The fatal error of a graphic designer

#79625Post 1 of 502010-01-25

a misspelled word....:oops:

I may be looking for a new job soon, FUCK!

#1327784Post 2 of 502010-01-25

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boobs instead of boots?

#1327797Post 3 of 502010-01-25

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[url]http://www.facebook.com/2012lisasimpson[/url]

could be worse

#1327810Post 4 of 502010-01-25

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:lol:

that logo is horrible btw. i think that is almost universally agreed upon too.

clint, what did you spell incorrectly?

#1327828Post 5 of 502010-01-25

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I misspelled you're (your're) on some t-shirts for a trade show here in New Orleans. I'd love to say it's not completely my fault, but I don't think the owner of our company will see it that way. I printed the graphic, showed it to everyone in our office (including the owner) for proofing, and it went unnoticed. $1000 tshirt order we can't use, and the trade show is today. Fuck, we've had the tshirts in our possession for weeks.

I came in and replaced an entire marketing agency they had been using for years. I handle the organization, design, and traffic for multiple projects for each of 11 institutes throughout the southeast US. I just got bogged down with work and missed this crucial mistake. I'm so upset with myself right now...

#1327830Post 6 of 502010-01-25

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and yes that logo is God awful, and to think some agency got paid tens of thousands of dollars for that

#1327854Post 7 of 502010-01-25

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It is never the job of the designer to proofread any materials before sent for production, so don't feel bad, even in small companies there should be someone else in charge of proofreading, you know after hours of looking at the same stuff is hard to notice stuff like this.

#1327864Post 8 of 502010-01-25

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If I were you're boss I'd be screwing right now, probably a little bit because you spelt it wrong, but more so that I read it and proofed it.

I write a bit of music now and then, after looping a bar for so long you do lose track of where its going. This sort of echoes what the labmonkey has said above.

He can't fire you for that.

#1327866Post 9 of 502010-01-25

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[QUOTE=clintlove;828184]you're (your're)[/QUOTE]

Say it is satire on the abuse of the apostrophe.

Hope it works out for you :what

#1327867Post 10 of 502010-01-25

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[QUOTE=demonAfro;828224]Say it is satire on the abuse of the apostrophe.

Hope it works out for you :what[/QUOTE]

yeah i thought that - just roll your eyes and tell em they don't get it..

seriously, don't beat yourself up. Sounds like you're doing a better job than they are.

Hope you don't get the boot over it, that would be shite management.

#1327869Post 11 of 502010-01-25

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that logo for the olympics is awful, lisa simpson giving head is a bit of a reach though

as far as the spelling error, I'd feel like shit too, but as others have said, when more than one set of eyes are on it, someone should have picked up on it... the timing really blows though, sorry mate

#1327893Post 12 of 502010-01-26

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Oh no! :( I really hope everything works out for you Clint. Like others have said multiple people proofed it for you, so hopefully they don't take their anger out solely on you. You are human, you make mistakes....hopefully they yell a bit, suck it up, and move on hug

#1327897Post 13 of 502010-01-26

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God I feel for you !! :(

#1328043Post 14 of 502010-01-26

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u doin alright injun?

#1328047Post 15 of 502010-01-26

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Talked to the owner today, but she didn't say anything about it. I'm sure it's coming.... waiting on the marketing manager to get to work. I share an office with her. We'll see.... I'm certainly not going to bring it up ;)

#1328052Post 16 of 502010-01-26

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It's not your fault alone to bear. Seems other's eyes weren't working that day either. Good luck, I'm sure it will all be just fine.

