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The bundle of bundles! 26 best-selling bundles for $21!

This week's deal is some kind of giant, mutant MEGA deal, created from 26 other popular bundles at less than a dollar apiece. 

> You could make the case that it's a meta deal.  VERY postmodern.

There's so much here - thousands upon thousands of amazing elements that are incredibly useful. Textures, patterns, image masks, vector symbols, vintage illustrations (including some SUPER COOL retro video game system diagrams), halftones, vintage wallpaper patterns... It's a lot. A LOT a lot. This is among the best deals we've ever promoted here. Give yourself a gift. You're worth it.

If you bought all 26 of these bundles together on their sale prices, they'd add up to $375. Again, that's if you got them all on sale. For the next week, you can get a sale on that price and get all 26 bundles and its thousands and thousands of useful elements for just $21 - that's literally savings on savings. 

> Check out the deal here. 

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This conversation took place during the design phase of a typical website project.

Client: We should use the gallery widget from [well known video service provider] on our new site! No sense in us creating something new, when they have one we can use already.

Great! Client demonstrates good understanding of embeddable widgets and the value in using them.

Me: Excellent idea, we’ve done our research and can see it’s as simple as logging into your account, and getting an embed code from your provider. We will include a sample in the design and set this up for you during development.

At this point, I supply a link to a page showing how this feature works, and what the output looks like.

Client: No no no, you’ve misunderstood completely. The provider won’t code for us and we don’t know how to code either. As discussed you have to log in and set up the gallery for us.

Me: No problem, it sounds like we’re talking about the same point. Our plan is to do exactly as you’ve suggested. We will log in and handle the setup for you. It’s all in the project plan we provided.

Client: You’re still not getting it! We won’t be doing this ourselves. You have to do this on our behalf.

Me: …

This exchange continued for quite some time. The client was adamant that we didn’t understand and got more irate. Eventually, they begrudgingly accepted we were talking about the same thing all along.

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$50 still okay?

In my spare time, I create custom clothing and costumes for clients. This exchange just happened verbatim, but I swear I have a version of it at least once a month.

Client: I really want you to make [this] and I need it in 2 months. Can you do it?

Me: Let’s review the specifications and see if we can make it work. If you could fill out this form so we can determine budget and materials, I’d appreciate it!

Client: Well I can only spend $50 and it’s gotta be really shiny!

Me: Unfortunately, I don’t charge for less than $100 on custom pieces. I have to factor in cost of materials as well as my time to create and execute the garment.

Client: What? But you’re just going to make it with cheap stuff. It shouldn’t be that expensive. I can get [this] for $50 in China. You can’t charge more than that.

Me: $50 rarely covers the cost of materials. I can’t promise you a quality garment. A number of those oversea vendors have workshops and distribution centers to allow for faster, cheaper pieces. But it doesn’t result in good quality. So if you do buy one from them, you risk getting a cheap product.

Client: Screw you. I’m going to buy the other one and tell everyone you’re ripping people off!

1-2 months later.

Client: So that dress I bought fell apart when I first put it on. Can you make me one? I need it in 2 weeks. Is $50 still okay?

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Unsupported browser, unsupportive client

The project my company is working on relies on UnityWebGL to run (though it was previously a Windows Standalone application). 

Client: We’d like this to run in Internet Explorer 11 or Firefox. 

Me: (after some testing) IE won’t load it, but Firefox works great. 

Client: Why? You can’t get it to work on IE at all?

Me: It seems UnityWebGL doesn’t work in IE11. From the site, “IE11 is not a supported browser. It is only listed in this compatibility table for completeness.”

Client: Can IE11 run this if it’s hosted on the machine and run through IE?

Me: no, IE can’t support UnityWebGL player at all. IE11 is not a supported browser. 

Client: Understood. 

Client: (5 seconds later) Try it anyway for sh*ts and gigs. 

Me: It errored, with the message "Please note that your browser is not currently supported for this Unity WebGL content. Try installing Firefox, or press Ok if you wish to continue anyway.“

Client: …and? Did you click ok?

Me: Yes, I clicked it and it errored out. Because IE11 isn’t a supported browser. 

Client: Clearly you’re doing something wrong. If it works in Firefox, it will work in IE11. 

Ever had a client not believe the truth? Let us know! 

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Snippy Tool

I was working on an animation project for a client.

Client: We need to have a stronger design for this character, something that really sells this project and company. 

Me: Alright, that sounds fair, the design does need updating.

Client: Look around for inspiration. Are you familiar with stuff like South park, Simpsons, Family guy, Jungle Book, Cinderella, that kind of stuff?

I have a degree in animation. I’ve watched and studied cartoons my whole life.

Me: Uh, yeah.

Client: Well, they all have good design, so work on making this character stand out.

Me: Okay, well I can work on that. Talk to you later.

They called me 5 minutes later on their personal phone.

Client: Just to let you know, don’t get tense about it, but you came off as a bit snippy with me, like I’m wasting your time or something.

Me: …Oh, I apologize, I didn’t mean to come off that way-

Client: Well you probably didn’t realize, you need to work on that if you want to continue being a team leader. Talk to you Monday.

Why is it always people on the lower end of the stick who have to grow thicker skins? I guess “uh, yeah, I know the most basic touchstones of my discipline” was enough to bruise this ego.

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If it’s good enough for Microsoft, it’s good enough for me!

I’m doing a print layout the a 350-page book for a family member, who didn’t listen when I said repeatedly InDesign will do all the formatting, and tried to make everything perfect in MS Word first. About 20 hours in, reviewing the draft PDF I handed over to check for typos…

Client: The images are in different places. I put in extra spaces and stuff to make them line up, but you took out the tabs in front of the paragraphs.

Me: If you want first line indents, I can change that easily. But please don’t worry about the formatting right now, I’m not done.

Client: But the page numbers are going to be different…

Me: (joking) Well, if you want it to look just like the Word docs, I can just print those to pdf and collate them.

Client: Would you? I kind of thought that was what you were going to do.

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Never stop starting: Personal Trainer Adam Bradley on how Creatives can stay healthy

Working from home is the new reality, and with it comes a very, VERY sedentary lifestyle. Without having to leave your house to do anything, it's easy to fall out of fitness and into new health problems.

Personal trainer Adam Bradley works with artists and creative workers one-on-one, offering personal consultations about how to keep in shape in ways that work for you. In today's episode offers host Kyle Carpenter some tips about how to stay healthy while working from home, and his philosophy of why exercise shouldn't be a shame-based chore. 

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I was tasked with adding links to a clients’ eBlast newsletter.

Client: My assistant Linda sent the email back to me, the link isn’t working and we really need to get this message out!

Me: What happened? As long as she didn’t edit that part of the letter it should be fine. Send it back to me and I’ll check it.

Client: The only thing I see that’s different is the president’s signature was added. But, the link definitely doesn’t work.

I get the email and immediately see the problem. The entire letter is now an image! Linda had to have copied the message body into a Word document so she could print it out and get the president’s signature. She then scanned the signed letter and inserted it into an email as a picture. The text that was supposed to be linked still appeared in underlined blue but was no longer clickable.

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Client: We know a designer could’ve created a montage, but we want you to photograph this because we want the images to be real and not Photoshop-ed.

After I took the photos:

Client: Can you take this bit of image A, and Photoshop it onto image B; paint out the background, change the color of the logo….

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