N.C. Winters is always drawing. When he isn't making comics, doodling or working as a freelance graphic artist, he spends his time painting pretty pictures for galleries from his home studio in sunny southern California.
Don’t you just hate when the clients talk like they’re the designer?
The real challenge is to explain how stupid is their idea without making them look stupid too. You are the professional and it’s your duty to educate you clients but you still don’t want to embarrass them, right?
What do you do when the client doesn’t even have a clear idea of what he wants to place in the concept, but he is perfectly certain about HOW he wants the layout.
You know, the “I have a dream, but I’m not so sure what it is about” client.
How do we wake them up?
Have had a client bring on her 78-year-old relative as a consultant. The relative claimed to be a web designer and found fault with pretty much everything (ack)
Hahaha aces! I’ve got a client exactly like this, asks for a design and when I present it to him he wants to make the most idiotic changes, basically ending up with his own design which looks horrid haha!
Ha ha! I had a client one time that always reinforced, “Now, make sure it’s 300 dpi.” He said it at least 80 times throughout the course of each project. Did he really think I’d have forgotten something like that?
It’s amazing how a client can attach to a single term that they somehow learned and think they suddenly know everything about what that term entails (except they inevitably use it wrong). So sad.
Woa woa and how do you save on 2000dpi? Oh okay I SEE,
I will actually make it this way I will split it onto like eight part and and burn each on a dvd individualy okay..
Haha I once had a customer insisting that I used their RGB values for a print job…
RGB instead of CMYK for your print job? Sure! Makes perfect sense. Just look at how many more colors you get!
lol, better make it 3,000.
Heck, why not OVER 9,000?
yah, tell him “I will make it over 3000 for ya” …. he will very happy with it.
Haha
Internal dialog: Just let it slide — it’s not worth it.
HAHA that is awesome, I don’t get to do much print these days, i can only imagine what clients ask for these days!
That’s exactly what I am feeling like today.
Haha torture…
Don’t you just hate when the clients talk like they’re the designer?
The real challenge is to explain how stupid is their idea without making them look stupid too. You are the professional and it’s your duty to educate you clients but you still don’t want to embarrass them, right?
What do you do when the client doesn’t even have a clear idea of what he wants to place in the concept, but he is perfectly certain about HOW he wants the layout.
You know, the “I have a dream, but I’m not so sure what it is about” client.
How do we wake them up?
Haha! Oh, I’ve been there!
Had the same problem with a person who “knew all about website designing” but wanted me to make one.
Have had a client bring on her 78-year-old relative as a consultant. The relative claimed to be a web designer and found fault with pretty much everything (ack)
well yea, obviously he knows everything, he just doesn’t have the time, sheesh, be a little more understanding! 8P
hahahaha @ Griffin.
Hahaha aces! I’ve got a client exactly like this, asks for a design and when I present it to him he wants to make the most idiotic changes, basically ending up with his own design which looks horrid haha!
This happens way too often Celwin. Then they wonder why it doesn’t look good.
I had to “fire” a client last week because of a similar thing and a whole more last week.
“I had to fire a client” – that’s why I love freelancing.
Ha ha! I had a client one time that always reinforced, “Now, make sure it’s 300 dpi.” He said it at least 80 times throughout the course of each project. Did he really think I’d have forgotten something like that?
It’s amazing how a client can attach to a single term that they somehow learned and think they suddenly know everything about what that term entails (except they inevitably use it wrong). So sad.
One of the worst things I’ve seen is an entire sales team using the term “paginate” completely wrong when making sales pitches to c-level executives.
Woa woa and how do you save on 2000dpi? Oh okay I SEE,
I will actually make it this way I will split it onto like eight part and and burn each on a dvd individualy okay..
Charge by the DPI.
You want 2000dpi? Sure, that’s $4k.
6000dpi? Just multiply the 2000dpi figure by three.
What? You only need 300dpi? Well there’s a minimum charge of $1999.
Now there is a concept!!!
Suddenly 300 dpi will be just fine! – But then you’ll need to explain why 10 dpi won’t work 
I HATE WHEN THIS HAPPENS!!!