8 ways to load a graphic designer

1 Microsoft Office

When you have to send a file to a graphic designer make sure that this fact in any Microsoft Office program, PC version of preference. If you have to send images make sure that these are embedded in a file from Office as Word or PowerPoint, this is crazy again. Do not forget you lower the resolution as you can to the image in this way will have to call you to ask you at higher resolution and when it does, send an even smaller. If you use e-mail to send it forgets to attach the file a couple of times.

2 SOURCES

(Fonts) if the designer chooses Helvetica, Arial you ask. If he chooses to ask Arial Comic Sans. If he chooses to say that Comic Sans is already half crazy and your mission will be easier.

3 More is better

Say you sent to design a flyer. Graphic designers always try to leave blank space on all sides: using large margins, a lot of space between letters and between lines of a paragraph. They say that this makes it easier to read and that the design will look more clean and professional. Bullshit! The reason for doing this is that your document will be bigger and more expensive. Why do this? Because graphic designers hate the people ... well ... babies eat raw. So we ask the designer to use small margins and the text does so very small. You use many fonts and those little pictures that come default in Office programs. They will try to defend their reasons but do not worry, in the end you are the customer and you have the reason.

4 Logos

If you have to send a logo to a developer for a project sure to follow the procedure of sending images detailed in rule # 1 or better yet, tell you get off the Internet or by fax mándaselo. Once the poor devil succeed in recreating your logo design have them do it as large as possible. On the other hand, if you want to design a custom logo make your own sketches on a napkin or ask one of your sobrinitos you draw it for you. The sketch, you have to be as detailed as possible LESS. The fewer the designer understands better because it forced him to make changes after a thousand. Never accept the first proposal by either the ninth. Ask to put a picture in the logo, 3D letters with rainbow and degraded to use at least three types of letters.

When you surrender the tenth proposal tell him you like best but the second that resembles the fifth using the colors of the seventh. This is cruel but remember graphic designers are the number one cause of cancer in our country.

5 Use your own words

When you describe a project to a designer, be sure to use terms that do not mean something like: "I want to design a super father" or "which is nice," "vibrate", "something dramatic". If you prefer using terms contradictory: "colorful but black and white" "conservative but extravagant" Doing this makes the designer one step closer to madness and further away from wanting to continue exercising their profession.

6 Colors

The best way to choose colors for your design is random. You can write the colors you most like in echarlos and slips into a hat and pick blindly. The designers suggest you pick two or three at most but do not be fooled them want to sabotage your work, choose how many colors you want and if you want to change half of the project are around your right.

7 Deadlines

When the designer prompted the adoption of the draft, take your time. There is no hurry, tomatoes two or three days to a week if you want as long as just one day before the deadline for delivery of the project will tell the designer who has to make corrections and changes. This probably causes the liver from exploiting a designer but Who cares? They are responsible for terrorist attacks that our country has suffered lately.

8 Acábalo!

After applying everything on this list to your victim, the designer, by human nature (to be determined whether they are human or not) will feel somewhat unsafe. For now you will realize that it can not meet your needs and abandon all hope of winning an argument against you and will do everything we ask him without respingar. If you want your design in canary yellow with orange letters will. It's easy to think that after all this beam won the war against the designers but remember that the goal is that the designer withdraw from the business. Then you're ready to give him the death blow. When you are making the final decisions on colors, text, images, etc. Tell her that you feel frustrated by their lack of initiative, which he is the designer and should be him who make decisions using their experience and talent, not you. Tell you expected more initiative and advice of your hand and you're sick of their lack of creativity and that from now on you make your own designs in Microsoft Publisher or Word instead of paying for their services.

After that you can be sure that the world will be a graphic designer from which to care less!

Via: an email from my friend Elisa. Browsing on the Web I found it in several places and apparently is a translation of this article.