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Logo/Graphic Designer Needed
I am looking for a graphic designer to help me create a specific logo for a new company.

Allright - not too horrifying. Though I do wonder about specific. Are you expecting that someone might make you a logo intended for someone else?

This logo is crucial to the project

Aren’t they all?

and will be fine tuned until perfect.

Oh, there’s where the bad smell was coming from. And two months later, when you’ve dithered about colors, font faces, and that curly bit on the end that just doesn’t feel right to you; after you’ve gotten the input of everyone involved with your project (only to ignore all suggestions); after you have finally signed off on the logo that is ever so perfect… your printer will have to tell you that he can’t use it on press.

Good luck getting the poor sap who signed on for this back after the check clears. They’ll probably be burning you in effigy.

Ideally I would like to meet in person to discuss the direction we are going in.

I’m going out the door. And which we are you referring to?

We will pay a agreed price for the project.

Oh, the royal we. How quaint. I hope you can afford the difficult client surcharge, your majesty.

Dear passive aggressive customer -

“I’m not good with computers” is not an excuse to forget how to read or think for yourself. We’re not asking you to re-partition your hard drive - you just have to fill in basic information on a form and press two gods-be-dammed buttons. This has NOTHING to do with being “good with computers”. If you can fill out the basic contact form in your doctor’s office, you should be able to do this.

I’m sorry that the big scary internet makes you forget how to function as an adult, but I do not have access to your computer, nor am I getting paid to allay your fears about technology. You’re going to have to pull up your big girl pants and push the button your own damm self.

with sincere stabby rage,
Me

PS - You almost made me snap my favorite pen.

PPS - Yes, our UI isn’t perfect. I’d love it if we could put more time and energy into making it better, but my IT guy is overworked as it is and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about usability on a good day, and the owner of the company doesn’t have the faintest clue what we’re talking about and isn’t going to put money towards interface development when I’m the only person in the company saying that there’s a problem.