In our weekly installment of Clients from Hell, a hilarious collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers, we present “When they say one thing and mean another.” For previous posts, click here .

Client: I want you to come up with a catchy cover picture for a blog post. The image needs to be 600x800 large. Can you get this done by today?

Me: Sure, what kind of cover picture were you thinking of? Are there any specific images or text you want, or feelings that need to be conveyed?

Client: The topic is “Big Business Decision Making.” Maybe include the word “SEO” and… a man concentrating as an image?

I send three examples.

Client: I don’t like any of these. They don’t say anything about  real estate .

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