Drafter on phone: Um, ya, give me a second and I can put it up on the screen… (sighs) Oh, there it is… Almost up there… That's better.
Central Point, Oregon
Drafter on phone: Um, ya, give me a second and I can put it up on the screen… (sighs) Oh, there it is… Almost up there… That's better.
Central Point, Oregon
Account director: Are you slammed?
Designer: Yeah, I’m juggling David’s* package along with everything else.
111 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Hear No Evil
Supporting actor: This is the first play I've been in where I didn't play a tree!
Orlando, Florida
Designer: Once again I get dicked on the vertical.
Editor, backing away: I don't want to know anything…about anything.
Memphis, Tennessee
Boss: I need you to bust out that postcard ASAP! It’s priority number six!
Designer: Um, does it have to be done now or do five other things have to be done first?
Boss: Six is the new one!
Designer: I didn’t get that memo.
15335 Morrison Street
Sherman Oaks, California
Designer: So, David*, what are you doing tonight?
Deaf box office manager: I’m-on-eh-leh.
Designer: Oh, you’re going to get laid?
(deaf box office manager nods)
Designer: Well, that’s nice.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Editor: I'm gonna do this guy…
Photographer: You're gonna do this guy? That's nasty, and do I really have to take pictures?!
Editor: Why are all of our photographers perverted?
Boone, North Carolina
Designer: If you want to save money on groceries, go to the ghetto and go to their Safeway. Their prices are cheaper. Or go to their discount grocery store. It’s even cheaper, but most of the signs are in Spanish or some other language I don’t speak. And you can find some of the weirdest food!
2001 Lind Avenue SW
Renton, Washington
Designer to photo researcher: Try to find a nice child abuse shot.
10801 N. MoPac Expressway
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: always listening
Client: You need to fix this design; the text is way too big.
Web designer: What is the text size in your browser set to?
Client: It’s on large so I can read it better.
1335 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, California
