Clients From Hell

Archive for July 2006

picking Fonts

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: July 30, 2006

It’s Sunday. And I am having a HARD time finding the absolutely grossest fonts – because the damn client doesn’t like any of the “sensible” fonts – I now have to look around for fonts that totally suck and I thought it would be easy – but it’s one of the toughest things I’ve done [...]

so What do you want?

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: July 29, 2006

CLIENTSPEAK
“I want a sexy logo.”
“I want the allure and the aura of my brand to be visible in the logo.”
“I want it to be different.”
“I want you to use your judgement and create this absolutely stunning logo.”
“I CANNOT pay you your asking price – but you need to make your wonderful talents available to the [...]

delayed

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: July 28, 2006

I started negotiating the terms and conditions with this particular client about six weeks back. They STILL have not decided on what the hell they want to do!
In one of the first communications, I told them my quote, the timelines, the terms – and they still want to negotiate – why can’t they just tell [...]

NOW you tell me how you want it

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: July 27, 2006

Well, I’ve gone and done pretty much the whole logo. Logo-design principle says it should be SIMPLE, CLEAN, UNIQUE – a unique identifiable mark no?
So I did that – presented a wonderful shape – excellent symbol – with all the meaning of the brand integrated into it and the concept integrated into it – [...]


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Bitching about clients. The bad ones. And boy are there many. The good ones are meant for the real, company-linked design blog. The bad ones go down in history here - I wish I could tell them to their face where they're screwing up but then I'll just be a poor designer instead of the decently rich one I am now. Compromises.

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