...when you TOTALLY hate when a client says: "Doesn't this looks just TOO pretty?!!!" And you say: Well... he's paying me anyway. 
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You Know You're A Designer When...
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you watch cartoons and get pissed off when there arent enough inbetweens to make the motions fluid.
... when you laugh out loud when reading this thread.
And when you've realised you've done more than 50% on the thread...
This is funny! You're a good story teller. I like the line "Viva... for a funeral home... you guys don't think that's funny?"
Every time you see a FedEx truck drive by you see the arrow before the name.
When you find that 90% of the artwork on your walls has typography on it.
You've given up trying to convince your grandparents/distant relatives that you do more than draw stuff...
You hate that when you tell people you are a graphic designer the first question they ask is "Oh so you make websites?"
You won't buy something from the grocery store if the design is bad.
You will pay more for something if the design is better, because you feel that, in some way, you are supporting that designer.
Your clothes and shoes are organized by color, style, amount of use, and season (in that order)
You have rubbed off on your (non-designer) significant other and when you go out, they point to a sign with helvetica and feel so proud that they spotted it
You are the first person your engineer friend calls when he needs to reduce a document by 30 pages without rewriting anything.
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When you find that 90% of the artwork on your walls has typography on it.
You've given up trying to convince your grandparents/distant relatives that you do more than draw stuff...
You hate that when you tell people you are a graphic designer the first question they ask is "Oh so you make websites?"
You won't buy something from the grocery store if the design is bad.
You will pay more for something if the design is better, because you feel that, in some way, you are supporting that designer.
Your clothes and shoes are organized by color, style, amount of use, and season (in that order)
You have rubbed off on your (non-designer) significant other and when you go out, they point to a sign with helvetica and feel so proud that they spotted it
You are the first person your engineer friend calls when he needs to reduce a document by 30 pages without rewriting anything.
love this post
Every time you see a FedEx truck drive by you see the arrow before the name.
When you find that 90% of the artwork on your walls has typography on it.
You've given up trying to convince your grandparents/distant relatives that you do more than draw stuff...
You hate that when you tell people you are a graphic designer the first question they ask is "Oh so you make websites?"
You won't buy something from the grocery store if the design is bad.
You will pay more for something if the design is better, because you feel that, in some way, you are supporting that designer.
Your clothes and shoes are organized by color, style, amount of use, and season (in that order)
You have rubbed off on your (non-designer) significant other and when you go out, they point to a sign with helvetica and feel so proud that they spotted it
You are the first person your engineer friend calls when he needs to reduce a document by 30 pages without rewriting anything.
love this post
You sure made me laugh today! The bold part is SO true!
Typographers quotes
you know the correct keystrokes to make typographers quotes
you notice when packaging or documents use them incorrectly
you are exceedingly annoyed at the whole concept of Smart Quotes and how it allows people to do bad things to apostrophes (mainly things like 09 instead of 09. Ugh, it galls me to even write it.)
And just like Quinton Heckrot, after being a long-time lurker, I thought that this is the thread I wanted to jump into as a first-time poster! Seriously, we need help.
you know the correct keystrokes to make typographers quotes
you notice when packaging or documents use them incorrectly
you are exceedingly annoyed at the whole concept of Smart Quotes and how it allows people to do bad things to apostrophes (mainly things like 09 instead of 09. Ugh, it galls me to even write it.)
And just like Quinton Heckrot, after being a long-time lurker, I thought that this is the thread I wanted to jump into as a first-time poster! Seriously, we need help.
In "I Love You Man" there is a goof with the Mac in the background, at first facing the camera and then in its next shot is closed without anybody using it.
Similarly, in "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" in the beginning the is clearly an iPod Classic 6 gen, but later on in the movie, it is only a 5 gen.
...1 pixel out = blood pressure increase
If you have Snow Leopard, open up the Airport menu and look at the checkmark next to the active network.
Even if it has bad design, but tastes good, I'll buy it.
Sometimes, but mostly not.
Nope.
- When peers laugh at you for having a IPS panel monitor and they're the ones that get criticized in class for color...