Your Worst Client’s Email Has Been Hacked!
Published on Thursday, October 9, 2008 – 9:00 am | 27 brilliant comments »
In this guest article, Mark Obcena gives us a humorous account of what it would be like to be your own worst client. Mark does this by writing in the perspective of the client who is writing an email to another member of staff. You will enjoy this very original article and you may also enjoy some other funny graphic design jokes and parodies.
From: oscar_yourworstclient@fakeemail.com
To: franklin_seymour@fakeemail.com
Subject: Logo
Hey Frank! I gave Alice [The Secretary] the go signal to post those ads for the graphic designer to do the logo. She says that we’ll probably have to do interviews next week. I still don’t know why you insisted on replacing the old designer we had. I still think my Tommy made a good job with our logo. Don’t know where he learned using that paint program, but you have to admit, that logo is really good.
So I’ll just keep you posted.
Oscar
From: oscar_yourworstclient@fakeemail.com
To: franklin_seymour@fakeemail.com
Subject: Designer Interviews and New Logo
My goodness Frank! You should have been here! Those designers were nuts! Nuts I tell you! I wanted to fire Alice after the last one went out! I don’t know where she got those bozos but they’re crazy!
The first one was this guy from some design firm. I think his name was Barry or Larry or something. Nice guy, wore a suit. So I started asking him questions and looked at their firm’s portfolio. I was impressed actually. Then I gave him the things he needs and a copy of the old logo. And then he asks me whether or not I would like to start the project right away. So I told him yeah we need the logo right away. He said okay and gave me an estimated schedule. Do you know what he tells me? It will take around two to three weeks for the logo to be done! Christ on a crutch! Two weeks??!! I’m not asking him to paint the Mona Lisa! A logo for two weeks??!! My Tommy made the old logo in like, what? Three minutes?
And so I just asked him to leave his card or something to Alice. Then came the next one, some kid named Tristan. A fresh graduate I think, said he was a “freelancer.” He showed me his book with the samples and all. They were good pieces and I told him so, but then I noticed that I didn’t recognise any of the names of the products or the brands and there was this note that said “design concepts” on the samples. So I asked him whether those were for foreign companies. He tells me that they were actually “conceptual designs” - and by that he means that they were just phony companies he did for the book. So I tell him that we can’t hire him because he doesn’t have experience. I mean, he expects us to hire him when he hasn’t even had a real client! And then he goes, “But I thought you said the designs were good?” And I said, “Yeah, but they’re faked, so they don’t qualify.” And I told him that if he really wants to work as a designer, then he shouldn’t go creating designs for non-existent companies. Doesn’t he know he could go to jail for that?! By the way, what are “achers” and why do I need to shove them in my mouth?
The last one was a brunette who works for some other design firm, Pauline. Beautiful girl, though not the smiling type. So I did the same routine, browsed through the book, gave her the details and the old logo. And you know what she did when she saw the old logo? She actually grimaced! A real bitch. But anyway, I overlooked that one because she said that it would take only a week for the logo to be finished. So I said okay, send the designs so I could pick the one I liked. She then tells me that we have to work out a contract first before they can begin working! Mental, right? I mean, what if we didn’t like their work? That would be like buying a car and only getting a test drive when you’ve paid it in full! I told her that and then she begins talking and talking about how it isn’t right to go soliciting work from designers before getting into an agreement. Says that it’s “spec work” or something. I told her, “No that’s assurance. We need to be sure we’ll like your work. For all we know, you could be giving us bad designs.” The bitch stands up, shakes my hand and then leaves! Christ! Where did Alice get these people??!!
Don’t worry. I know you, you’re the worrying type so I took care of everything. Turns out that Bill, the guy from accounting, knows how to do Photoshop so I asked him to make a logo for us. It’s good Frank, it’s really good. I attached the logo so you could see it.
< Super Amateurish Logo Here >
It’s great right? And they tell us you’re the genius..
Oscar
Editors Note: Hope you enjoyed that little parody of the world’s worst client! Please note that all characters were fictional and this article was purely for entertainment purposes only. What do you think? Do you want more of Marks humour?
FUNNY Graphic Design Jokes and Humour
Published on Friday, December 14, 2007 – 11:23 am | 7 brilliant comments » 
Below is a list of the most humorous video clips, pictures, jokes and parodies from around the world wide web, with most of the list being courtesy of AllGraphicDesign and the rest being added myself.
My favourite ones have a smiley face
Funny Graphic Design Videos
Original Design Gangsta’ - Great Rap Video
John Stossel 20/20 - Short & Sweet Humerous Clip
Enter The Serif - An Asian fight between Serif & Sans Serif.
Make My Logo Bigger - Parody of clients asking for their work to be the way they want.
Trust Your Graphic Designer - The Graphic Avenger - A video parody.
South Park - Mac vs. Pc - Computer Commercial
PC vs Mac Spoof - Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs
Holiday Photoshop Advert - A very humerous photoshop.
How Not To Use Powerpoint - A parody of how people use Powerpoint in the wrong way.
Humourous Graphic Design Jokes & Parodies
8 Ways to Drive a Graphic Designer Mad
As everyone knows, graphic designers are the reason there are so many wars in this world. They get inside our heads with their subliminal advertising, force us against our will to spend money on the worst pieces of shit, and eventually, drive us to depression and random acts of violence. And of course, most of them are communists. So to do my part to save the world from them, i made a list of things you can do when working with a graphic designer, to assure that they have a burn-out and leave this business FOREVER.
