Archive for the ‘from HELL’ Category
Skinned alive
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: January 12, 2009
Friend’s Dad called me in for a project quote. “You’re the only one I’m talking to! No other designers!” I even wasted fuel to visit his office. Once I got back from the meeting, my assessment was, “Whatever I quote – even if it half of what I usually quote, his balls are going to [...]
Time-wasters
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: December 30, 2008
There really should be some way to charge stupid clients who live in dreamland hoping you’d do the work for them for free. Charge them for the time they waste. I’ve practically given them a solution to change their crappy Flash into usable CSS and JS and I’ve also told them how much I’ll charge [...]
Family members can be the worst clients
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: November 25, 2008
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I shot at a wedding recently. There are about 200 ’selected’ photographs, which need to be edited. And not just color balancing, every woman wants their pimples removed, the men want their beer-bellies shrunk and of course everyone should look fairer. It’s been three days since the wedding and apart from these photographs, I need [...]
Long time no blogging
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: November 13, 2008
I’ve been around. Been working mostly. But off late, because of the economic downturn I guess, work’s almost zilch. Which is just as well. Been chilling mostly. And bitching about clients too.
There was one client who refused to communicate for more than two months in spite of my repeated emails, phone calls, text messages. I [...]
I want something simple
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: February 28, 2008
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Is not equal to free!
What the fuck is wrong with people – do you get onions for free? Then how can you even think that design services will be for free? I mean… HOW!?
Sure you’re a Life Coach – like you’re saving humanity – and you have a website your Sister-in-Law’s son designed for you [...]
Spoon feeding
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: February 16, 2007
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There’s a new client on the block. Owns two companies – old-school, traditional businesses, no visual identity [ or a very bad one wherever it exists ]. Wants the corporate identity designed, the websites, the printed collateral etc.
Calls me up twenty times in a day – would call me in the dead of the night [...]
I love your work, but…
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: January 23, 2007
If I had a dollar for every time this happens, I’d have a couple of million since I started work in this line.
One way to tackle this would be to reduce the rates by half – that would ensure that I get the business – don’t lose a client. But then that would also terribly [...]
I’m good.
Posted by: clientsfromhell on: January 23, 2007
I just totally hate it when clients try to design themselves. Why hire me then? I’m doing a logo for someone right now and the number of iterations have been prohibitive – the client side involves three decision makers – I am interacting only with one because they assured me no more was necessary.
Now [...]
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 [...]
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