Monday, March 10, 2008

You May Be a Hardcore Graphic Designer If

  • You consider meals to be interruptions.

  • You can't help but analyze the typography used for movie titles and the closing credits.

  • The next time you paint your room, you want to use Pantone 628.

  • You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you, because you were too busy studying a font on a billboard.

  • Most of the books on your wish list are design/color/font/image related.

  • You find yourself looking at color schemes all over the place.

  • If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a billionaire years ago.

  • When you look at album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later.)

  • You get peeved when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000 px in size.

  • You get distracted looking at the pattern on your husband's/wife's shirt instead of listening to what he/she has to say.

  • The fonts, Brush Script and Hobo make you ill.

  • You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded.

  • You learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.

  • You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.

  • You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.

  • You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.

  • You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up (because you had to).

  • You have organized your closet by color (like a swatch book).

  • You’ve totally butchered a great design concept, because the client thinks he/she knows best. (Everyone thinks they're a designer.)

  • The amount of words you’ve written with a Sharpie labeling burned discs, total more than the amount of words you have read in novels.

  • You clean your keyboard and mouse more often than you wash your car.

  • You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

  • You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.

  • You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.

Some of these were found here.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

man, I miss those days...I don't get to do much pure design work these days, unfortunately - the price you pay for being a code monkey!