I had to design a book for the history of an African American church in my area. The job was a nightmare. It was pieced together from pdfs, word doc files, spread sheets and terrible scans. After 80 hours of work the bindery made an error and put the books in a black cover, not the requested navy…
THE. BEST. EVER.
Client: “I am having a problem closing my cup holder on my computer. Can you help me?”
Me: “Your computer does not have a cup holder, are you talking about your CD-ROM drive?”
Client: “Oh is that what its for?”
*dead*
Home Sweet Home
I took a design job in the Cayman Islands out of college in 1998. It lasted a week. Here’s why.
Boss: “Can you start scanning these magazines for the nice landscape photos. We’ll use them later for stock.”
Me: “Don’t you think there might be some issues with copyright?”
Boss: “Copyright? Dis is da Caribbean, we got no copyright here mon!”
