[puma10]

What have been your funniest thoughts when viewing customer artwork? This comical thread is inspired by the following situation:

A customer sent me a "logo" that was 15 different colored pixels and asked me how I thought it would look on a t-shirt.

My immediate thought was "It will look like a pixelated dog took a rasterized crap"

If you have ever had similar situations please vent. All customer artwork agony, thoughts and comedy welcome!

Ready, set, vent.

 

[treefox2118]

I consider sending customers free coffee grounds laced with adderal.

Daily.

To all of them.

 

[Viper Graphics]

Sorry but I have had NO funny thoughts when it comes to customer supplied artwork, I usually have this really, really dark cloud form over my head as it becomes apparent I am going to go another round (maybe 2 or 3) with another clueless customer over how the art needs work then after a couple pain killers as the migraine kicks in I attempt to explain why I cannot spend a couple hours redrawing their precious artwork for free......and usually it's the smaller customers wanting just one to a couple dozen shirts....No...nothing funny here. wish it was.....( Look forward to hearing some if they are out there though!

 

[GHEENEE1]

I have to repeat " forgive them, for they know not what they do "

 

[beanie357]

We like hand drawn on lined notebook paper. We used to try this stuff, then charged, now charge correctly. Cut most of it out. Yes, it was generally the crap orders that they even wanted to bring their twelve shirts in for.

One guy we really worked to chase away sent us a nasty gram 2 years later as he got left on our email list when we sent out our moving notice.

Now he is a graphic designer for 15 years, so he knows the biz. Flag one.
He wants to bring his own 12 shirts in. Flag 2
He wants dtg as his image is 16 mil colors, but wants us to twiddle to appear best on the various shirt colors. For free. Flag3
Since our dtg was "broken" we should have contracted his job out. Flag 4 We are a contract shop and do not do under 24 anything. He felt his job was contract work as he supplied a 72 dpi image.

Kinda was good for a laugh.

 

[DivaB]

Not an order; but last month while camping we had a guy show up with a T-shirt he had designed and made himself that showed a cannon shooting at a tent........the tent looked ok, the cannon looked more like (not sure what I can say) but a part of the male anatomy. To top things off, it also glowed in the dark, and we all found it totally hilarious around the camp fire. He found no humor in it at all, he was hoping to be able to make more and sell them. The rest of us had a blast and came up with joke after joke regarding his glowing, supposed to be "semi erect cannon".

It was the exaggerated cartoonish artwork that made it not look like a cannon....then the glowing outline, well, you can just imagine

 

[joeshaul]

I hate when I ask someone for the photo they want on a shirt, and they reach into their wallet, start unfolding various pieces of paper, until they reach the one in the absolute center and then they ask me if I can do anything about the wrinkles and the coffee stains.

I really wish I could just go to my rag box of mistreated/misprinted shirts and pull out the most grease laden ripped up one and say "will this shirt fit?"

 

[Danny vital]

Here's one. I get a call from a lady asking if we can do a full color picture in some memorial shirts. I said sure, we can do vinyl transfers. They want to meet me to give me the photo to scan ect... So we meet and, I kid you not, she gave me a picture of a dead baby in a coffin.
Of course I did it, and of course I apologized to Stahls for the creepy *** picture that I sent them to make the transfers.

 

[clsgraphics2100]

I've done several dead baby memorial shirts from pictures. Creaps me out for days afterwords.

 

[PositiveDave]

A lurid picture with Tapestry of Putrid Genitalia - with three spelling mistakes!

 

[Smalzstein]

One customers wanted a male erected genitalia printed on a shirt starting from a bottom seam and pointing upwards. Looked funny when he tucked the shirt in the pants

 

[Skinbus]

Forgive them for they truly have no clue!

 

[DivaB]

I wonder what it is about the dead baby memorial pictures on T-shirts? I've seen them, and don't understand. If I'd lost a child and/or baby (which I can not fathom the terrible pain), I would want to memorialize them alive and in happier times.

....was just thinking out loud.

 

[clsgraphics2100]

I don't understand it either. I figure I'm just doing my part to help them thru this trying time. It puts a smile on my face when they come in to pick up the shirts and they have tears in their eyes from happiness with the results.

 

[TYGERON]

Funniest thought when seeing customer art?

(Looking at ink pen line drawing on lined notebook paper) "Why would they want an Ostritch
on their family reunion shirts?"

It was supposed to be a Phoenix rising from flames.

But wait...

Thinking it was intended to just convey the idea, I redrew the layout with a pretty cool Phoenix with flame wings, fire spewing from mouth.

Customer: "That's not what I wanted."
Me: "Well you wanted a Phoenix right?"
Customer: I wanted it exactly like what I gave you."
Me: "Exactly like that?"
Customer: "Yes."

So I traced the provided "artwork", made it 2 colors, added text and did the job. 300 shirts and sweats.

I had a family member ask me if the bird was a Dodo. And I was also told it was the first year they didn't sell all the shirts. That was 1998.

Epilogue:

Held the door for a wonderful senior woman at the post office a couple weeks ago. She was wearing one of those shirts.

I guess they really do rise from the flames.

 

[TYGERON]

More recently:

(Looking at e-mailed graphic)

"OK. That's a farting pig"

Yes, it was a caricatured pig standing on hind legs, smiling with the requisite 'poot puff' emanating from it's backside.

 

[DivaB]

More recently:

(Looking at e-mailed graphic)

"OK. That's a farting pig"

Yes, it was a caricatured pig standing on hind legs, smiling with the requisite 'poot puff' emanating from it's backside.

ROFL, now that's funny! (where is the laughing smilie?) I'd order that for my husband! ........my bad

 

[noah22]

Really a dead baby memorial pictures on T-shirts? I can't do this, I can't take of seeing dead people..

 

[clsgraphics2100]

I just don't sit there staring at the pic. Just think of it as just another job and you're helping people thru some tough times. I know this sounds callous but it's good money.