostly brought on by his technical inadequacies, during an emergency meeting where he was completely unclear on how to match the content document to the mock up. A little levity was needed so I dropped the old Eff Bomb Jar joke and he came through eventually. Fuckin' Wall Streeters!
- sted3
Brand new client with a nice project what looks like a long term gig for 3-4 people. Got me awesome super excited really quick, after some nice talks we understand each other, everything is alright.
I asked for a skype contact, got an invite.
Nickname includes "trump".
A world collapsed in me, right now all I can think about is when is it going to go crazy...
- grafician3
- blue sky = hope future.... such a genuine 'client' level amend.shapesalad
- "try with a happier picture" lolmaquito
- There's an ongoing joke between friends, "I'm the God Damn Designer". Luckily Milton Glaser never had to deal with worrying about standing up for our part.canoe
- canoe1
Last night was an unparalleled real-life nightmare. The kind of situation you know 'could' happen working in design, but never had until slack pings, "He really wants to see this idea."
4.5 different shapes or typefaces in a two word logo with 6 letters. This logo is so bad - even though it was designed by committee - I'd still never show my face here again.
I previously provided 20 ideas, at least 2 acceptable by my standards. So at this point I'm kinda perturbed right, so I had to mention that maybe it's not the logo and it's the name of the app.
After all that I feel like I have designer's nausea this morning. It's been a while, but that good ol' feeling of cognitive dissonance has kicked in.
If every client had a jingle this would fit nicely -
- OBBTKN0
During a meeting last Friday:
Me: By the way, you haven't sent me the material in high resolution yet...
Client (a sales manager): (name of the intern) hasn't given it to you yet? Honestly, we don't know where she is, she hasn't shown up at the office all week...
And I mean, an employee (even though she's an intern) doesn't show up in your office all week, she doesn't show signs of life, and you don't even bother to worry about her? Not only for the proper functioning of the company, for professionalism, etc. If not, for humanity? Maybe he is not well, something has happened to her or who knows...
Apart from seeming despotic, cynical and unprofessional, he shows not to have the minimum of humanity.
- He probably mixed a little too much azucar and narcissism in his bullshit-for-the-day elixircanoe
- whatthefunk3
- sounds like a Hayoth requestutopian
- lol... probably genuine.shapesalad
- whatthefunk?canoe
- Conflicted. Tell them they’re a moron or take up the challenge to make it happen. Like every client request_niko
- utopian1
^^^^^.
- Experience is everything. Charge what you're worth!canoe
- hourly rates... it's not plumbing, it's creative work, it takes time to just get into it.shapesalad
- isn't this the basic kind of shit you learn a few years into the job after school?inteliboy
- whatthefunk-1
- Weddings have websites?Gnash
- She has the right to refuse anyone service just don’t be a bigot about itmonospaced
- "Create Freely" - Ironyutopian
- don't give cunts timeimbecile
- Also in the News: A Colorado gay couple say they refuse to hire straight graphic designer to create their wedding website.shapesalad
- notcanoe
- RumperChunk0
I have a US based client, a conglomerate of companies, but big. 60bn a year big. It’s a very specialised in some areas and having worked with their engineers for years now, I have no fucking idea why they make money. Their operations are a joke.
Anyway... last year about May time they asked if I could design a product... I asked for the deets- they sent me a competitors material and said we need to update our existing product to reflect the competition (lazy, but big corp isn’t exactly innovative) to which I respond with a set of questions etc etc. Don’t hear anything until December - and it’s all panic / need it now / let’s go... so I invoice the first stage, in £ - and they pay within a few days. So now I have the money and I’m all ready to go - but I need some important details and info (easy shit like physical dimensions, and model numbers of parts to be used)... it doesn’t ever arrive. It’s a year later now, and despite my emails I have received nothing.
This week I get an email from the account dept saying they want the money refunding, as the project is cancelled. When I ask why it’s been cancelled they tell me it’s because no work was delivered... un-fucking real...
And to top it off the £ has crashed so fucking bad, it might cost me 20% more to pay back if they want the $... all because some lazy ass marketing fuck knuckle can’t get his shit together.
My other problem is I work across the group and have been recommended many times to other subsidiaries... so this could blow up in an awkward way.
Middle management mediocrity’s a bitch.
- Open a spread betting account, trade £/$ next week. Make 20% back.shapesalad
- Put in your conditions, that is there is not reaction to invoice in 3 months, the request of refund is void. Or 50% kill fee.tank02
- Email back from a different email address, a woman name - reply, sorry it's been so long, unfortunately Rumper died in a car crash.shapesalad
- you couldn't find 'easy shit like physical dimensions, and model numbers of parts to be used' on your own?canoe
- oey_oey1
Client needs help redesigning website, make it have less text and focus more on illustration work. Okay.
One year later, after a year not having files to work with, and after 4 changes of opinion on how the portfolio page should look like, and instead of f*cking fill in the text for the work in the portfolio like for a year now, changes the last layout I've made and puts there more text than work.
She's a friend of mine, I've received good money but after two years asking: please fill in the work's info like the year, technique, client, small text, tags and categories...no, messes with the website for the 5th time...
The compeltion o the website hangs now for 6 months in the portfolio page so I can move to the home page, but nothing either has categories or has 5 categories that make it impossible to sort when using conditions...
I think I'm gonna pass, give her 2 months or else I'll have to move forward.
I also do the maintenance and that would be an awkward position but the last year it has been really frustrating.
So, lady please pay Elementor, pay GeneratePress, pay the plugins, find a Cloud Service for your backups that you'll have to do yourself, write the support of your hosting company, learn why tags, categories, capture and description are important, go back your 500 vacation drawings that you upload with your phone and we have to spend one hour to find the one, update plugins, do the damn back-end too, mess and fumble as much as you want, etc etc etc...
Because we have gone full circle! Grrr!...
- sorry, I was in the need to let this out.oey_oey
- fuck, she changed the typography, evertything in the same font, text, titles, subtitles, links in classic blue that don't fit the rest of the color scheme...oey_oey
- titles just in Bold, text not really formatted...
she invested in a template and I've been working around it since March and she just totally destroyed it.oey_oey - like the template was actually never needed. WTF?! I think I'll quit asap.oey_oey
- "The compeltion o " = the completion ofoey_oey