Our Best Work...

Once in awhile, I find myself wishing I’d never taken on a certain design project. After a few years, I discovered that most of these projects a had one common denominator… “the client wanted to play designer and thought they were better at it than we were.” These projects always start off great. The client sees some of the other work we have done and schedules a meeting with us where they proclaim, “we love what you did for Brand X, we want you to something like that for us… we need help, so we’ve come to the professionals. We know our products, you guys know design, we want you to make us look good.”

How flattering… they love our work… right?! So we put our heads together and present our best work a couple of weeks later. “Hmmm…” they say… “what if we did this? Yeah… or how about this…” Uh, oh… and so it begins.

Three months later… revisions round 23…

Our work has been watered down to the point that any of our work is camouflaged behind the numerous fingerprints of the client and their grim, left-brained committee. The answer is always the same for us… smile, and deliver the finished product. Then, mock-up the original design and photograph it for our portfolio.

Bottom line… “you just CAN’T DO GOOD WORK for some clients.” We came across the quote below a few years ago. Truly inspired if you ask me…