Problems Designers Face
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- designaked0
People walking in 5 minutes before I'm about to leave with changes that I've been waiting all day for.
- fullerc0
you dont get the execs from the client standing around the new car saying "you really ought to put the exhaust there and what would the wing mirror look like on top?"
UndoUndo
(Sep 21 05, 13:30)
HAHAHAHA
What if we changed the "PASSAT" font to Comic Sans?
- Spanna0
A little knowledge is very very dangerous....
Clients who are frutrated designers...
Word.....
- arinya0
Gucci and fuller... you described the BS at the office I work at as well. It happens almost all the time here! The AE or Sales person has a project for weeks and then decides to bring it to me 4 days before it needs to go out and they want comps, bound books, CD presentations and some of my blood to drink before the client meeting! I don't understand why they always do that! I"m working on a project like that right now!!!!!
- Spanna0
Oh no arinya you sound like you might be coming down with a cold, how are you feeling? - maybe you need to take a few days off to recover....
- Gucci0
... and some of my blood to drink before the client meeting!
arinya
(Sep 21 05, 13:35)lol
I'm still waiting for the day my boss asks me to do a 200 page catalogue, website, promotional material, mockups (out of pocket), and midwife his child.
- gruntt0
you are all my brothers and sisters.
gawd bless us all.
- UndoUndo0
i feel better now.
*cricks neck
- Spanna0
its like therapy..
- jakeyj0
today my problem was fixing a site that was originally built 640x480 to 800x600.
Who the bloody HELL designs a site 640X480?!?
x2 on the bringing in changes 5mins before I leave....
- bulletfactory0
i received this email (after the project was checked off and done)....
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I have a new person coming on board Thursday and I would like all of us involved to have some input here. Let me get back with you next week with some additional information.
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wtf would someone brand new need to give input?//let's let everyone have a say so the project turns out like a homogenized piece of shit.
i feel better :)
- pepe0
clients that are frustrated wannabe designers are generally speaking called Ad agencies, The bane of my commercial existence often.
- fullerc0
Project B got the green light, stuffed + posted the 400MB file......later that day....."do we have time for one more change?"
- fezenstein0
Having our boss explain to us that we are nothing but "local designers" doing "local design" - then outsourcing all the work because he's doesn't want to "get into" explaining what he wants to be built.
- Gucci0
challenge for September 22, 2005:
coping with no air conditioning in a dungeon-like basement with no windows and poor circulation... without passing out.
I'm already starting to see white spots when i look at the screen. the lights in here do that to me too.
- i_monk0
• The daily race to see who can stay later than 6, and the expected "is there anything I can help you with?" if you try leaving on time.
• Listing to my boss puff up his lame ideas as if they're exiting and zow wow biff pow, everyone will love it!
• Trying to fill the hours of the day. I have next to nothing to do cuz my client and (other, cooler) boss are away for a while.
• Watching everyone's workload increase as our client list gets longer, but knowing it'll be a cool day in hell before another designer is hired, because that would mean leaving on time.
• Knowing that no matter how perfect a piece is, that first boss will find something to change. Kerning! Really! He wanted the kerning changed!
Actually this job is pretty good.
- robmoff0
the creatives love it. the owner hates it. start over. client hates it. start over. client hates it. show original that was scrapped by boss. client loves it.
clients wife hates it. client scraps concept. start all over.
client: "can we have someone in a gorilla suit?"
creative: "but you are a pizza restaurant!"
boss: "nothing says 'pizza' like a man in a gorilla suit! now, back to your cage!"
- bot0
Why do I earn less than a plumber?
- robmoff0
client says:"we are looking for something new. so think outside the box"
translation: "nail the lid on that damn box!"
client says: "i love it! i think we may need some minor changes but this is fantastic"
translation: "the commitee of 19 is going to bastardize this little gem right out of your portfolio and into your nightmares. BWUH HA HA HA!"
- renaphuah0
no variety.
i dont work for clients, just in house, but they refuse to use anything other than arial and impact fonts. they have this thinking that stylish/retro fonts are not good.
sometimes the visuals and the fonts dont match; it makes me look bad as a designer.