In pursuit of perfection

Everyone knows that clients are an evil bunch, and frankly we'd be better off without them. You create a piece of work that answers the brief, looks amazing and is bound to win prizes by the bucketful, but in the presentation the client looks bored and unimpressed. You seethe silently while they blithely suggest changing the colour, the font and perhaps even the approach.

But are clients our fiercest critics? According to the pencil pushers (and I mean that in a good way) at D&AD, you are your own worst enemy. In a press release for the new D&AD Global Awards 2006 they disclosed that a survey of this year's awards jury revealed that just over 73 per cent of the judges have never been completely happy with a piece of their own work - never mind someone else's.

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