Thursday, April 28, 2011

Murphy's Law in Design



This was a title given by En.Zul by talking about Murphy's Law in Design. Actually I haven't heard this law before. So I went to google search for it. I found that the law consists of many rules that taught us how to done and become a graphic designer.



These are the Murphy's Law i found in internet:
Murphy's graphic design laws
1. Your fonts will default.
2. If you have two versions of a photo, you will send the wrong one to the printer.
3. Promises made by the salesperson never make it to the pressroom.
4. The salesperson will promise anything.
5. If the text consists of two words, one will be misspelled.
6. Speed. Quality. Affordability. Pick two.
7. If the run is wrong, it's never the press operator's fault.
8. Spell checkers don't.
9. Grammar checkers don't, either.
10. Global search-and-replaces aren't.
11. The index entry you leave out will be the first one the client looks under.
12. Optical Character Recognition is good comedy.
13. If three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen.
14. If two designs are shown, a third will be requested. If provided, then one of 15. the first two will be chosen.
16. Blueline proofs reveal previously invisible errors.
17. The best designs never survive contact with the client.
18. You will misspell the name of the client's spouse.
19. Your best idea is already copyrighted.
20. Creative inspiration flows in inverse proportion to the distance from the studio.
21. Doctors, astronauts, and plumbers need training to do their jobs, but anyone with
a copy of Publisher is a graphic designer.
22. No matter how detailed the tech support FAQ is, nobody has ever heard of your
problem.
23. The number of colors in a client's design will equal the number of colors in the
original bid specs, plus two.
24. The client's disk won't run on your equipment
25. If you purchase new equipment to read your client's disk, it will be the last
disk of that type you will ever receive.
26. Your client won't "get it."
27. All the laws above were sent by Jay
28. A single picture tells more than a thousand words. Any technical picture has more
than thousand bugs.
29. A single picture has more bugs than be described with thousand words
30. The last two laws were sent by Janne Siren

Sources: http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-Graphic_Design.htm

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