The 8 types of bad creative critics
I was forwarded this hilarious illustration today that highlights the eight types of bad creative critics. This is such an exciting industry to be apart of – however, one of the obvious downsides is that since everyone uses the internet, everyone feels justified in being a critic. If you’ve been working in this industry long enough – you come across more than a handful of these types – you’re probably laughing outline and assigning client names to each box as we speak!
© Tom Fishburne | skydeckcartoons.com
Thank you to Tom Fishburne for making my day. I give a big “hang in there” to those of you working for that over achieving boss or client who fits into four or more of those critic types – I’ve been there!
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Categories: design, humor, rant
- January 24th, 2007
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That is an awesome cartoon. I think I’ve met every single one of those people.
HA HA. I completely agree! The Wet Blanket is probably my favorite.
Thanks, this is great. He forgot one though (I come across this one a lot).
I think it would be appropriate to call him/her “The Cecil B. DeMille.” The caption would say, “Can you find a shot of a knight with a golden glow, with a silver key in one hand, and a sword with rubies in the other? Maybe Photoshop in a couple of maidens in the background, and a horse…and a tent, yeah, a tent.”
Maria, yeah I definitely know the type.
Maria G.’s comment reminded me of a Reader’s Digest thing I read. I’m paraphrasing, so bear with me.
A customer had brought a photograph into some kind of photo manipulation place. The photograph was a picture of a man kneeling behind a cow, but the man couldn’t be seen from the waist up.
The customer had one simple request: “This is the only picture of my great grandfather. Please remove the cow from the picture so I can see what he looked like.”
Ha Ha - that’s great. I’ve met em all :)