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2000+ Pro design elements for 99% off! Only $12!

This week's deal is on an enormous bundle of tools for every occasion! 

> Seriously, it's got something for everybody, and for every occasion. 

As a designer, your jobs have recurring needs. Every February you need some Valentine's material, every summer you look for a tropical look, every Black Friday your clients need new marketing materials and you're ALWAYS looking for great textures to elevate your work! This bundle covers all that and more with over 2000 professionally designed elements that you'll use time after time, year after year. The gold metallic textures alone are worth their weight in... well, you get it. 

All the elements in this bundle retail separately for a total of $1600, which is insane, but for the next week you can get all 2000+ for only $12 — which is also insane, but in a good way! 

> Check out the deal here! 

 

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Client: Check your email. I sent you something funny.

Me: Um… weird, but okay?

I checked my email and the client had sent a photo of his toilet with a big turd floating in the water.

Me: Why did you send me this?

Client: Tell me that’s not the biggest shit you’ve seen his year.

Me: ...

Client: Right? 

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Client: Our focus for the coming year is getting more leads. We need to get the word out there about what we do. 

Me: OK! Let's optimize the website and run a brand awareness campaign to bring people into some targeted landing pages…

Client: I really don’t think we need the website for this. I have some new brochures bring printed at the moment. That should do it. 

Me: ….

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Client: Can you do something with that graphic of the triangle?

Me: Yes of course, what do you need?

Client: Flip it 360 degrees.

Me: Uhm, do you mean 180?

Client: No, 360.

Me: Sure…

I flipped it 180.

Client: Yeah! That is exactly what I wanted! I don't know why you didn't believe me.  

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I’m a graphics designer at an ad agency in Germany.

My client repeatedly asked me for various changes to the designs that were not allowed according to the company’s corporate design guidelines. Eventually, the following happened:

Me: Sorry, these specific changes are not permitted by the design guidelines.

Client: Can't you just use another program that will allow these changes?

Turns out they thought “corporate design guidelines” were some kind of design software, and that every time we told them we couldn’t do something it was because of technical limitations in our software.

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Client: Please include our brand’s themes of nature, business, and magnets.

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For several months I worked on a moderately large e-commerce website. The site had been online for thirty minutes when I got an email from the client:

Client: Please remove the “soon online” message from the website.

Me: I’m not sure where that you’re seeing that. Could you send a screenshot or a URL so I can see where the issue is?

The client then pasted a google search result link where that message was still in the preview.

Sure lady, I'll just call Google and have them update the text for you.

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Client: I want the logo to have a modern feel.

Me: Sure, I’ll create some mockups.

Skip ahead to next week.

Client: I like it but it isn't quite what I had in mind. Can you just use Times New Roman in extra bold? I really like that font. I use it on everything.

Me:  (struggling to comprehend this request) …?

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Client: Can you make these elements the same size?

Me: The one platform is much smaller, so not without making the other one smaller.

Client: I know they're different sizes, that's fine, but can you increase the small one to match the size of the large one?

Me: ...

I actually like this client a lot. Charming, straightforward & accommodating. We all have moments where we need to roll our eyes.

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I mostly do illustration as a hobby, and I do very few small online commissions. My brother-in-law decided to approach this holiday season to draw for his friend's newly-designed board game.

Client: So my friend made an amazing sci-fi board game, and the mechanics are basically done. A publisher has contacted us, but we still need an artist. The only artists I know are you and my [12-year-old] daughter, but my daughter's too scared. You know board games are credited for both their game designer and artist. Think of the fame.

While he's explaining the game mechanics to me, I'm imagining the tons of illustrations they would need, let alone designing original characters and assets for everything. And of course they're implying they want free/cheap art, since they want me to do it for exposure AND they thought asking their young daughter is a good idea. I ask to see what else they're doing about it.

Me:  I don't specialize in the style you'd want or designing sci-fi things. Why don't you look for artists online?

Client: Well, my friend has been going on to this site where freelancers bid to take on projects and share samples. But they're all from India, and my friend's not happy about the samples he's getting.

Me: (questioning the credibility of the site, and these guys' respect for artists and designers) ...

Client: Why don't you just do it? It's not that hard.

Me: ...it takes time to design a cohesive style for characters, ships and whatever else. You want everything to look like the fit in the same world. 

Client: Look , say I want to draw a character with goggles, but I don't know how to draw goggles. Just go on google and keep drawing a pair of goggles, until you're confident with drawing goggles on your own.

There were so many things I wanted to say him after that line, but I generally dislike talking to him for other reasons. I just wanted to leave ASAP. Basically, I just felt awkward every time I was in the same room as him for the rest of the holiday. 

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