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25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer
(In no particular order)
1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your girlfriend’s blouse than listen to what she has to say. (Sorry Ladies)
4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
6. You consider meals interruptions.
7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
12. When you heard that Adobe was acuiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.
16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.
(In no particular order)
1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your girlfriend’s blouse than listen to what she has to say. (Sorry Ladies)
4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
6. You consider meals interruptions.
7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
12. When you heard that Adobe was acuiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.
16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.
I saw an amusing post in the "C&T Forum>C&T Tech Talk". Now let's take a look to separate truth from fiction.
1. A billboard shouldn't distract you while you're driving-regardless of how well it's done. I've never seen a billboard that was worth examining.
2. I've never had a problem with Photoshop brushes (downloaded or self made).
3. This is a fallacy. A paisley pattern on a girl's blouse would be something a fashion designer would get into, not a graphic designer. if you happen to be staring at her chest, that's an issue you have to resolve with her confused
4. Fallacy. I don't type by "hunting and pecking" on the keyboard. 55 wpm isn't that hard to achieve.
5. Never had a software nightmare. I always back up my work on a CD-RW disc and on a ZIP disk.
6. Meals are not interruptions when it's a safe distance from your work area.
7. Fallacy. The only time I've ever used the word "final" was in final exams at school.
8. That's what keyboard covers are for.
9. I don't have a hard time explaining my works to people. If you're working with clients, being a people person is a plus. Giving up means you have a hard time with communication.
10. Correction I can see spot and process colors with ease. Don't get me started with hexadecimal values...
11. Laundry is not that hard, and neither is the desktop.
12. That didn't surprise me one bit. Mergers are so common these days. An orgasm would be looking at a paper that has die cuts formed by a laser *fap fap fap*... *smokes virtual cigarette*.
13. Fallacy. If that's all you see in albums, then you've missed a ton of other effects, various fonts, fake duotones, and real duotones. I'm afraid to know what albums this person was talking about.
14. Fallacy. Any real designer would either get royalty-free picture stock, purchase stock, or hire someone take the pictures for them.
15. Paying for a font ? What's so hard about that. If you can spend some cash, do it. If you can't, don't worry about it. Effective layouts don't have to utilize expensive fonts from Veer or Emigre.
16. Another fallacy. You as the designer should be able to let the client know that you're the smartest person for the job. You can't expect to have a piece of cardboard to be a business card right ? Exactly.
If your client knows best, then why the heck did they hire you ?
17. I read my fair share of novels and non-fiction books. Besides, I have a large hard drive (external and internal) to handle my needs. How many burned CD's do I carry ? Seven for songs and three for my files.
18. A layered file should be told to the client ? Why ? If you're doing page layout in Illustrator, then I should every right to smack you. Otherwise, if it's a separated CMYK file that needs to be sent to a print shop, that's really not their concern. The only thing that they [the client] needs to know is the initial roughs, progress, and when it's done.
19. I keep concert tickets as a souveiner...
20. According to Apple, the OSX wheel is called the "beachball".
21. Not really. Most resources I know mentally. A night on the town is always a plus.
22. Fallacy, You should never overbid a project for a client regardless of their disposition. A bad client may have had a bad day prior to your meeting. Think about that for a second.
23. I've never critiqued a menu design while I'm in a restaurant. I have a life outside of my field.
24. My font collection isn't that large at all. A good designer doesn't have to depend on special fonts to pull something off. The only exceptions would depend on the client's needs. Short tempers are a stereotypical statement. I'm actually pretty patient.
25. Everyone would be rich if we got paid for mouse clicks.
