Jared Christensen
Design, Music, & Sundries

When you spill a glass of water, you instinctively reach for Command+Z.

Myriad? Sexy? Really?? I’m a Bodoni boy myself. [And yes, I think Bodoni is sexy.]

... when you wish a fate worse than death on the person that touches your display

... When you ask a site dev to adjust a margin by one more pixel.

...the sight of brush script gives you hives

Hehe… good stuff! Keep it coming! :)

...you won’t buy a product if the packaging has the Comic Sans typeface on it!

you refer to people as font types… ie: someone you think is boring you refer to as Arial

...when you easily sacrifice a window seat at the office to avoid the sun glare.

The font I notice everywhere is Agfa Rotis Semisans. ;)

...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.

. . . if some of the items in your folio are not the final client approvals – and you’re showing like it should of been.

...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.

Here you go Jared,
... when your computer recieves more TLC than your; girlfriend, wife, car, home, dishes, carpet, bills, personal attire.

...when you find yourself discussing the subtleties between 5 shades of (insert color here) for over an hour.

“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

You go on vacation and insist on taking pictures of a trash can because you think the typography is awesome and inspiring.

...when you start coloring in your two-year-old’s sesame street coloring book because you just thought of a great color scheme for Bert’s striped shirt. I think I may have a problem…

This stuff is priceless. Seriously. :)

...everything you see turns into CSS in your mind…

...when you are corned at a parent-teacher conference because your six-year-old refuses to follow the Zaner-Bloser Handwriting method because he told his teacher he prefers serif fonts for body copy.

True story.

She was very happy to see him go . . .

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.

Deep Festering Salmon Guts is the new black. It’s gonna take over the world.

...your closet is full of Threadless t-shirts

LOL. I thoroughly enjoyed this!! haha

...if you know who Imogen Heap (or Frou Frou) is. :)

...you collect album art.

...your girlfriend brings colourfull flyers home wich she found in a record store, just to please you (true story).