I Hate it When Clients Meddle

“It’s a pretty good design, and the client just has a few small changes. They just want the colors to ‘pop’ a little more with more ‘zing.’ Also, can we get some stock photos of happy smiling people in there somehow? Oh, and they want you to make the Ferriman Funeral Parlor logo bigger.”

Cat sits at computer keyboard while two people standing behind him give instructions
Four years of art school and I work for these bozos. (Twitter)

It’s a living, Andrew Y.

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20 thoughts on “I Hate it When Clients Meddle

  1. Dubravkamcvmd May 23, 2022 / 4:50 pm

    Kitteh looks grimly resigned.

  2. Allein 🐾 May 23, 2022 / 5:10 pm

    Gotta love a funeral parlor that pops…

    • Murray C. May 23, 2022 / 7:57 pm

      With lots of smiling people…

  3. Georgiana May 23, 2022 / 5:14 pm

    Oh yes of course you’re right that’s what a funeral parlour add needs, colours that pop and photos of happy smiling people. By the way if anyone ask you who designed this add, Alan Smithee is the name.

    • Kar May 23, 2022 / 5:53 pm

      Really? You got the famous Hollywood Director Alan Smithee?

      I thought he was busy on the new Giantic Women On the Edge of an Apocalyptic Zombie Tornado Lost in the Multiverse in the Octogon – Part XI. And I heard he’s making it a Dogme 95 movie.

      Excuse me, Cat-astrophe 95.

      • Sedro6 May 23, 2022 / 7:24 pm

        😁

      • Ricky & Bibi's Mom May 23, 2022 / 7:37 pm

        Does this star George Spelvin!

  4. Ricky & Bibi's Mom May 23, 2022 / 5:32 pm

    Designers everywhere grok this post. BIG TIME.

    • Murray C. May 23, 2022 / 8:03 pm

      I have an ad on my refrigerator from a funeral service with a picture of a woman in a dumpy floral dress and big straw hat with the text “You always said you didn’t want to be caught dead in that dress” – admonishing people to prepare in advance for their demise.

  5. Duckie 🐥 May 23, 2022 / 6:28 pm

    Making funeral parlour logos for a living. Snerk. Mike, when science is done with your brain, could you arrange to have it put on display somewhere? I simply MUST see it.

    • allein🐾 May 23, 2022 / 8:01 pm

      Maybe the Mütter Museum with Einstein’s?

  6. JenDeyan May 23, 2022 / 7:28 pm

    Kitty looks like a determined hard worker. Just the kind of kitty I’d want to hire. I’ll throw in pets and treats as a bonus.

    • Dulcie May 23, 2022 / 8:32 pm

      Yes that determined look just kilt me!! 🤣

      I haven’t paid much attention to funeral home ads until recently. When vans started driving around with “Don’t Get Vaccinated” as the ad and the phone number and address of the funeral home. 😁

  7. Hideous Lump May 23, 2022 / 8:41 pm

    Don’t get paid by Ferriman
    Until the logo is a larger size

    • Dulcie May 23, 2022 / 9:07 pm

      🤣

    • Kar May 23, 2022 / 9:34 pm

      Wonder if they’ll use their classic jingle:

      “He’s a man with a PLOT, a man with a plan.”

      • Debg May 23, 2022 / 9:54 pm

        It’s right up there with “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

  8. Maxlover May 23, 2022 / 10:27 pm

    Chris DeBurgh alert!

    • Kar May 23, 2022 / 10:47 pm

      Unfortunately we’ve already fixed a price for the flyers, the grindr ad, the Delta Airlines magazine insert, the X-Games banner…

      • Maxlover May 24, 2022 / 12:20 pm

        As long as he gets you to the other side, it’s cool. Charon’s got bills to pay, too. Oar repairs are just crazy nowadays with all those electronic gizmos, like GPS and Impending Doom alerts!

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