#1328053Post 17 of 502010-01-26

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[QUOTE=labmonkey;828212]It is never the job of the designer to proofread any materials before sent for production, so don't feel bad, even in small companies there should be someone else in charge of proofreading, you know after hours of looking at the same stuff is hard to notice stuff like this.[/QUOTE]

This is not an attack to the OP but just a general comment. Regardless of who's fault it was, someone (or a group) is responsible and there comes accountability and consequences. Saying "it's not my job" esp coming from the person that created the material is trying to shun accountability and blaming someone else. In an IT world, that would be like a programmer not doing any sort of debugging and blaming a bug on QA entirely when a bug surfaces later. The right thing to do is to own up to it. Sorry, really, I just get so sick of all the finger pointing that's done in my company b/c everyone's all about CYA and no one takes responsibility for their actions.

OP, don't take it personally and I feel bad for you man. I hope things will get sorted out for you without too much pain.

#1328075Post 18 of 502010-01-26

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I'm not the type of person to point fingers and I have completely owned up to the error. I created it. I've expressed this my employer today.

By the way, I still have a job. They weren't quite as upset about it as I expected. It's an expensive mistake I've learned from, and will take extra steps with the screenprinter from here on out to make sure something like this will never happen again. I can breathe now.....

#1328078Post 19 of 502010-01-26

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[QUOTE=clintlove;828485]I'm not the type of person to point fingers and I have completely owned up to the error. I created it. I've expressed this my employer today.

By the way, I still have a job. They weren't quite as upset about it as I expected. It's an expensive mistake I've learned from, and will take extra steps with the screenprinter from here on out to make sure something like this will never happen again. I can breathe now.....[/QUOTE]

What blows me is that the printing shop didn't catch it after the first $10 Tee was printed but the heroes went ahead and dumped $1K worth of Tees out.

sheeesh

#1328081Post 20 of 502010-01-26

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[QUOTE=djkix;828458]This is not an attack to the OP but just a general comment. Regardless of who's fault it was, someone (or a group) is responsible and there comes accountability and consequences. Saying "it's not my job" esp coming from the person that created the material is trying to shun accountability and blaming someone else. In an IT world, that would be like a programmer not doing any sort of debugging and blaming a bug on QA entirely when a bug surfaces later. The right thing to do is to own up to it. Sorry, really, I just get so sick of all the finger pointing that's done in my company b/c everyone's all about CYA and no one takes responsibility for their actions.

OP, don't take it personally and I feel bad for you man. I hope things will get sorted out for you without too much pain.[/QUOTE]

I disagree with this. If there are 10 chefs in the kitchen, all are to blame. Just cause someone created it and therein lies the mistake doesn't forgive the fact that passed through 6 sets of eyes. If that was the case, the OP should've been the one passing the design STRAIGHT to the printers, which WASN'T the case.

Believe me bro, you wouldn't be posting as calmly as you do if really experienced being unfairly shafted for something that you were effin told to do, to begin with.

#1328087Post 21 of 502010-01-26

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They weren't so mad I guess cause they nearly sold out of the other shirts I created for Valentines at the show.

Uppers and downers, uppers and downers......

#1328089Post 22 of 502010-01-26

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[QUOTE=Kamal;828490]What blows me is that the printing shop didn't catch it after the first $10 Tee was printed but the heroes went ahead and dumped $1K worth of Tees out.

sheeesh[/QUOTE]

I called the lady who sent the design to the screenprinter and she was embarrassed neither she nor the screenprinter noticed. It was so plane as day once I saw it.

On a good note, we may be able to salvage the shirts by printing over the flawed design. We'll see.

#1328115Post 23 of 502010-01-26

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i spy with my little eye...

[QUOTE=clintlove;828485]I'm not the type of person to point fingers and I have completely owned up to the error. I created it. I've expressed this ( SOMETHING IS MISSING HERE ) my employer today.

By the way, I still have a job. They weren't quite as upset about it as I expected. It's an expensive mistake I've learned from, and will take extra steps with the screenprinter from here on out to make sure something like this will never happen again. I can breathe now.....[/QUOTE]

and

called the lady who sent the design to the screenprinter and she was embarrassed neither she nor the screenprinter noticed. It was so plane ( PLAIN ) as day once I saw it.

damn dude, get hooked on phonix or take an english class or something!:p

or pay me to proof read your work and ms posts!

