You Might Be A Designer If...
- You walk around the Washington DC on your vacation and are as equally fascinated by the pervasive use of Clarendon as you are by the giant sample of brain coral on display at the Natural History Museum.
- You veto eating at a restaurant for purely aesthetic reasons (e.g. “it looks like Grandma’s basement threw up in there.”, “I’m not eating cheese sticks next to an overturned canoe, a velvet painting of Elvis and tackle box! I don’t care how ‘Americana’ it is!”, etc.).
- You’ve ever referred to Myriad Pro Semibold as sexy.
- You decide that the next time you paint your room, you want to use a lovely shade of #ff9933. Update: Whoops! Forgot to credit this one to the ghost of Abel, though the hex color he picked looked like dead salmon entrails.
- You still buy toys. And you have one sitting on your desk right now.
Am I missing anything?
Commentary
Rob Weychert » 750 days ago #
When you spill a glass of water, you instinctively reach for Command+Z.
... when you wish a fate worse than death on the person that touches your display
Jerry Nummi » 749 days ago #
...you won’t buy a product if the packaging has the Comic Sans typeface on it!
Jeff Kenny » 749 days ago #
...ummm…you actually try to figure out what PMS color your skin tone is. I’m somewhere between 4685U and 4675U, with a bunch of 4645U freckles.
Matthew Esparza » 749 days ago #
. . . if some of the items in your folio are not the final client approvals – and you’re showing like it should of been.
Jared Christensen » 748 days ago #
...if some of the items in your folio are not the final client approvals – and you’re showing like it should of been.
No, you’re thinking of Clueless Management Types. ;) Designers know better.
Matthew Esparza » 748 days ago #
Here you go Jared,
... when your computer recieves more TLC than your; girlfriend, wife, car, home, dishes, carpet, bills, personal attire.
David Hale » 747 days ago #
...when you find yourself discussing the subtleties between 5 shades of (insert color here) for over an hour.
Leopold Porkstacker » 745 days ago #
“You Might Be A Designer If…”
...you judge a printed advertisement based on leading, tracking, and kerning pairs (I do this), and then quickly come to the conclusion that some bonehead MS Office equipped wannabe designer used a crappy-ass Truetype font instead of a proper Postscript typeface.
-he who stacks pork
Darren Ansley » 745 days ago #
You go on vacation and insist on taking pictures of a trash can because you think the typography is awesome and inspiring.
You decide that the next time you paint your room, you want to use a lovely shade of #ff9933.
Even though I picked out some oogly shade of Deep Festering Salmon Guts, you should still give credit, where credit is due, sucka. =P
“You Might Be A Designer If…”
...you organize your fridge, as if it were a swatch library.
...you wish that moving items in your house were as easy as resizing its vector form.
Jared Christensen » 743 days ago #
Deep Festering Salmon Guts is the new black. It’s gonna take over the world.
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