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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2026
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My mom used to do faux decorative wall painting for rich clients. They would pick a sample and she would paint the walls to match but she found that they often complained after the work was done, even when it was exactly what they wanted.
She ended up getting a spray bottle with water that had a bit of food coloring and called it a “toning layer” that she would spray on the wall. It didn’t change anything but it made the clients think their feedback mattered, she said it almost always worked and they’d be elated afterwards.
In the same idea, artist will give the clients multiple samples with one being terrible to help them select the better options.
Except sometimes they selected it and thus hilarious examples of modern art and corporate identity were brought to light
Or worse, they select it, but want some changes and end up blowing the budget, timeline, and good taste out of the water all at once.
That is how the actual talented people at Apple treated Steve Jobs. He was a fucking moron.
I have a feeling that's how his oncologist treated him, too. "Well, you could just eat a lot of fruit instead."
Okay, thank you for that one.
It's not often that a post on the internet makes me laugh out loud like that.
This doesn’t always work. Sometimes clients pick the terrible option. T_T
That's why you always hide a duck in it
What does that mean?
The scenario will play out in one of two ways:
Hide-a-Duck sounds like a lawn ornament you put your spare key in.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/#5-a-duck
Or a sexy-time game.