Wednesday, November 26, 2008

another list from a facebook group :D

You know you're a graphic designer when...

  1. You have bags under your eyes so big you'd have to check them in at Heathrow Airport
  2. You watch the superbowl just for the commercials 
  3. You can spot bad typography from 100 yds away
  4. You are pro-facebook because 95% of the myspace accounts burn your retinas
  5. You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes
  6. You are completely immune to subliminal advertising
  7. You look upon a well-designed project with either: sympathy OR extreme jealousy 
  8. Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse
  9. You tell stories of exacto-knife inflicted wounds with grizzled sort of pride
  10. You practically take caffeine intravenously 
  11. You have an appreciation for everything unique
  12. You've been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit. You find yourself overcome by Deathlust.
  13. "You find your pulse increase at the sight of a lovely ligature, glasses steam up when an unusually elegant arm, leg, or tail comes in view, and a well-kerned paragraph is apt to make you break into a sweat with excitement."
  14. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you buy a CD or DVD for the artwork, even if you have no idea what the actual music or film is like. (even worse, you don't actually watch or listen to it, just stare at it for hours and hug it in adoration)
  15. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you look at the clock and see it's about midnight and think 'I'll go to bed now'... and you actually go to bed about 2-3am
  16. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you need someone else to point out that you're sitting in a room in front of the computer with all the lights off, and haven't noticed
  17. ...when you know what "kerning" is and you really, really like it.
  18. ... when you wear two [ke] [rn] pins on your bag, and only you know what the mean. To others its probably a band of sorts.."
  19. Forget the boy-wonder and the man of steel; your heroes have names like 'Tibor Kalman', 'Stefan Sagmeister', 'Paul Rand', and 'Paula Scher'.
  20. You don't wear black to look cool, you wear it to hide the gauche.
  21. You have a thing for chairs. You don't know why.
  22. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
  23. You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under. 
  24. You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
  25. Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
  26. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
  27. You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
  28. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn't come.
  29. You're up 'til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
  30. The hottest dream you ever had was "Trace contour... Find Edges... Pinch... Extrude... Smudge Stick... Motion Blur.... Sprayed Strokes..."
  31. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
  32. Looking at a menu make you go "hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic" rather than "mmmm, lunch!"
  33. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
  34. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
  35. Kerning and leading on your shopping list actually matters to you, and you don't see a problem with that.
  36. You know that "bleeding" doesn't hurt.
  37. When you know the difference between fuchsia, magenta, and maroon.
  38. You Know You're a Graphic Designer When deciding on the right crop doesn't involve a choice between corn or wheat.
  39. You've considered naming your children things like 'Kern', 'Pica', 'Bézier', and 'Serif'.
  40. You can understand everything on this list.

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