Website Shout Out: Clients From Hell

If you’re a designer, or even just know one, you’re familiar with this: most of the time clients are about one idiotic request away from sending the creative staff into a searing, shatter your smart phone against the wall, kick a baby seal type of rage. Thankfully the website Clients From Hell documents exactly what its name implies while also giving the pissed off designer a chance to vent through an anonymous venue. I’m sure some of you readers have your own horror stories, so get to sharing.

Here are a few favorites:

#1 Make Them Disappear
Client: “We don’t want people to think that everyone using our service is black. Can you make most of the people white?”

Me: “They are stick figures, I don’t think there’s going to be any racial profiling.”

Client: “Well you’re using black lines for all of them. We want to see most of them as white.”

Me: “Don’t you think that would look even more racist? Besides, it’s a white background, the white stick figures would disappear.”

Client: “Then change it to a black background and make the black people disappear. I don’t know, just figure it out.”

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#2 No Title
Client: “Let’s get together and figure out a way for you to work more hours for less money.”

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