When to Fire Your Graphic Designer
Filed Under: Customers, Design
Where I work (day job) we use a handful of local graphic designers primarily for print work. Well we sent off one print job to a local sign printer according to the specifications he requires. Not a problem. Right?! Well his “graphic designer” couldn’t work with the .eps file we sent (fonts were converted to outlines, etc. which is standard for sending a job to a printer). So he decided to change all of the artwork to “fit” him….it’s time for the print company to fire that guy’s ass. We aren’t happy with the work that was done, and will not pay for it. And I’m sure we are not the customer that this has happened to.
We had our graphic designer to the design work, paid her for it, got the client to sign off on the work after a few rounds, and then this printer’s graphic designer at, quite frankly, a whimsy decided to change it? Who the”F” does he think he is? And yes, it’s a “he”.
And another time to fire when is when the work they do looks like crappy clipart. Now if you’re thinking I don’t like clipart…well some of it is good, but way too much of it isn’t.