Graphic Designer’s Judgment Clouded By Desire To Use New Photoshop Plug-In
The aesthetic judgment of Paul Gaskill, a graphic designer working on a brochure for Valley View Apartments, was “severely clouded” by a desire to use a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in, coworkers at Blue Moon Design said Monday.
Hillarious Entertainment Fort Smith Magazine Front Page Graphic Design Error
This really ‘rights’ itself. The major magazine of Fort Smith, Arkansas’s partners in education issue that just came out has the following front page. Partners in Education help our local public schools educate (indoctrinate) our children often working with an elementary school or other individual school. Try to find the huge typo.
25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer
A list of signs that you might be a hardcore designer. A lot of these signs can overlap other professions too. From my experience, the following list contains mostly truths, mixed in with a little humor.
Another You Know You are a Graphic Designer When
Another list of ways to know that you are a graphic designer
You Know You’re a Graphic Designer When
A list of ways you know that you are a graphic designer.
Mac / PC Commercial Parodies
A Parody of the well known Mac / PC commercials.
You Know You’re a Font Fanatic If
A top 42 list for font fanatics.
The UnSpoken Rules of Graphic Design
37 funny rules for being a graphic designer.
The Patron Saints of Graphic Design
A humorous and beautiful page about the unknown saints of Graphic Design.
The Way Graphic Designers Used to Work
Pictures of the tedious way graphic design and layout used to work. Not funny, but put a smile on my face because I’m so happy that things aren’t like this anymore.
Ad-Agency Print Buyer Can’t Believe They Want To Add A Perf This Late In The Game
A fake news story by The Onion.
Area Man Knows All The Shortcut Keys
A fake news story by the Onion
Indexed
Makes fun of his life as a graphic designer.
Pay attention, professionals –or not- in Communication, Marketing and Advertising. These things happen almost every day; sometimes we don’t even notice them. But they’re here to stay. They are verbatims. And yes, they’re REAL.
Murphy’s Graphic Design Laws
A cute set of laws for graphic designers.
This is What Happens When Your Dad is a Graphic Designer
Look to see what this baby’s dad does to her pictures. Cute.
Worst Company URLs
Want a laugh? Look at these web site URLs that spell things a bit different than what the owner was hoping.
Logo Design Humour
Redesigned Logos 2.0
Redesigned Logos in Web 2.0 Format
Listen to the song made for logo designers.
Hmmm…some of these logos are um…just look for yourself.
Flickr Photos Tagged with yay2dot0logoparody
Well known logos redesigned for web 2.0 for fun.
Logos designed for terrorists
Web 2.0 sites are all the rage and if you’re lucky enough to be bought out by Google or Yahoo there are millions of dollars to be made, but how do you fake it as a Web 2.0 site? Well, all Web 2.0 sites have one thing in common … they look the part.
Like fake google logos?
KFC’s Logo First to be Seen From Space
KFC Created a logo to be seen from space. Not that funny but still cool.
Gasp, this is the worst and most shocking logo ever.
Here are some funny rejected holiday logos.
Logo design gone wrong.
Really seems like it is a joke, but this logo is for real.
Corporation’s New Logo Changes Everything
A fake news story by The Onion.
Font humour
Ugly fonts, cutesy fonts, unreadable fonts, bad fonts . . . they have terrorized us for far too long, infiltrating our homes via e-mail, IM, and low-rent ValPak ads. Here, LMNOP presents the seven worst fonts–and the people who use them.
During a late night online conversation with another black, white, and orange website fan, it was decided that certain fonts should be retired. They’ve had a good run, but some things must come to an end. Whether, by overuse, obscurity, or just plain ugliness, here are some that just don’t make the cut.
Extra-Slanty Italics Introduced For Extremely Important Words
A fake news story by The Onion
DT&G Typography: Ask Yourself How it Will Read
Choose font and kerning well.
Helvetica Bold Oblique Sweeps Fontys
A fake parody news story by The Onion.
A List of Design and Fonts Jokes
Another list of design jokes and fonts jokes
A parody of the song, ‘Baby Got Back’
Alpha-Bits Now Available In Serif Font
A fake parody news story by The Onion.
Another fake news story by The Onion
These are cheesy jokes, but enjoy anyway.
Even cheesier fonts joke than the one above it.
You Know You Are a Fontaholic When…
Much of the following has been ‘floating around’ the USENET comp.fonts list for a couple of years.
Your Monkey Called - White and Sajak on Fonts
Not really so funny, but cute.
Adobe Photoshop Jokes & Humour
A fake news story by The Onion.
It all started with this, the hilarious Marquis de Sade picture, which was made in a flash of inspiration at work, one day. Within minutes of sending it to friends, jpegs started coming in thick and fast, as everyone began jumping on the comedy bandwagon. T
You Know You’re Addicted to Photoshop When
A list of ways to know that you are addicted to Photoshop
Photoshop Thread on Fark
A comic of what Leonardo Da Vinci Would have Been Doing if he had access to Photoshop
Acquired Paint Shop Pro Syndrome
The Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta today announced the identification of a new disease.
Jokes for freelance designers
Difference Between Freelance Designers & Onsite Designers
The difference between working in-house and freelance…
This smart entrepreneur thought of this great idea, putting cartoons on the back of business cards to be remembered. They are called ‘blog cards’ and some of the cartoons are funny…and if you ask me, a great idea for freelancers.
Printers Humour
A very funny document giving advice on printers that will just make things much worse.
Have any of you ever reacted this way?
Cute Xerox commercial
A picture that will make you smile.
Hope you enjoyed the list, there is many hours worth of humour here so don’t view it all at once 
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