- 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.
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1 comment:
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!
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