Many people fail to appreciate the knowledge, experience and effort that can go into making a good design, which can make life difficult for designers. Some of the most annoying emails that designers regularly receive from terrible clients have been gathered into a funny list by Joshua Johnson, a writer at Creative Market. These emails will make creative workers pull out their hair in frustration!
Do you work in the creative industry? If so, tell us about the worst emails you’ve ever received in the comments below!
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Share on Facebookthat's soooooo annoying! I got clients telling me, I can do it myself in publisher! f**k you! don't waste my time and do it yourself then!
Oh yeah! "Give me Photoshop and I will play all day too" attitude - I do not know if it more scares me or make me laught :P ;) ...
Load More Replies...How about you made a good offer to a client, he refuses it, get's the job done 'for free' somewhere else and then asks you to fix the errors
we asked a client to provide the logos for their catalogue, next day we got a shoebox full of tags and cutout logos
I have just received a winner!!! Client: Please have a look at this movie Robocop 2014 in the below like at 45 min 50 secs (for a minute duration) [link included] Similar to the trees seen in this movie I would like some slender tall trees here in this area if possible.
Emailed from a client... "We all think you logo design is just brilliant, masterful. But my wife thinks it's too simple. She played with it in Photoshop last night. Which one should we go with?" 20 attachments.
We got mail from client saying: "Loading on screen is wrong english. It should be either downloading or uploading... " it was pre-loader for the website :D
well they are paying you to do a job. if it were painless they wouldn't pay you to do it.
my favorite is when I ask for an editable version of the logo (Ai. Eps. Crd.) and I receive them with a JPEG in it :))
my favorite is when I ask for an editable version of the logo (Ai.Eps.Pdf.) and I receive one with a JPG in it!!!
If you work with annoying clients, the reality is that you are a bad designer.
Why I don't miss designing: "Can't you just Photoshop it?" I dunno - can't you just suck it?
Client: Mark, nice work. Can you provide three versions of each of the options (10) please. Me: would love to open an art gallery for you
I like the ones that start something like this: "I just need you to....." to me "Just" is a 10-hour word.
Uhhh why not? If the brochure consists of stock photography, some lines or boxes and some text there is no need for Illustrator or InDesign
Load More Replies...https://useuseuse.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/designers-complaining-about-clients/ — why this is wrong
The client is not always right. We do not study a 4-year program and have years of experience, for someone to come and tell us how to do our job. No. Do you tell an architect how to do his job? Do you tell an engineer how do you do his job? The only snobby attitude is to think you know more than a designer. To think his job is useless, and yet ask for his service. And P.S. we are so underpaid. They do not pay you the extra time you work for, the many changes they ask for, the many hours of skype calls and meetings they request, and the psychological burden they leave you with.
Load More Replies...that's soooooo annoying! I got clients telling me, I can do it myself in publisher! f**k you! don't waste my time and do it yourself then!
Oh yeah! "Give me Photoshop and I will play all day too" attitude - I do not know if it more scares me or make me laught :P ;) ...
Load More Replies...How about you made a good offer to a client, he refuses it, get's the job done 'for free' somewhere else and then asks you to fix the errors
we asked a client to provide the logos for their catalogue, next day we got a shoebox full of tags and cutout logos
I have just received a winner!!! Client: Please have a look at this movie Robocop 2014 in the below like at 45 min 50 secs (for a minute duration) [link included] Similar to the trees seen in this movie I would like some slender tall trees here in this area if possible.
Emailed from a client... "We all think you logo design is just brilliant, masterful. But my wife thinks it's too simple. She played with it in Photoshop last night. Which one should we go with?" 20 attachments.
We got mail from client saying: "Loading on screen is wrong english. It should be either downloading or uploading... " it was pre-loader for the website :D
well they are paying you to do a job. if it were painless they wouldn't pay you to do it.
my favorite is when I ask for an editable version of the logo (Ai. Eps. Crd.) and I receive them with a JPEG in it :))
my favorite is when I ask for an editable version of the logo (Ai.Eps.Pdf.) and I receive one with a JPG in it!!!
If you work with annoying clients, the reality is that you are a bad designer.
Why I don't miss designing: "Can't you just Photoshop it?" I dunno - can't you just suck it?
Client: Mark, nice work. Can you provide three versions of each of the options (10) please. Me: would love to open an art gallery for you
I like the ones that start something like this: "I just need you to....." to me "Just" is a 10-hour word.
Uhhh why not? If the brochure consists of stock photography, some lines or boxes and some text there is no need for Illustrator or InDesign
Load More Replies...https://useuseuse.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/designers-complaining-about-clients/ — why this is wrong
The client is not always right. We do not study a 4-year program and have years of experience, for someone to come and tell us how to do our job. No. Do you tell an architect how to do his job? Do you tell an engineer how do you do his job? The only snobby attitude is to think you know more than a designer. To think his job is useless, and yet ask for his service. And P.S. we are so underpaid. They do not pay you the extra time you work for, the many changes they ask for, the many hours of skype calls and meetings they request, and the psychological burden they leave you with.
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