I love it when clients...
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- __TM0
love it when the client's decision maker tells the rest of his team to shut up and listen to us, since "we are paying for their advice". I almost cried when that happened.
- We all wish we could have been there.
*high fiveETM - I had that too its fucking lovely!!ablessingindesign
- I was there with you in spirit.gramme
- beautiful.mydo
- hahaha, about timepillhead
- oh my god!!! I've got a lump in my throat *snif*Projectile
- We all wish we could have been there.
- showpony0
i gotta say, i don't mind this... i mean, it's a way for you to get into their thinking, and a chance to see them try to articulate their usual verbal message into image and metaphor. sounds like a decent start to me.
- that's why he said he loves itmonospaced
- haha, okay, this is telling... i thought he was being sarcastic... the default assumption of qbners!showpony
- t_rock0
tell you they had a friend "design" it in MS Word
- I guess everyone's just going to be sarcastic instead of actually posting what the love about clients.monospaced
- scrap_paper0
About six months ago my mom passed away from cancer. During the last few months before she passed my time was hugely compromised and I had to tell my biggest clients about the situation. Not very professional but I had to explain why the work was being affected.
After she passed away one of my clients sent a very personal condolence card. Totally unexpected and very touching.
I love it when clients...
...are actually human.
- Juddly0
...trust me.
- mydo0
....Send me this email...
"Oh, Uau... I love it!!
Ok! Lets say thats it! I am gonna send that to BCN! But I do love it! I just can feel it!!! this is the one!THANKS!!!!!
mua
Anna"
- Amicus0
...when clients love your work so much they bring you food and drink whenever they visit.
- sneakybadger0
... pay extra off their own back (this actually happened once) .. like a tip I guess??
- arthur0
...respect my time, abilities and experience.
- inteliboy0
... ask for a logo redesign. Then you work your ass off, mostly overtime, present some of your proudest, best work... and they don't like any of it and point back at their original crapfest ms word created logo. Aaaarggghh.
- PIZZA0
Order a website and try and trick you into doing them a new identity too. Then say they should get an identity for free because they were so "prescriptive" about the design... prescriptive meaning sending over powerpoint mockups cut together from the 3 designs they turned down.
- Peter0
I love one of my current clients.
Branding project, new product coming out. There's even Snoopy/Peanuts involved.
1st they provide me with outlined problems/target/hopes and competitor information I asked for. They do it within days and hand it over in a tidy word and excel doc.
Secondly they agree to estimated time without fuzz, with ample hours to develop something good. They agree that in order for it to turn out well the hours are justified.
Third, they are eager to provide me with whatever material I have told them I will eventually ask for. They want to know what, and soon, since they're just as excited as me to get this thing rolling.
Forth, it takes but a few days after asking for an up-front payment until they had it transferred.
We go out fine-dining, we -do- karaoke and there's lots of trust between us. It's clients like these that makes me sad I will one day once again be snagged back into an agency.
- RumperChunk0
...I want to steal these people from you.
- Depends. How good are you at karaoke?Peter
- very good, when I'm drunk. Then I sound sooo sweet, and the women look sooo good..RumperChunk
- 74LEO0
Its nice but too creative. We want something more corporate.
- juhls0
haha @ original post
- hans_glib0
Our firm is preparing to go public for world-wide trading of our company stock on the NASDAQ and we are wanting to building an identity. We desire to have a logo with one hand giving a document (rolled up life insurance policy or flat but definately legal looking document in a hand) to another with that hand holding money showing the trade of the policy/document for payment/money. Our colors are lamborghini verde green and black.
We will pay $100 USD for this
- set0
Send this as brief...
"fresh as a daisy" is a good 'feel' as it fits with the site aims. So, some pink but not too much, and plenty of white. Maybe some daisies. Maybe even pink ones.
- Projectile0
Actually answer all 3 questions in reply to your email... in the same order, and actually think about each answer.
(as opposed to the usual answer question one and then go off on a tangent)
- autoflavour0
lick my balls
- elahon0
Pay WAAAY in advance. Last job, I got the complete check before I had even started sketching ideas out.