The Missing Cat Poster

oh, priceless... the full exchange had me in stitches... the dud was clearly being an ass, but damn... "i just want it to say LOST"...

I think the poster in your post is ingenious. It would make me look twice.

As funny as it may be, it's not fun to lose a cat.. especially a young one.

Me thinks David just made up the whole story and wants his 15 min. out of it. If he's so busy he doesn't have time to make the ONE poster then why does he have time to make that many, Looks like an a-hole to me, not neat!

Shywarrior /sigh/ you wish. David is not an a-hole, he's a smart arse. You have spent way to much time studying the post.
The posters are brilliant!

Pretty much sums up Graphic Designers.

They don't care what you want, they're "designers" dammit and they know what's best.

After all, 3 years of night school, and that mail order art school from the back of the match book wasn't for nothing ya know.

//you can just hear the color wheel panties getting in a bunch already//

After all that, Shannon should try paying with a picture of a spider for David Thorne's services.

Funny as hell, end of story.

She was an idiot; he was a pig.

@Vonskippy - Oi! We do at least have some informed opinions about what works and doesn't work. Damn right we know best. I don't lecture my electician on the best way to re-wire my house.

BTW, can you actually buy colour wheel panties. Want!

Very funny though. Reminds me of some of my clients. Even if it's not true.

Love David's website, you really need to see past what seems to be his dick-ish behavior and see what kind of emails and requests he gets. It's enough to do anybody in who has half a brain.
His exchange with a guy who wants to send his kid on a religious field trip had me particularly in stitches!

I thought it was pretty hilarious.
I specially liked the Lost poster :P

I'm right there with David Thorne when he's responding to people trying to get him to do free design work, and I thought it was funny when he tried to pay his bill with a picture of a spider.

But in this one, he's just a dick. She's not a business trying to get free work, she's a coworker asking for help; and he chose to be a dick. He could have said no, he's too busy, but he chose to deliberately waste her time when she could have sought help elsewhere.

Yeah, I know she could have made her flyer herself in Word in five minutes. That doesn't make David Thorne any less of a dick for wasting her time and mocking her distress.

I'll admit it was funny, but that doesn't excuse it for being cruel as well. I've visited his site before and understand his frustration with some of the people he deals with but this was just blatant douchery. He had time to make a bunch of bad flyers but not one simple missing flyer for the poor woman? I hope this comes back on him in his time of need, maybe that will make him think twice the next time he decides to jerk someone around for no reason.

P.S. I fail to see, yet again, how this is neat. It's not, it's just mean. Don't promote cruelty.

lighten up everyone

this is funny

"He had time to make a bunch of bad flyers but not one simple missing flyer for the poor woman?"

Considering it would make perfect material for a second book, yeah. No wasted time there at all.

What Chay said.

congratulations David, in the time it would have taken you to make ten simple effective posters that would have helped your co-worker find her cat, you instead wrote several smarmy smug emails, and wasted your time making a bunch of jackass posters you knew she couldn't use, and alerted much of the internet to what a steaming cock you are. well played, jerkoff.

Y'all have to remember he is a writer. There is no hard evidence that Shannon's cat was ever missing in real life.

This is very obviously fake.

I could not stop laughing when I read this, especially when he told the story of the cat he liked, and talked about remote control dogs. He's pretty witty, but she should have realized that she could have done it herself for the time that she spent corresponding with him... The end result was really simple, a five-year-old could do it, but the one's preceding it were indeed neat and hilarious, especially "no reward".

What a gigantic asshole.

I'm totally stealing this movie poster idea for missing pets and/or garage sales.

in the time it took the woman to write the original E-mail she could have made the poster herself... you don't need a graphic designer to make a missing cat poster. paper, marker, picture, and photo copier.

yes, I'm a graphic designer.