Politics – which, among the other walls to communication, seems to be the most impenetrable because it leaves absolutely no room for negotiation.

For employed graphic designers, office politics is rampant in a working environment where personality and hierarchy matter in the reception, acceptance and evaluation of individual performance.
 

For freelance graphic designers, they have worked with clients who needed to impose their superiority and felt intimidated by the designer’s inputs. Further to this kind of situation, one designer recalled an experience designing a product for a client who was a graphic designer himself; it was not easy as envisioned because the client insisted on a particular work flow, therefore reducing the role of a designer as a mere apparatus.