I wish my clients knew

cornfed · February 20, 2018, 8:43pm

I’ll go first.

I wish my clients knew that a quarter page ad doesn’t scale up to a half page ad.

PanToshi · February 20, 2018, 8:53pm

Ohh, I’ll play!

I wish my clients knew …
that a 13 page saddle-stitched booklet defies the laws of physics.

HotButton · February 20, 2018, 9:06pm

I wish my current client knew that their style guide was written by someone who wouldn’t know an Oxford Comma from an Ox in a Coma.

Buda · February 20, 2018, 9:33pm

I wish my clients knew…
that even though I can spend hours working on an image in Photoshop, it might just be better to reshoot or find a new image.

CraigB · February 20, 2018, 10:19pm

I wish my clients knew that designing something for MS Word or MS PowerPoint is a nightmare. Actually, they probably do know because of the look of death I give them.

KitchWitch · February 20, 2018, 11:03pm

I wish my clients knew that taking a photo with their cell phone, then emailing it to themselves, then copy pasting it into Word and sending me the Word doc does not count as original just because they’re the only person who has handled it.

PrintDriver · February 20, 2018, 11:56pm

I wish my clients knew
what bleed is.

schweta · February 21, 2018, 10:12am

I wish my clients knew …
that when I ask if A is okay or B is okay, the answer is not yes.

StudioMonkey · February 21, 2018, 11:18am

I wish my clients knew . . .
that it’s not ok to make a logo on a template site then send me a screenshot as artwork.

Elewys · February 21, 2018, 3:27pm

I wish my clients knew…
… that you don’t need to fill every available space in the design with text.

Just-B · February 21, 2018, 4:10pm

I wish my clients knew…
that I don’t rent out my hands just to implement their awful ideas (well, actually I will when they insist, but I charge twice as much for that).

zacki70111 · February 21, 2018, 4:22pm

frigge · February 21, 2018, 4:30pm

I wish my clients knew…
…that their friend/cousin/whatever isn’t a designer based on the fact that “they have Photoshop”

Buda · February 21, 2018, 6:44pm

“Bleed? What’s that?”

(did that trigger you too?)

PrintDriver · February 22, 2018, 2:11am

Nah, if they don’t put it in the file I assume they don’t know what it is.
It’s this one:
“None of my other printers ask me to pull bleeds.”
Now that one does make me wonder sometimes…

iraszl · February 22, 2018, 2:35pm

I wish my clients knew how to trust me with what they hired me to do, and not try to ‘help’ with every single detail.

mojoprime · February 26, 2018, 10:15pm

i wish my clients knew that saying “just make it pretty” makes my hair fall out at a faster rate.

HotButton · February 26, 2018, 10:36pm

Heh…or, that saying “Make it POP!” just prevents it from being amaaaazzing.

harrisbrown · February 27, 2018, 12:49am

…what is a postscript font.

TheKel · February 27, 2018, 5:38pm

I wish my clients knew that whenever they ask me, “Do you think it looks good?” and they are referring to my design I just submitted to them, the answer is always going to be the same.