You never cease to amaze and inspire !
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My most basic rule on design. If you say “Don’t care”, you are stuck with what I produce. LOL. Obviously, I’m not making my living doing this.
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Yeah, but I’m married to this one…he gets special privileges. 
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True, but only as much as you afford him. 
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I’m out of likes already.
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I’d invoice him! bahahah!!!
I actually did that once to Captain Awesome! 
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I handle all of the accounts anyway and do the accounting…I’d just have to pay myself.
(He’s the charmer, I’m the worker bee.)
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I love your designs Jules, you should be proud no matter what your husband thinks! What I don’t like is the logo on the back, we get a lot of salespeople at work dropping off “gifts” that are no more than self promotional junk that finds it’s way into the trash as soon as possible. If I received an item that was personalized to me I wouldn’t need a logo to remember who gave it to me. To each their own I guess.
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Those are outstanding!
…and you “client conference” is priceless!
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Yeah, I’d put it on the underside where it’s not obnoxious but it’s easily findable if they do manage to forget somehow.
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Unfortunately, it’s one of those things that you pretty much have to do as a sales agency. I’ll make it light enough to the point of being subliminal in the final version…that was just to show object placement. 
I frequently have to work up photos of fishing trips and whatnot for clients, to remind them of the good times that they had at such-and-such an event, and one of the requirements from our end is that the logo has to be in there. I’ve figured out how to do it so that not a single client has ever even noticed it.
I agree they’re obtrusive. But they cost money to create, and serve a function to keep the business alive. I try to be delicate about it.
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welcome to every day of my life at work.
not much worse than the “i’ll know it when i see it” clients.
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Except “I’ll know when I see it” relatives.
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I know right? We’re the little minions.
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they’re still clients, just pickier and with longer-lasting grudges. 
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Yeah but the quote goes higher with every round of mock ups for a customer. I’m still waiting for my brother to pay me for some design work I did for him in the 1990s.
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lol…
i don’t do paying work for relatives. i’ll either do it for free but limit my involvement/time or i’ll claim to be too busy w/regular paying work. it always ends in one or both sides being sad when there’s money involved. and none of them would want to pay my real rates anyway.
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Good thing I’m the “OK my rate is $120/hour and the clock started 45 minutes ago” kinda designer.
They make up their minds real quick.
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This is a VERY good motto!
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this doesn’t work when you’re in-house. and overhead.
sigh
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