43 signs that you are cool designer
- You nearly crashed a car in front of you identifying unknown font on the billboard.
- You feel bad if just downloaded free Photoshop brush has size less than 1000 px.
- You are looking at weird picture on your girlfriend/boyfriend T-shirt instead of listening to her/him.
- You are using hotkeys extremely fast but can’t touch-type a paragraph of text.
- You had design nightmares when you worked too hard.
- You believe that food is an interruption in a design routine.
- You don’t use ‘final’ as the file name anymore.
- You clean your keyboard more often than wash your car.
- You have lost hope to explain your projects to amateurs.
- You see RGB and CMYK colors as Neo see the Matrix.
- You are thinking about burning Adobe offices for slow development of their products.
- You see Photoshop brushes looking at CD cover first and later the designer’s idea.
- You paint over watermarks in Photoshop for layout purposes sometimes.
- You bought font some time ago.
- You were disappointed in a good project after client made changes.
- You write so much on a burned CD as though it is a novel.
- You said to a client that you never agreed to give him final work with right layers names.
- You kept used ticket to scan it.
- You have a nickname for a mouse cursor.
- You raise the design price to avoid bad client.
- You criticize menu design at restaurant.
- You have impressive font’s collection.
- You would become millionaire if you earned 1 cent per click.
- You hate amateurs’ questions.
- You changed IM identity to avoid fans.
- You made mega T-shirt to laugh on all people wearing ‘DG’, ‘Mango’ and ‘Cool girl’.
- You save yourself of boredom in public transport thinking off something creative.
- You know CMYK values to forge documents.
- You know by heart ’99 franks’ by Frederic Beigbeder;
- You can’t remember when you read solid design book last time.
- You believe that premium notebook and Wacom tablet are attributes of successful designer.
- Job ad for a graphic designer position without salary amount you find most impudent text in the Web.
- Chef allows you smoke and drink in order to make right creative work.
- You are not annoyed by amateurs who believe in their creativity and try to force you use their ideas.
- Instead of fantasy and science fiction you are constantly looking through catalogues of best logos, calendars and visit cards.
- You are ready that the worst version of your design is approved immediately.
- You hate any mediators in relationship with a person who has right of your work approval.
- Marketer is your enemy number one and you don’t like any designers who becameу managers, marketers, production specialists.
- You start to make design after looking through 100 cliparts though the third one was already most suitable.
- You don’t like when someone stays near you, looks at your work and after some time says ‘Wow!’.
- You have strange feeling every time you hear that designer and artist don’t mix.
- If you are girl you evaluate in glossy magazines lipstick color as CMYK (HEX) values.
- Your most used phrases at work:
- Ok, I’ll do that in this way.
- I’ll send it from home.
- There are three versions but I like the first one.
- Let’s go! Try to make it yourself!
- If I would have another day this will be a masterpiece.
- No, we used this clipart photo only 25 times.
- I guess it suits the brand.
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