Comments on: Freelance Freedom #13

By: carte blanche. « The Inky Eagle

carte blanche. « The Inky Eagle — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:59:54 +0000

[…] Yi Wei carte blanche. May 8, 2008, 3:59 pm Filed under: Uncategorized Thought this comic frame was fitting given my annoyance at BOOM’s lack of guidelines (from freelance freedom). […]

By: Blue Zolar

Blue Zolar — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:17:37 +0000

I am going to open a restaurant and call if the “Freelance Cafe” — then when people come into eat we are going to serve them “creative culinary dishes” that we really like — so our client patrons just need to eat what we serve them like it or not because all that matters is if we like it. They just have to pay us and also tip us for our service. So what if they are Vegetarian — damn it, they will eat our creatively prepared beef dish and pay us for the privilege! And if they are Jewish, they’ll eat pork if we feel that is the creative plate we need to serve them. Fish on Fridays for Catholics, no way — that is a cliche, they’ll eat our chicken masterpiece and go to hell. Diabetics… too bad, “sugar” is a creatively better, so they can eat our sugar apple pie and die. People allergic to nuts, hey as long as they pay before they might wheeze to death, they can learn to suffer for our culinary art. So what would you like for lunch? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Don’t make me laugh — that shows how simple minded you are when it comes to culinary art. You will have our fried eel and walrus testicle Pièce de résistance de jour. Bona petittie.

By: Benek

Benek — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:50:20 +0000

so true!

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:31:39 +0000

Its these types of people that are the worst imo…

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:16:06 +0000

The three morals of this story are feedback, feedback and feedback!

Manage your client so that they can regularly see progress and provide input from as early on in the design process as reasonable.

By: Michael Dick

Michael Dick — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:01:19 +0000

One reason why I refuse to work on projects that don’t have any direction.

Clients who let you have freedom only seem like good clients until you present the work to them…

By: xadrian

xadrian — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:14:09 +0000

I lettered a comic for a client once and after asking all kinds of questions and making sure deadlines were set right and expectations about delivery were settled I asked what font they used. I had a cache of stuff I used regularly but would always make a purchase if they had something specific. They did so I went and got it. They saw the lettered page and said, “This isn’t the font we wanted.” Oh, well, good thing I spent $20 on it. They ended up going with a free font I suggested earlier.

By: James Mitchell

James Mitchell — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:42:35 +0000

Absolutely true!

As a web designer, many times clients believe they don’t know what they want, until they actually see something. It is very important that you try to gather as much information as possible before beginning your project. It will be worth the extra effort to tactfully seem a little pushy in getting some likes/dislikes.

Oh and this same thing even happens with family. Think about when you are going out to eat and trying to pick a place. “Where would you like to eat?” is asked. “Anywhere is fine.” — all sounds good, until a place is suggested and the common response is, “no, not there.” Too funny!

Moral: Gather information wherever possible.

By: Jörn

Jörn — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:30:09 +0000

Awful. I hate this. Always brings me right to the edge of killing my customer with a stapler.

By: arthur

arthur — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:02:22 +0000

I really like the Freelance Freedom comics, please keep up the good work! Thanks