Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.

My pal Craig Swis­tun just sent over this exchange regard­ing spec work.

This is the begin­ning of a hys­ter­i­cal but also sad exchange. I’ve come across my share of enthu­si­as­tic folks with bad ideas and no clue why you don’t want to work on them instead of your pay­ing client work informed by good ideas.

Dear Simon,

Dis­re­gard­ing the fact that you have still not paid me for work I com­pleted ear­lier this year despite sev­eral asser­tions that you would do so, I would be delighted to spend my free time cre­at­ing logos and pie charts for you based on fur­ther vague promises of future pos­si­ble pay­ment. Please find attached pie chart as requested and let me know of any changes required.

Regards, David.

Do read the entire back and forth. It’s worthwhile.

Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.

It par­tic­u­larly res­onated with me because the site reminded me of a book called “Let­ters from a nut” I read while in the hos­pi­tal recov­er­ing from an appen­dec­tomy. This was a prob­lem, because the book defined ‘side-splitting’ humour for me. I believe it was writ­ten by Jerry Sein­feld under a pseudonym.

That was slightly dif­fer­ent than the let­ters here because the foil in those let­ters is inane cor­po­rate pol­icy and the drones who ped­dle it. Here, we’re largely talk­ing about busi­ness own­ers with a sim­ple lack of consideration.

Clas­sic.