This would be why you don’t sign the contract until you have some confidence that you’re on the same page as the client. Although, it does ocassionally happen that you think you’re all together and then…
Two of my heroes (Neil Gaiman and Stephen Sondheim) have said pretty much the same thing. “The hardest thing to write is when you’re told, oh just write whatever you want”
Ah, the ever-popular way for drink makers to get advertising. Brings to mind when Guinness enlisted the famous poet, playwriter and piss artist Brendan Behan to devise a slogan for them. The story goes, he took payment only in beer and in advance. Locked himself up until he had finished the beer and came out with “Guinness: It gets ye drunk.”
Uh oh, I didn’t much like the sound of that… :-/
Snobby, because you can’t go wrong when you’re getting snobby.
Every single graphic designer and commercial artist in the world absolutely DESPISES that sort of instruction: http://clientsfromhell.net/
Oh yes, I give you no idea at all what I wish for but I will yell for an hour if I don’t get it!
I know the feeling.
“Okay, here’s some text. Can you turn it into a brochure?”
“Do you have any photos to go with it?”
“Can’t you just use Google?”
“…No.”
This would be why you don’t sign the contract until you have some confidence that you’re on the same page as the client. Although, it does ocassionally happen that you think you’re all together and then…
Two of my heroes (Neil Gaiman and Stephen Sondheim) have said pretty much the same thing. “The hardest thing to write is when you’re told, oh just write whatever you want”
I’ve heard of Snobby Winery, its an ice wine and when its opened it has a nasal tone that makes you say “I wanna go to MI-AM-MI!”
Ah, the ever-popular way for drink makers to get advertising. Brings to mind when Guinness enlisted the famous poet, playwriter and piss artist Brendan Behan to devise a slogan for them. The story goes, he took payment only in beer and in advance. Locked himself up until he had finished the beer and came out with “Guinness: It gets ye drunk.”