You know a project is going to be crap when ...
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- digilee
The client says he wants a logo that looks like google.
- digilee0
the same client comes back to you and says he finds describing the project difficult.
- Rand0
you ask him what he hopes to convey about his company and he says "that's a good question" as if he's never thought about it before
- Rand0
he says he just wants to "tweak" his old materials
- Meeklo0
How about you make everything ornage, and increase the size of that logo by 200%...
yeah, that's good... now move to the right.. a bit more.. yeah.. I like that..
Now grab that animateg gif with the "@" rotating in 3D from my old site and place it below the logo, yeah.. that's good.. I don't even know why I'm paying you..
- chossy0
when they come in with footage on a firewore drive and say lets make it go woosh wee and sort of spin in and out (while doing all the motions with his hans) then when you are ahalf way through something they say nice on ewell done lets move onto the next one your going nice and quickly.
- Rand0
they say they want something "simple" (which equates in their minds to somthing "cheap")
- chossy0
ha ha, on Wednesday I had this one rand.
'Ok I have an ad. to make lets go' we made it in a couple of hours, the time he had alloted then he said lets make the second one!! I said hold on your email says one ad. I know but I've changed my mind!! I want two now, I was like okay go and speak to the facilities manager.
- Rand0
let's face it, I pretty much know it when I receive a phone call of any sort
- digilee0
... when the client says "a friend of mine said he can do it for a tenth of what you quoted", when you originally quoted £500.
- digilee0
... when the project manager "needs the work done by tomorrow" and then arranges a catch up meeting which you wait at for 25 minutes only for them not to turn up when you know the reason is because they're working on their own project AND when you go back to your desk they email you to say, 'whenever you are ready"
CUUUUNNNNTTTTTSSSSSSS!
- kyl30
suggests using Curlz MT to set her name in, oh dear.
- fifty500
... when they want their logo in 3D, with embossing and dropshadows and all that...
... when your boss is a crackhead middle-aged idiot who thinks white space is a waste therefore every project turns into a giant collage...
... when that same boss only uses the word "visuals" for something that could be a graphic, photo, or text...
... when that same IDIOT boss thinks he's a better designer than you.
P.S. kyl3: I think I had that client once.
- Snowblinded0
The client says he wants... you to think outside the box, something clean. Cool, but corporate.