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Enjoy - produced for a client who would not pay me:

arrhh! The worst type of client.

very "cool" image though

This image was for the front page of a certain young ladies swimsuit web site. The whole site was developed with her approving every single move I made. Then, I received a phone call from this ”designer” who asked me for the files. He said that he had approval from the young lady to get them off me - my answer - taking a running jump.

I am a great believer in ”What goes around, comes around”

Great image there Chris - I'd be keen to know a bit about your workflow on this assignment, must have been a tough job!


Geoff.

Geoff wrote:Great image there Chris - I'd be keen to know a bit about your workflow on this assignment, must have been a tough job!


Geoff.

I say this with the greatest respect coz I just love women - but in my years as a designer if I had problems, it was normally with women clients.

Workflow consisted of constant meetings so that every single step I made was approved - the client got what she wanted but obviously thought I was a complete sucker and would just hand over my work files to a ”designer” - read that as friend of hers. She never paid me but she never got the files and she was informed that if her final website even approached my designs she would flayed

Wow... A good reason to demand some payment in advance!

MHD wrote:Wow... A good reason to demand some payment in advance!

Absobloodylutely MHD - most of my clients are top name but this one was a friend of a friend - yeah right!

I now have a credo that says ”if you are a friend I will do the job for nothing or my charge is this - up front” - in other words they know from the word go if there is a charge or not.