I love the smell of card stock through a laser printer....
I'm tempted to put this on my facebook...
Also, on the superiority note.
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You Know You're A Designer When...
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I'm tempted to put this on my facebook...
Also, on the superiority note.
You can't look at anything - any book, magazine, sign, logo - without assessing it's flaws, good parts and what you would have done with it if it was your project!
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Started reading this post and had to add to it!
Started reading this post and had to add to it!
- you can see everyone else's typos and spelling errors, but never on anything youve worked on... till its gone to print.
- the first thing you do in any new document or application is to change the default font preferences- anything but Times.
- you understand the difference in RGB and CMYK.
- you can never have enough gadgets, and it pains you to admit you could live without most of them.
- theres one job that haunts you and is always accompanied by the phrase never again, never again".
So true! That's why I require someone else to proofread everything before it goes to the printer.
...you look around you, at advertising in bus stops, mupis, outdoors, magazines, cafes (coffe shop? don't know really how you call it there lol), and you can see how it was made, what program was it used, in what way was it made. You single try to decipher step by step, how exactly that thing was made. When you are with someone and comment: " damn!! that's so wrong!! they would do that in "this way", not that way" and that someone goes..." wtf are u talking about!?"
Is when you are walking the street reading a magazine, seeing t.v...whatever, and you're not seeing it with common mortal eyes...but with designer eyes, it's like you have taken the red pill ( lolol, i know! a rough example ), you the world in a different perspective. You walk around thinking a million thoughts, when you're passing by a million ads, logos, text editing, sites...whatever.
That's when you'll know you're a designer
As for me, i know i'm on of them...can't get my brain to have peace, always running faster than 7500 rpm like a hard drive disk
Is when you are walking the street reading a magazine, seeing t.v...whatever, and you're not seeing it with common mortal eyes...but with designer eyes, it's like you have taken the red pill ( lolol, i know! a rough example ), you the world in a different perspective. You walk around thinking a million thoughts, when you're passing by a million ads, logos, text editing, sites...whatever.
That's when you'll know you're a designer
As for me, i know i'm on of them...can't get my brain to have peace, always running faster than 7500 rpm like a hard drive disk
PS: sorry if i have a bad english. lol
no better way to exercise it than in this forum
hope you can get my idea
no better way to exercise it than in this forum
hope you can get my idea
I truly cannot understand why people dislike Times New Roman. The 'e' might be somewhat ugly, I grant you, but it's a perfectly fine font otherwise. That many people use it or that it is a default font in Word is hardly a reason to consider it a bad font. It's so lovely Roman.
On the topic of this thread: you know you're a designer when you earn enough by designing to make a living. Which could lead to slightly snarky comments addressed to family members on the colour scheme of their Happy-Birthday e-card. Oh, and you write with a calligraphic pen also, always, all the time, consistently, ceaselessly.
On the topic of this thread: you know you're a designer when you earn enough by designing to make a living. Which could lead to slightly snarky comments addressed to family members on the colour scheme of their Happy-Birthday e-card. Oh, and you write with a calligraphic pen also, always, all the time, consistently, ceaselessly.
Are you serious? When I'm doing a school project, and someone sends me some text or info in Word, and I see Times New Roman as the font:
1. I lose any interest in the project just by looking at that info.
2. Before I even dare to read the thing, I change everything, and by that I mean EVERYTHING, to Helvetica or Neutraface.
3. And obviously, send the document back with the new font, even if it's the same as before, just for the sake of making that person notice it.
Seeing as I Love You Man is one of my favorite movies of all time, the VERY FIRST TIME I watched the movie I noticed that, although I would hardly consider myself a designer, I always notice continuity errors and other such errors in movies, it drives my friends and family nuts.
Really? Wow. Most designers recoil from Times New Roman as it is a default typeface. I feel similarly about Myriad, the default in Illustrator. But Times New Roman is a great face designed for readability in newspapers. I really can't wrap my head around someone thinking that one of the most successful typefaces of all time (right there with Helvetica and Garamond) is somehow second to Neutraface, which I would never ever ever want to read an entire page of.
You Know You're a Designer When...
You answer ads for a freelance Graphic Artist and they want to pay $10/hr or less for a person with talent, skill, experience, personally purchased computer equipment, personally purchased expensive software that would make their project look good, were they willing to pay a reasonable wage for the effort, and/or a reasonable price for a project.
You answer ads for a freelance Graphic Artist and they want to pay $10/hr or less for a person with talent, skill, experience, personally purchased computer equipment, personally purchased expensive software that would make their project look good, were they willing to pay a reasonable wage for the effort, and/or a reasonable price for a project.