Give me reasons
- Started 12 years ago
- Last post 12 years ago
- 48 Responses
- iCanHazQBN
why contact information should be on the back of a brochure. It's a 4 page brochure (one fold). Basically a pamphlet. This fucking secretary is asking me to put it all on the front... email address, phone, fax, website URL, and it really cheapens the look of an otherwise nice clean design.
I can't seem to word it right. It just doesn't look right to have that stuff on the front cover. How would you word it? I need to be able to convince a dolt insensitive to the subtleties of design.
- e-pill0
do you answer your creative solutions to the secretary or the client whom you have a contract with?
- <monospaced
- This is a tiny job and am doing it as a favor to someone because they helped me out.iCanHazQBN
- Small company, like 4 employees, and she's the one who emailed me asking for this brochure.iCanHazQBN
- monospaced0
You're the designer and she's not?
- She wouldn't understand that concept. That's the issue I'm running into.iCanHazQBN
- Can she understand that she can just design the fucking thing herself?monospaced
- yupmoldero
- CALLES0
she hot?
- JG_LB0
just put it and collect your monies and move on
- CALLES0
can we get pictures?
- of secretary in questionCALLES
- http://www.xvideos.c…iCanHazQBN
- she likes frontlessfloor
- iCanHazQBN0
I asked her, and she said she'd let you put the tip in.
- utopian0
Be sure to make the fucking logo bigger!
- ********0
Obviously money is your God.
- monospaced0
Put her in the trenches; give her your seat and free reign with Indesign/Illustrator.
- breadlegz0
Sounds like you didn't establish at the start that you are the man... so you can't expect them to listen now.
Learn your lesson !!
- lolmonospaced
- this was a small side job that took 8 hours to complete, and all communication was done through email.iCanHazQBN
- I'm not exactly going to go through a normal, lengthy, or contractual process with this.iCanHazQBN
- "All communication was done through email". For some reason I read 'email' as 'smell' which made that hilarious.identity
- monospaced0
Your other option is to add it to the front, but make it look good. Be a designer.
- Ha!********
- Put her on her front and spank her ass until she begs for forgivenesslessfloor
- Ha!
- iCanHazQBN0
I'm just going to advise against it, see what she says.... then if she pushes back one more time I'll just put it on the front and move on.
- ********0
Innovate your brochure to have TWO fronts, and ask the secretary what to do...
- iCanHazQBN0
The part of her email that really got me was the end...
"Thanks Bunches! :)"
Kill yourself. And take me with you.
- kona0
I think you kind of nailed it on the head with your first comment.
"..and it really cheapens the look of an otherwise nice clean design."
Tell her this and maybe say "People will read the brochure front to back. Having the contact info in the front will force people to backtrack to the beginning and search for it. So it's been designed conveniently at the end so they can easily find it once they're done."
lol at the marissa mayer photo above. haha!
- ********0
"Recent studies out of Oxford show that an overwhelming 93% of brochure viewers will place the brochure face-down after looking at it. By placing this critical info on the back, we are actually putting it on the the front."
- brilliant!
kona - 87% of all stats are made up
JayCee - A thread of these things!identity
- YES, thread of intelligent bs stats/commentswhatthefunk
- brilliant!
- Fax_Benson0
Put the contact info on the front but inform her that there is no longer room for the front on the front, and that you'll have to put the front on the back. You've still got your nice front (on the back) and she's got her info that should be on the back on the front.
- CALLES0
haha. so you are getting orders from the one person in the office that everyone gives orders too!
i guess she sees this as her chance to boss someone around
