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What in your view is a bad client?
You tell design students not to work for a bad client.
A bad client is a client that doesn't understand the role of the designer.
While design students will come away quoting Mr. Vignelli's stiff-necked pronouncements ("From a bad client you get a worse client"), the film is all the more poignant because since its completion Mrs. Vignelli, 78, has grown increasingly ill with aphasia and is no longer able to work.
The client practically owns you, and that having a bad client can destroy a business.
And it makes me a bad client because I'm always watching the clock.
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