25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Designer

shane-c · 10-25-2007, 04:22 PM

(Taken from http://www.cg-files.com/25-Reasons-y...rdcore-cg.html)

Quote:

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

garyzero · 10-25-2007, 04:30 PM

How about when you are out in public you rattle off the names of font faces. Thats all I do, but the Adobe Macromedia buiyout excited me too.

Cello · 10-25-2007, 04:52 PM

great stuff shane-c! I get at least 20/25

wes_design · 10-25-2007, 05:06 PM

You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

^oh that is so me... man this is another reason why I can't keep meaningful relationships...

or go out with people

McGuffin · 10-25-2007, 05:13 PM

Going to class from 8-11AM and then working until 2AM at night. No lunch/dinner breaks. I'm hardcore.

graylensman · 10-25-2007, 05:23 PM

! I definitely scored a 95% on this. Favorite items: Numbers 7, 9, 12, 14, 23.

EZEkiel · 10-26-2007, 01:54 AM

You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
HAHA that freaking rocks!!!!

ø · 10-26-2007, 05:18 AM

Ah I love those

How about:
When you're out in the sun, you look for a drop shaddow to sit under

You know Lorem Ipsum by heart..
..your kid knows lorem ipsum by heart

Christov · 10-26-2007, 07:06 AM

Haha, brilliant

Phenex · 10-26-2007, 07:18 AM

Other than 4 and 20, I'm guilty of all. I admit.

And that thing about "critique the menu design in a restaurant" is so true. My girlfriend/friends always splash water on my head because of that, but I just can't resist!

hybrid101 · 10-26-2007, 09:21 AM

lol saw this ages ago. and amen @ 25

BoonDock · 10-26-2007, 09:21 AM

I guess I'm not hardcore - about 5 of them don't apply to me ...

DanontheMoon · 10-26-2007, 09:25 AM

It's funny cuz it's true.

Gundark · 10-26-2007, 10:28 AM

These are pretty funny...

Some of them even apply to developers too! (5, 6, 7, 10, 21, 22, 25).

My coworker and I were out eating lunch one time and we started discussing the RGB value of the color of his burrito. Then we decided we were working too much.

And I think most/all developers have had coding nightmares.

Templarian · 10-26-2007, 10:34 AM

I've almost done number 1 before.

off topic:
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So i have work at 8 on FRI and I slept in having a dream about getting ready for work and right when i was gonna enter the door to work I woke up and was like dang gotta do it all over again (I'm suppose to be in at 9 so being late doesn't matter just can't leave early).