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I had discussed a wrap for a Scion, & to meet the clients budget, I agreed to let him get the design done cheaper elsewhere. I got beaten down further on my price, but agreed to that on 2 conditions...
Condition one was that we stayed away from the transitions of side-to-back & side-to-hood so the more difficult "wrapping" issues would be eliminated & we just put graphics on flat areas.
Condition two was that it had to look cool! I already had negotiated to have my signature appear on the job, so the cool factor was critical!
Yesterday I had to give the client some bad news. I saw this drawing 2 weeks ago & held off having that discussion hoping his other friends would tell him first. I finally broke down & told him it just wasn't worth doing... & fortunately he was easily convinced, becuase he really wasn't happy with it either.
I guess I downplayed my design abilities when I admitted I hadn't much experience designing "wraps"... but I told him yesterday it didn't take much specific wrap experience to improve on what he had so far. So I got the design job for an extra $1000.
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Yikes! Thank god he's willing to be reasonable.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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Doug you did your companies reputation a great service by turning down a job that would reflect poorly on you. Good on you for having the balls to say no to a client with no design taste.
You would be surprised at how many jobs I get just by saying no and then showing them why.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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I just got my $1600 dep. I'll bring my designs here for feedback when I have something to show. I knew I could count on you guys to help me put one last nail in the coffin if the client had any last reservations on paying for a real design... but I didn't need to show him this thread after all (I really had to restrain myself from terms like horrorshow & fugly... but now I can speak with unrestrained disgust about the fugly horrorshow his other "designer" submitted)
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So, let's see the 1K design, then.... Don't keep us waiting!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6454 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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"Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasies. But most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be." - Rush Posts: 1192 | From: Washington, NJ | Registered: Feb 1999
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Jill, like could you ask your nephew what the name of that font is and where we can get it? Seriously, did you see that the layout will fit perfect on a business card. Is that like really, really cool or what. Like did he have to go to school or something to learn that? Like that is really b****ing, man. Yo!
-------------------- Bob Nugent Hotrodsonline.com Gainesville, GA 30506 hotrod@hotrodsonline.com Posts: 46 | From: Gainesville, Georgia | Registered: Mar 2003
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Scion's are fun! but you're right about it being a pain to have the images wrap onto the roof and hood. We had a little of both on this one with the roof, front and rear.
-------------------- Bruce Evans Crown Graphics Chino, CA graphics@westcoach.net Posts: 913 | From: Chino, CA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Mike... you are the class clown in all honesty, even if the other "designer" made more then me.. I have a goal far more valuable then getting paid on this job. In 4 months of running my large format printer, I've kept it pretty busy, shown many existing clients some cool new capabilities & drawn a few new clients in for work unavailable elsewhere on Maui... but what I haven't yet done (with inkjet output)is a vehicle wrap. I'm looking forward to getting one done that I can be proud of, & point to (as well as print my logo on)
My feelings about this job will not have to be shameful now, but instead can be (hopefully) somewhat boastful.
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