Designer: I can’t find a photo to represent personal trainers. The only stock images we have are too creepy. Look kind of like an after-school special.
Writer: Like a molesting-kids after-school special? Or the kind about bulimia?
Designer: A cross between those and the ones about steroids.
Creative director: Oh. That sounds OK. Use whatever you guys have.
16340 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona
Art director to photographer: So, how big is your rack?
(rest of table bursts out laughing)
Art director: Okay! I guess we're all 13 here!
Photographer: You gotta admit, that was good.
Art director: Yeah, it was good.
(at the end of photo shoot meeting)
Art director: Don't forget to bring your rack on Friday!
Van Nuys, California
Designer: I just don’t trust anything that doesn’t come out of a cow!
Newspaper
Melbourne
Australia
Designer: We can’t afford naked people. All of those photos are rights managed. So tomorrow I’m bringing in my digital camera.
2001 Lind Avenue SW
Renton, Washington
Designer: It wouldn’t have to be like kissing your mom or anything. It could be like chopping your finger off.
860 Broadway
New York, New York
Overheard by: Confabulation Nation
Art director: Don’t you have to be educated to do your job?
IT guy: Nope.
11 E 26th Street
New York, New York
Overheard by: Jeremy
Female designer: If you show up, you can watch me use your hard drive.
IT guy: Ummm…
44 Canal Center Plaza
Alexandria, Virginia
Photographer: Well, you don't want to get blood all over your car…
Newspaper
Delaware
Office Manager: …who knows, maybe Crystal is a very nice person.
Design Assistant: But I hate people named after rocks.
228 Gerrard Street East
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia
Overheard by: J.B.
Copywriter (after watching a 1980s video on YouTube): YouTube is my fountain of youth.
Graphic designer: Young boys are mine.
Sex Toy Factory
Las Vegas, Nevada
Overheard by: Looks like Diva
