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You Know You're A Designer When...
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That's an excellent one. Spending more time on visually-setting display type and running out endless laser prints, instead of tidying the kitchen or my desk, is the usual practice in the BV household. I don't wait until things get so bad that I can't move or work anymore... but the dishes sometimes stack up.
My project folders and files are ruthlessly organised and labelled. I can probably find any of my work files without using Spotlight... but I keep on mislaying my steel rules and assorted pens, let alone household objects.
Um...we are!
You've got to be your own #1 fan. No one else is going to be
agree with that totally
You've got to be your own #1 fan. No one else is going to be
Agree with them 2 amongst a lot of others on here... We all obviously think along the same line.
You know you're a designer when...
- You own a Mac
- You can't stand websites using Times New Roman as default font
- You keep on randomly talking French?
Heh. I a friend of mine cooked a meal for my wife and I when he was house-sitting for his parents. Whilst doing the washing up, I said to him:
"I'm sorry, I'm going to have to rearrange your parents' cutlery drawer."
"Why"
"Because they have the scissors in with the spoons."
"What?!"
"If you don't have a separate section for the scissors, then the scissors go with the knives. Function, you see? The cutting things go together."
"You're quite, quite mad."
"No, I'm not! Look -- the whisk goes with the forks. Grouped by function. I'm sorry. I can't help myself."
Do I need professional assistance?
Cheers
Jim
Hilarious... it's like something you read in a book or some joke...
Very funny
'Do I need professional assistance?'
Nope, I guess you have OCD which means you have a designers mind
Also;
'You know your a designer when...
you have one of those days where you get really annoyed because everything around you, your house, your street and your city is badly designed. You imagine yourself re-inventing everything...
...then I normally either go home and design something or get totally overwhelmed and feel like its a lost cause and go to sleep or get depressed.
Today it was go home and design something
When you compare the cabling arrangements in rail stations (uk) with cable arrangements in London Underground tube stations.
St Alban's station (N of London on the Thames Link line) has some extremely neat cabling, looks like the cabling in an Apple or IBM server room, but most underground stations have messy cabling, with wires hanging out everywhere. Like a MySpace server room.
Some of the underground lines have nice cabling when they pop out and run on the surface in the suburbs - e.g. the Central Line in West London - they have rainbow-coloured arches of cabling 2 meters high every couple of miles.
Umm. Are my geek pants showing? I suppose that's more of a network admin than a designer kind of thing.
St Alban's station (N of London on the Thames Link line) has some extremely neat cabling, looks like the cabling in an Apple or IBM server room, but most underground stations have messy cabling, with wires hanging out everywhere. Like a MySpace server room.
Some of the underground lines have nice cabling when they pop out and run on the surface in the suburbs - e.g. the Central Line in West London - they have rainbow-coloured arches of cabling 2 meters high every couple of miles.
Umm. Are my geek pants showing? I suppose that's more of a network admin than a designer kind of thing.
You think of how you could rearrange ports/parts on a computer to fit more ports/parts in it.
(I can fit 2 mini display ports, 4 usb, SD, express card, side load CD, ethernet, sound in/out, FW 400 and 800 and a security slot on a 15 inch MBP case (with no stacked ports/slots) just by using the PB Alu case as a template)
(I can fit 2 mini display ports, 4 usb, SD, express card, side load CD, ethernet, sound in/out, FW 400 and 800 and a security slot on a 15 inch MBP case (with no stacked ports/slots) just by using the PB Alu case as a template)
-When your friends see a flier and say,"You could design something so much better than that!"
-When you care what font you use on school assignments.
-When you care what font you use on school assignments.
You know you're a designer when you tell your friends that your buddy was a stripper and don't understand why the conversation stops dead.
Dale
Dale
Got a laugh out of that one!
And I can really relate to trying to apply "Undo" to real life.Here's mine:
Rush . . . wait . . . wait . . . wait . . . wait . . .
Rush . . . wait . . . wait . . . wait . . . wait . . .
Rush . . . wait . . . wait . . . wait . . . wait . . . RUSH!
(I probably spend too much of my wait time on MR
)
I'm shaking my head...far too many of these hit too close to home.
How about:
...you recommend restaurants/stores/companies because you did work on their printed materials. "Yeah, I do know of a great place that just opened. I typeset their entire menu, so I can already tell you what's good."
...you freak out employees of those businesses by mentioning your involvement. "I designed your business cards, I already know your direct number!"
...you know the real difference between "rich black" and "solid black" and it bothers you when you can tell someone is using them incorrectly.
...you can't remember where to find something in an application menu, even though you know the keystroke without a moment's hesitation.
...you can do pica/point into inch conversions in your head.
..you've had at least one printer/pre-press op curse your name out loud. "Oh sweet, merciful crap. It's another one of Mike's files."
How about:
...you recommend restaurants/stores/companies because you did work on their printed materials. "Yeah, I do know of a great place that just opened. I typeset their entire menu, so I can already tell you what's good."
...you freak out employees of those businesses by mentioning your involvement. "I designed your business cards, I already know your direct number!"
...you know the real difference between "rich black" and "solid black" and it bothers you when you can tell someone is using them incorrectly.
...you can't remember where to find something in an application menu, even though you know the keystroke without a moment's hesitation.
...you can do pica/point into inch conversions in your head.
..you've had at least one printer/pre-press op curse your name out loud. "Oh sweet, merciful crap. It's another one of Mike's files."
I know that feeling too well... I love the smell of card stock through a laser printer....
Ba-ding!!
Ba-ding!!
Ba-ding!!
Ba-ding!!
Four times now! I now refuse all website design requests from friends / family. I only sort out hosting, email etc. That's a bit simpler.
When your friend needs help on an ad poster, and sends you a Word doc with three lines of text and 10 different colors. And a stretched picture of Borat. And you get mad at them.
I know! The ones in my city are UNBEARABLE sometimes, I'm finding out a way to get a job redoing them and telling them they need a new logo without telling them how horrible they are.
