You know how sometimes you go to a concert to see a big artist, and you check out the merchandise they have for sale and it fucking sucks? It's simple and unimaginative or just bad? And you're like, "How can a performer this big have such crappy merchandise?" Let me tell you how. Because they waited until a week before the tour started to give their merchandising company a single logo and a low-res JPG with which to design and produce an entire tour line. Since there is no time to spend doing anything awesome, the designs created are fast and simple, and probably boring. That's why. And then on top of it all, after the manager has had days to review the submissions and has actually approved most of them, on the day that you have to send all the art out in order to have everything produced in time for the first show, the manager frantically calls flipping out because "You used the wrong logo!" (as if they haven't been staring at it for five days) the logo in question being the one they sent you to use. So now you get to redesign everything with the correct logo, which they now send you, and resubmit new visuals and re-upload the print files after they have approved them (for the 2nd time). No doubt when the tour starts and there is no merchandise available for the first show or two, the same manager will call screaming at you for dropping the ball and not getting the stuff done in time. Just sayin' ... jawn: Out Of Time - Burn
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