graphic design, freelancing, illustration, advertising, web design

Love
The frame white space provides

Hate
Filling up the white space

Love
Getting paid on time

Hate
Not getting paid at all

LOVE
When you come up with a great design and you know it’s great.

HATE
When the client “loves” it too but has a few (read: many) tweaks.

Love:
a simple compliment

Hate:
“..no, that text must be centred.”

Love:
“we’ll leave the design to you; we’ll send the copy”

Hate:
“Please find attached, the animated gifs we wish you to use in the home page header”

Love
Seeing satisfied customers

Hate
People who take up two parking spots

Yeah THATS RIGHT! I work from home and she is gonna get it! hah

Great post! I’ve got a couple more…

Love
Finding that you’ve done something almost identical in the past, and that it’ll save you hours of work

Hate
Discovering that you accidentally saved the version with the merged layers

Love
Staying in bed when you’ve got no client work

Hate
Getting up and finding that you’ve missed an instant message and three grand worth of work has been given to someone else

Thanks for your comments Some great additions there, I can relate to most of them

I will not answer, I thing the above do cover me but I want to change one of your ‘hate’ to ‘love’ so the score will lean towards love…

Hate
Knowing most of your work is thrown away - brochures, packaging, direct mail, magazine ads

What about being happy that those that commisioned the work actually choosed you ?

Hi RomeoAngel

Your right I should have included that one. Good point

Love: this blog

Hate: asking 3 months in advance for a client to provide something & then receiving it one day before the go live date.

Love: Free thinking time.

Hate: How long each project takes.

Hi Steve
Thanks
“Hate: asking 3 months in advance for a client to provide something & then receiving it one day before the go live date.”
I think we have all been there!

Hi Church of Integrity
Thanks for leaving a comment. Time for creative thinking, is one of the best things about the job. I just wish there was more of it.

Love

Getting hands on and making a really good mess with paints, inks and so on.

Hate

The fact that 99% of cases don’t warrant it!

Love - When I believed I produce a quality campaign that actually made the client laughs all the way to the bank. I mean, ultimately, commercial art usually got to fulfill one of these objectives: increase brand awareness or increase sales.

Hate: I did a great job and they asked for discount after the bill is presented . That’s when I would forget how to be lady-like.

I really love this post - if you have any more entries please put them up I’d love o read them!

LOVE: Finding blogs such as these which make you nod and say “yes, I experience all of these things daily!”

HATE: Marketing Managers who are shockingly awful at their jobs and don’t have a creative bone in their body.

Thanks for your comment Nic, glad you enjoy reading. Hope there are no Marketing Managers reading

love: to have the time to do my work and do it well as it should be and be happy of the result feeling satisfied

hate: when the clients doesnt know what he wants and redo the work over and over until your are lost and sick of it