Client Rage
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If we're getting onto related experiences now... I was once instructed to put a photograph of each of five band member's mothers on the back of a CD single. A CD single is 120mm square approximately so each of the 5 images could only be a couple of centimetres in diameter maximum, and that's with all the essential text and logo stuff partially going over the top of them. After sending a visual for sign off I was told not to overlap anything on the photographs and to make each photograph "at least 5 times bigger". I tried very hard to explain why I couldn't do this but I failed to pursuade the record label executive.
I had a very interesting conversation by telephone later that day with the label's band person and the upshot was that I was told I had to make each of the photographs "at least 10cm square" with no overlaps. To drive her instructions home she shouted them down the phone at me on a joint conference call with the band and the band's management. She explained to everyone on the call that she had resorted to getting us all on a conference call so that the band could witness for themselves that it was me being deliberately obstructive and not her.
I then told her I would do exactly what she said and I wouldn't charge her for it, but she would have to draw all five 10cm boxes in pencil on a template so I could see exactly where she wanted them. She shouted that this is exactly what she would do and it spoke volumes about me and my capabilities that she was now having to design the sleeve art herself on pieces of paper. She really shouted me out and slammed the phone down.
I never got that design from her though, I just got an email from an assistant an hour or so later, asking me to take the photographs off the sleeve art and to lay it out like all the previous singles.
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