I love it when clients...
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- mydo
...send you a mock up of their website like it's a school art project. I've just got one, made using cut outs from magazines, glue, tape, bits of photocopies and pencil lines (drawn with a ruler).
- dijitaq0
...send you images but they're embedded in a word document.
- +1pastpastdue
- Just had this toograham
- save as a .docx, then change file name to .zip, uncompress zip, find media folder...alnove
- images should be original resolutionalnove
- Wow, Alnov, that worked!MakeBelieve
- that was damn useful.... will save in my bag of tricks.. thanks!vaxorcist
- whoa, nifty lil trick man, thanxfyoucher1
- thank you, thank you, i'm here all weekalnove
- god damnjuhls
- yup74LEO
- nicely, nice.ItTango
- Continuity0
... send a very low-res postage stamp-sized JPEG of their logo for a print assignment.
- pillhead0
Is your client on drugs.
- Raniator0
...send EPS logos saying "I can't actually open this, but it might be what you want"...
- ahah. had this the other day..ESKEMA
- And then you open it to discover it's their previous one from five years ago.Continuity
- oh yeah, always wrong!Raniator
- or its a jpg saved as an eps.rodzilla
- It's always a gif grabbed from the website and resaved as an EPSRanger
- alwayskingsteven
- dijitaq0
@hilcev
a couple of years ago i helped an architect friend create promotional items for a real estate the company he worked for was working on. his boss, the lead architect, did not know how to use cad programs so he would create concept floor plans and elevation views using.... microsoft excel!- what the fuck!bigtrick
- i would love to see one of his excel documents...SlashPeckham
- yeah go on recon and grab some.74LEO
- miesvan0
a complete book about food, with 360 pages...in freehand!
- detritus0
...Pay.
- drgz0
This is very different and satisfying approach to work, since the only contract with electronic media is either visual or sound, but here you are actually touching your creation
- mydo0
surprisingly i wasn't being sarcastic.
- mydo0
...don't read QBN
- bjladams0
i always like it when they put together a little craft presentation, be it a school project look, or a pencil drawing that looks like a pictionary sketch- it shows that they've put some thought into it, and gives a reference for what they like. it's better than "perhaps something modern- but that old people will like too- i've always liked that one comic book font"
- d_rek0
I'd say on a whole i'd be rather impressed if a client sent me anything beyond: "Hey i've got this idea it's pretty fuzzy and I can give you almost no background can you run with it?"
+1 for gluesticks and craft paper
- Ranger0
I spent a couple of days last week taking a clients 10 minute ppt rough layout for an intranet and bringing it into line with their identity - only to have them come back with 'no, we'd really rather it looked more like our visual' lurid colours, nonsensical navigation and all. I love it. They figure they've done the hard bit.
- the "wow" factor often trumps any communication factor.... maybe they have nothing to say?!?vaxorcist
- moth0
Nothing wrong with that... I'd be grateful for a client that has actually thought about what they want rather than pipe-up 2 days before launch.
- yeah, they even roughed it out... you'd figure that would make your life easiermonospaced
- I can see why you might think that way, but they are insisting on a menu on the left, right, top and bottom, buttons downRanger
- either side, widgets, blidgets, feeds and animated banners galore with no logic in navigationRanger
- welded0
...wanted us to "fix" how the date was formatted in an HTML email. Their screenshot referred to the 'sent' field in Outlook.
- welded0
1 - Scan it
2 - Make it an image map
3 - Profit!