Here is a compilation of some of Murphy’s Graphic Design Laws which designers at Cheese agree with.
- If you have two versions of a file, you will send the wrong one to the printer.
- Speed. Quality. Affordability. Pick two.
- The index entry you leave out will be the first one the client looks under.
- Optical Character Recognition is good comedy.
- If three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen.
- If two designs are shown, a third will be requested. If provided, then one of the first two will be chosen.
- Blueline proofs reveal previously invisible errors.
- You will misspell the client’s name.
- Your best idea is already copyrighted.
- Creative inspiration flows in inverse proportion to the distance from the studio.
- The amount of work to be completed increases exponentially as the deadline approaches.
- When you complete your work well ahead of the deadline, the client is held up in traffic and cancels the meeting.
- No matter how detailed the tech support FAQ is, nobody has ever heard of your problem
- The number of colors in a client's design will equal the number of colors in the original bid specs, plus two.
- The client’s projector isn’t efficient enough to project your most prided piece of work.
- The client's disk won't run on your equipment.
- If you purchase new equipment to read your client's disk, it will be the last disk of that type you will ever receive.
- A single picture tells more than a thousand words. Any technical picture has more than a thousand bugs.
- A single picture has more bugs than that can be described with a thousand words.
- ‘My brilliant idea’ is a myth.
