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Client: “Can you make the headline semi-bold?”
Me: “Semi-bold?”
Client: “Yes. Bold is too bold and unbold isn’t bold enough. I think it needs to be semi-bold.”
Me: “… I can bold every other letter.”
Client: “I don’t need to know the technical details, as long as it’s semi-bold.”I can’t wait until this designer realizes that semi-bold is, in fact, a real thing.
I love all of the CFH followers who are pointing out the above in response to this post. You guuuuuys. Are the besttttttt. Designers!! Yeah!!
Even web design has varying degrees of bold supported by the CSS font-weight property (which is CSS1, so there’s no excuse for not knowing about it by now).
I disagree that this is a client FROM hell, but I think (s)he probably feels like (s)he is IN hell.
Me: “Hi Linda. Here is the revised design. Sorry it took so long. There was quite a bit of custom drawing required, but I think it looks great. Worth the effort.”
Client: “That looks awesome. Now if we can change the font to Papyrus, we can wrap this one up.”
This one makes me want to scream a little. I DON’T WANT THIS TO BE REAL.
JAZZ UP THE WORBS
After editing to an entire document of bad spelling and punctuation errors (and then creating a trifold), this is the response I received from my client:
Cuppla thing
1/ its led lighting - shes hold a compact fluoro
font color on green needs to be more obvious
High expense less expense is invalid.perhaps high running cost vs super low running cost caN YOU SEND ME A DOC FILE SO I CAN JAZZ UP THE WORBS WHERE I THINKTA MUCHLY
omg why did I choose this field
For our third exclusive infographic, we decided to picked up on an issue that really has a visible impact in our lives: Consumerism.
Of course, we all enjoy shopping around, and get access to worldwide items, bought trough a simple click of a button. Or drive around in our brand new cars, feeling free, independent and happy. Or go to some exotic restaurant, and taste the mysterious flavors of foreign cuisine.
But, here’s the thing: when we look up at the numbers behind the impact of those everyday pleasures, and think about the ongoing debate about climate change and the all the other environmental impacts caused by that lifestyle, one thing gets clear: we need to change.
Take a look at some of the numbers we’re bringing you here, and think about it.
Or better yet, act upon it.
Striking data, beautifully presented. I love these.
Manga Plates
Japanese design student Mika Tsutai has created a manga plate collection, which features various black and white drawings taking on the personality of a manga anime frame. Depending on the arrangement of food on the plates, an animated visual is created to tell a story resembling the Japanese comics.
(via designboom)
I’m going on a hunger strike until someone gets me those sparkly vintage shoujo manga ones.
Really interesting survey, but not entirely full of surprises, once you start looking at how the numbers break down.
Among professional artists, there were stark differences in satisfaction between different disciplines: more than two-thirds of actors, craft artists, dancers, fine artists, musicians, photographers and writers said they were pleased that they were able to do work that reflected their personality, interests and values. In contrast, about one-third of art directors, graphic designers and web designers reported the same sense of satisfaction. This discrepancy came as a surprise to Tepper, and may have to do with the fact that the disciplines reporting less satisfaction — which also, interestingly, report higher levels of employment (see chart below) — tend to be accompanied by stresses related to producing deadline-driven work for clients and not for oneself.
(Don’t let that discourage you, my fellow designers. We’ll totally be in that one-third! We’re the coolest!)
In any case, it’s a good read. And hopefully reassuring to some of my fellow art grads who are still searching for the perfect job right now!
