Being Human | Being Designer

It sounds stupid at times being online late at nights and struggling with a silly laptop and few black colored keys, But it was a night which made me realize my abilities of being a designer, A stupid designer.
Well i came up with this list of signs that will describe that you could also be a stupid hardcore designer. A lot of these signs can overlap other professions too. From my experience, the following list contains mostly truths, mixed in with a little humor.

1. You get pissed when a free photoshop  brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
2. You’d rather study the grunge pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
3. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
4. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
5. You consider meals interruptions.
6. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
7. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
8. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
9. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
10. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
11. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
12. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge photoshop brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
13. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
14. You’ve actually paid for a font or an image.
15. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
16. 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.
17. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
18. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
19. You’ve nicknamed your clients and design faculties. (and not affectionately)
20. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
21. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
22. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
23. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
24. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.

You Will be Rocking in this career if you think --

1. If you think a JPEG is a large party vodka shot.
2. If you think websites are where lots of spiders hang out.
3. If you think Photoshop is a new form of vocational training.
4. If you think a complimentary color scheme is plaids and stripes.
5. If you think Clipart is something you cut out of the Sunday funnies.
6. If you think toner is rubbed on before going outside.
7. If you think software is your under garments after washing with fabric softener.
8. If you think typography is related to the hill behind your house.
9. If you think InDesign is a new wave rock band.
10. If you think a light bulb moment is when you open the refrigerator door.
11. If you think advertising is a new way to pick up chicks.
12. If you think TV Guide qualifies as a reference manual.
13. If you think copyright is a term from your Hooked on Phonics lessons.
14. If surfing the web includes the use of soap.
15. If you think Gestalt is a blessing in German for sneezing, you might be a design redneck.
16. If you think AA stands for something besides an Associates degree.

     
As graphic designers, sometimes we take ourselves a little too seriously. Take a moment, lighten up, and smile. You will find the world is a much nicer place when you take time to laugh at yourself once in a while.

Gud nite Folks !!