With over 15 years of design experience and most of that working as a freelancer, I have more than a few horror stories about my clients. Here’s a collection of shit clients have said to me. Enjoy ‘Shit clients say to graphic designers’!
“I don’t like it, but I don’t know why.”
Client
“Hey, just calling to let you know I’m about to fire you over an email”
Client
“Hey, we have a quick change, shouldn’t take more than 5 mins”
Client
“Can you add a pit of pizazz to the design”
Client
“This looks perfect. Amazing. Now can you please do it my way”
Client
“I’m on Internet Explorer 3 and the website is not loading properly”
Client
“Can you add social icons to every page to help us go viral.”
Client
“I’ll know what I want when I see it”
Client
“If you do this job for free we will have plenty of paid projects lined up for you.”
Client
“But we know someone who can do it for 50% cheaper than you”
Client
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“Can you send me the design in Microsoft Word so I can edit it”
Client
“Can you just use the logo off our website?”
Client
“You’re the designer here. Can’t you just do your creative magic?”
Client
“I want you to choose another font, something fun like Comic Sans would be nice.”
Client
“I love it BUT let me just ask my wife/kids/dog what they think.”
Client
“I asked for a logo not a font”
Client
“Can you not just remove the shutterstock watermarks”
Client
“I really like that color but can you change it”
Client
“We wanted an animation not a cartoon”
Client
“Here’s something I whipped together in Microsoft Paint, can you make it look like this”
Client
“no pressure, but I need it ASAP.”
Client
“can you not just Photoshop it?”
Client
“I’ve just contacted another designer who’s cheaper. can you send me all your design files?”
Client
“What do you mean fonts cost money?”
Client
“I need the final design tomorrow morning, will send over the brief by end of day”
Client
*use lorem ipsum for copy filler*
Client
“Why are you writing everything in another language?!”
“I can do that in 5 mins!”
Client
“can we make the logo just a little bit bigger”
Client
*emails website_design.jpg*
Client: “Hey, nothing happens when I click on the button. “
Client
