Since 2009, a group of young designers has been publishing “Clients From Hell,” a blog that’s part humor, party therapy for any designer whose ever had a difficult, rude or downright moronic client – and really, who hasn’t? It was only a matter of time until the site developed enough content for a book, and that time has finally arrived. It makes a great gift for any disgruntled designer friends. Here are few choice tidbits:
“Here’s the link to the Share account I created: C:Documents and SettingsMy DocumentsShareBox”
CLIENT: “I just sent you the corrected copydeck.”
ME: (checking my emails) “I don’t see it. When did you send it?”
CLIENT: “A few moments ago. Check your fax.”
ME: “Whoa, what, no… And this is all in handwriting too?!”
CLIENT: “Yup…”
ME: “We don’t have the resources to rewrite the entire document based on your handwriting. Please, do all the corrections in the Word Document, like we asked, and send it to us so we can integrate it on the website.”
She sent me the Word Document a couple hours later – she had scanned the faxed document and copied – pasted it in the .doc, telling me that she expected her website live any time now, since we had everything. Sigh.
ME: “What about lions?”
CLIENT: “Lions are just fruity tigers.”
