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What Terrible Clients Might Say About The World’s Most Famous Designs

Kevin Whipps Last updated: April 12, 2024 · 1 min read

Have you ever had a client or customer that got to be a little bit irritating? Maybe they wanted a tweak here or there, and sure, it was manageable. But at some point they crossed the line, acting more like a designer than they had any right to. After all, they came to you, and you’re the professional, right? Where do they get the stones to tell you how to do your job?
Can you tell that I’ve been in this situation before? Like, earlier today, for example? Well so have the fine folks at Graphéine, who decided to take things one step further. What if they took some of the world’s most famous (and successful) designs, and provided critiques from a hypothetical client? Yeah, it’s that good. I don’t want to spoil the whole thing, so be sure to read about it over at Graphéine. That said, here are the pics to whet your appetite a bit.
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The Louvre Logo

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Bob Dylan Poster

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Tournée du Chat noir

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Anatomy of a Murder

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Hi! My name is Kevin Whipps, and I'm a writer and editor based in Phoenix, Arizona. When I'm not working taking pictures of old cars and trucks, I'm either writing articles for Creative Market or hawking stickers at Whipps Sticker Co.

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14 Comments
  • how sad :( 9 years ago
  • Terrible Client? Oh, my sweet summer child :) seems the designer didn't lay the foundations of the design rationale... once you communicate clearly the direction to the client you probably won't get pushbacks. 9 years ago
  • This made me laugh. Also, laying out a design rationale is never guaranteed to prevent pushback. There are just some clients who want the design exactly to their specifications and their tastes, regardless of any sort of rules of design you lay out. I thought this was a humorous way of looking at it. :) 9 years ago
  • Going through this right now. The "not sure if it's my screen..." had me crying. 😂 9 years ago
  • This is daily life for an in-house designer; too real to be funny, 9 years ago
  • those logos sent in a .doc killed me loool 9 years ago
  • "Add logos . . ." Good Lord! Story of my life. 9 years ago
  • I'm not a designer and I laughed out loud 9 years ago
  • Lol. Very funny, but real. I get the "Make my logo bigger" often and change the header color to my favorite color - diamond white. Diamond white?, that's gray. "looks great, men love it". What? Okay :( 9 years ago
  • Why I stopped doing customer work. This is BEYOND true! The pics in .doc format was spot on! LOL!! 9 years ago
  • Been there. The only taste some people have is in their mouths. Ugh! 9 years ago
  • oh lawdy. Too true. The definition of designer should be "one that abandons their hard earned designed knowledge to get paid." Haha. WhaWha 8 years ago
  • Thanks for sharing. It really made me laugh a lot...I can relate:) 8 years ago
  • Haha, these are great! At first I was laughing but now afterwards I remembered some clients and not sure if i should be horrified instead ;) 8 years ago