Drawing the line on picking clients
Stefan Sagmeister, a designer I admire for both work and ideals, on picking clients:
“I recently took a year off from my clients. I used the time to make up my mind about all the fields I did not want to get into (but had previously imagined I would). (…) It made me think a lot about clients. I decided I would rather have an educated client than one I have to educate. Tibor’s line was that he would only take on clients smarter than him (but remember, a client does not have to be design literate to be smart).”
Where do you draw the line between taking a job and not taking a job based on your perception of the client? One of the things about the new possibilities on the web (the fact that so much is so easy), is that it generates a lot of people with “ideas for an amazing project” (half of those being myspace clones). Sadly companies can’t work with everyone on everything, so, where is your line? What if the sort of client that makes you jump fences, and what clients make you say no?
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