Client: ”So I’m thinking that for the navigation we should have a guy with a dog head, kind of like one of those dog butlers, come dancing out and start tossing letters around. These letters can then form the site navigation buttons!”
Me: ”To sell real estate?”
some designers won’t recognise their muse when it arrives…
“And there you have it: a cuddly duck based on a fearsome Nazi, gently taunting the technological refuseniks who wouldn’t stump up for the next generation in colour TV.”
…from an article on how, in the ’50s, the US TV companies used Disney content as the colourful carrot to encourage take-up of colour TV’s. While today TV companies face the same consumer reluctance to complete the digital switch.
I tweeted this yesterday, but worth repeating. This is honestly one of the funniest things I have read in a long time, and I can relate to it from a designer’s point of view.
Hilarious. It’s a website I visit occasionally so I also recommend keeping it bookmarked. And while you’re there have a read of Party in Apartment 3 and Overdue Account
I was meeting with a prospective client to work on a children’s picture book about a wounded cat who finds a happy home. The author asked me to produce a sample drawing, which she described as follows:
“There must be maggots in the cat’s cut. I want them to be detailed and life like. The maggots should be the focal point of the drawing”.
I love games like Machinarium. So creative, visually rich & quirky and ultimately frustrating. You can play the demo before you part with a very reasonable amount of cash.
A lack of faith in your product, possible blind panic or confusion driven by how to interpret numbers and a definite short-sightedness towards anything but Mammon are all too common in an online business, but this is a wonderfully bad example of ‘how not to’.
