Clients From Hell

Archive for December 2006

Corporation’s new logo – The Onion

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: December 19, 2006

Parody on a company’s logo change.

Mr. Intermediary

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: December 17, 2006

The end-client is not very savvy about corporate identity and branding and what it can do for his company. He probably doesn’t even know that there are people who make a decent living [ ok, live like kings ] doing corporate identity and branding ONLY.
The client’s friend is someone who knows what branding is all [...]

They have the money…

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: December 14, 2006

…but they don’t know what a logo is.
This particular client has money to pay, they did not negotiate on my initial quote – they said they liked my work and wanted only me to do it. So here I am doing their logo.
Problem #1 : “Mr. Design Designer, we don’t know what crap this creative [...]

Fonts for free

Posted by: clientsfromhell on: December 13, 2006

Another pet peeve of mine is that for some reason clients don’t get it that fonts are not free. That typefaces and fonts need to be purchased from font foundries. That some people actually have careers in font design and development.
My deliverables almost ALWAYS include submission of font/typeface used in the project. And each time [...]


Clients From Hell : Yeah

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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