#1328124Post 24 of 502010-01-26

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^:roflmao: you beat me to the reply

#1328128Post 25 of 502010-01-26

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Jesus you guys are killing me.

#1328140Post 26 of 502010-01-26

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let's make a t-shirt out of that

#1328142Post 27 of 502010-01-26

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FINALLY, kamal made a decision on a t-shirt!!!!

quick, let's get the order in before he starts thinking about it!:p

#1328173Post 28 of 502010-01-26

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[QUOTE=res0nat0r;828538]^:roflmao: you beat me to the reply[/QUOTE] Me too :lol: We are laughing with relief that you still have your job !! :)

#1328187Post 29 of 502010-01-27

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^ your're job

#1328189Post 30 of 502010-01-27

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Could be worse. Stumbled upon some DJ's website earlier. How embarrassing must this be?

[IMG]http://www.further.org.uk/images/uhohs.jpg[/IMG]

#1328191Post 31 of 502010-01-27

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What a trip, I just flew in to New Orleans today for a conference and I'm doing graphic design/technical support for the company.

I'll be sure to spell check everything!! :)

#1328196Post 32 of 502010-01-27

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Ha, yes use spellcheck ;)

If you have a free moment, send me a PM, we should meet up for a drink while [I]your're[/I] down here.

#1328201Post 33 of 502010-01-27

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I want one of those t-shirts! Vintage Clint.

#1328220Post 34 of 502010-01-27

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i've had errors in my work too. I make magazines on a daily base, some in two languages and once i placed a french ad in the dutch version. It was proofread by the person in charge (account manager), sent to the printer and printed. The person in charge did visit the printer to give an OK on the first printed examples (looking if the colors we're like the colorproofs). After 3 hours (+/- 55000 sheets of paper printed) he noticed the french ad. Meaning 55000 sheets for the bin, make new plates, reprint = 1000$ for the new plates + 1000$ wait times penalty for the press that was stopped and new paper. Creditnota was around 5000$. Boss was really angry, yelled at me and the account manager for about 15 mins and didn't speak to us for a week. I was nervous but mistakes happen. Nothing else happened.

Since then i never ever sent anything to the printer without a signature + OK stamp of the client/person in charge. Hah !

#1328240Post 35 of 502010-01-27

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[QUOTE=tiddles;828606]^ your're job[/QUOTE] ?????

#1328243Post 36 of 502010-01-27

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You're a designer man, nobody expects you to spell check. Visual people see copy as lines and blocks.

#1328258Post 37 of 502010-01-27

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[QUOTE=demonAfro;828224]Say it is satire on the abuse of the apostrophe.

Hope it works out for you :what[/QUOTE]

This right here :p

Dude, Clint, no joke, send me on of those shirts -- I will rock one just cos' I'm a stylishly random nut like that :)

yeah fuck it, this error too shall pass, and your career will still be awesome, don't stress on it. Keep on truckin' :RockOn:

#1328270Post 38 of 502010-01-27

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[QUOTE=khilla;828645]Boss was really angry, yelled at me and the account manager for about 15 mins and didn't speak to us for a week.[/QUOTE]

you're lucky, around my parts, it lasts years and is no more than a hiccup away from putting you through a vomit inducing deepthroat.

#1328277Post 39 of 502010-01-27

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[QUOTE=tiddles;828606]^ your're job[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DIDI;828671]?????[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DIDI;828258]^^You are definitely not paying attention :lol:[/QUOTE]

:unsure:

#1328282Post 40 of 502010-01-27

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[QUOTE=Simon Preston;828608]Could be worse. Stumbled upon some DJ's website earlier. How embarrassing must this be?

[IMG]http://www.further.org.uk/images/uhohs.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

lmao, whoops

Spellcheck... thers's an app for that

Music madethis place,we just kept itgoing...

The fatal error of a graphic designer