Poster Atrocities

[DCM]

Not a poster... but a girl bought one of my tshirts at the Manchester Poster Expo and then went about 20 yeards away while she cut the sleeves and neck off with scissors, put it on over her existing clothes and went on her merry way.

It's just stuff, as long as people enjoy it, it's all good.

I was about to mention that one..... Kids?!

[sicknimich]

One time my band played this garage rock fest and I was able to get some test press copies of our new single in time for the gig. I screened all the covers and hand cut ane glues all the sleeves. I was proud of myself. Then we played and some insane guy in his 60's chatting me up outside after the gig and was like yeah I bought your record and proceeds to pull it out of his jacket with all the corners of the cover folded around the record so he could fit it in his pocket. At first I was bummed but then I was like he paid for it so he can do what he likes. The moral of the story never let a 60 year old guy that mangles your handmade single give you a HJ.

[john_e_warner]

...and this turned you into the next most famous new poster designer how?


fuck fancygoat, if they sell the shit, what do you care?

If someone wants to buy a poster from me and then piss on it, case it in plastic, abuse it some more, then throw it in the garbage - hey, as long as I get my money, fill your boots.

One guy bought a whole set of GP calendars, folded them into paper airplanes, lit them on fire, and threw them over the walls at flatstock. he said his name was Warner...

Heh Mr. Waner to you mazn

[fantasygoat]

In the long run it doesn't matter, they bought it and it's theirs to destroy. Just bums me out to see something I worked hard on get wrecked.

[The Fresh Prints]

i made some posters for a local gig that was going on. one of the guitarist from one of the opening bands came up and complimented me on how much he dug the poster. he went on to say that he was so into it, that he had it laminated...
my only thought was, that's just perfect.

[The Fresh Prints]

wait, wait, wait, no, this one time...

[Carlos Artest]

someone took this poster
http://www.gigposters.com/poster/897...test_Hits.html

then cut off the bottom 3rd of it (including my name) and stretched it in photoshop to be taller (2/3 --> 1) and postered it all over town. I mean, it wasn't that bad, but they did cut off my name and change the layout of the design w/o asking. If they had asked I would have just adjusted it and added my name some place else.

[Andymac]

In the long run it doesn't matter, they bought it and it's theirs to destroy. Just bums me out to see something I worked hard on get wrecked.

I had an artist client, with bad anger management issues, (among other demons) we let him take a pile of prints home to sign. big mistake.

He comes back a few days later, says we're 25 or so short, because he had to reject a bunch of the prints.

so we had to rerun the whole thing - it was 7-8 colors - to make up another 25 good.

We said lets see the flawed prints.

He hands us a stack of about 75 pieces (always did overs, these were pricey art prints) a few had flaws that could have been touched up - most were big circles drawn around dust/paper specs you could lift off with your fingertip.

To make it worse, he was doing this in a stack, so every time he circled a 'flaw', it indented on the next piece, which he would reject too, because the paper was flawed.

We did the redo, didn't argue.


Fucker didn't know it, but he paid a 50% DA charge on every job we did after that. Never again left the studio without signing them all there, or accepting the run as is if he was in a BFR.

[Gregory]

my roommate works at kinkos and laminated one of my animal collective posters for some girl.

[julia green]

right now because I am starting out I do digital designs and usually the agreement is that I get paid to do the design but I don't always do the printing myself. I emailed this band the poster design but never heard anything back about it. Then later on I saw the posters all around town on reallly shitty slick plasticy paper and it looked like it had been hand cut so the edges were all jacked. Oh well, though.


I had this one band asking me to design a shirt for them last minute (they needed the design the next day) and they were just going through my art I have online and trying to pick something out that I could put on a shirt without even asking. They just like emailed me and kept begging to use a character I had made for another poster for another band. The image was not even appropriate for the band or the shirt.
I hated those douche bags.