1. You have bags under your eyes so big you'd have to check them in at Heathrow Airport
2. You watch the superbowl just for the commercials
3. You can spot bad typography from 100 yds away
4. You are pro-facebook because 95% of the myspace accounts burn your retinas
5. You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes
6. You are completely immune to subliminal advertising
7. You look upon a well-designed project with either: sympathy OR extreme jealousy
8. Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse
9. You tell stories of exacto-knife inflicted wounds with grizzled sort of pride
10. You practically take caffeine intravenously
11. You have an appreciation for everything unique
12. You've been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit. You find yourself overcome by Deathlust.
13. You find your pulse increase at the sight of a lovely ligature, glasses steam up when an unusually elegant arm, leg, or tail comes in view, and a well-kerned paragraph is apt to make you break into a sweat with excitement.
14. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you buy a CD or DVD for the artwork, even if you have no idea what the actual music or film is like. (even worse, you don't actually watch or listen to it, just stare at it for hours and hug it in adoration)
15. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you look at the clock and see it's about midnight and think 'I'll go to bed now'... and you actually go to bed about 2-3am.
16. You know you're a Graphic Designer when... you need someone else to point out that you're sitting in a room in front of the computer with all the lights off, and haven't noticed
17. When you know what "kerning" is and you really, really like it.
18. When you wear two [ke] [rn] pins on your bag, and only you know what the mean. To others its probably a band of sorts.
19. Forget the boy-wonder and the man of steel; your heroes have names like 'Tibor Kalman', 'Stefan Sagmeister', 'Paul Rand', and 'Paula Scher'.
20. You don't wear black to look cool, you wear it to hide the gauche.
21. You have a thing for chairs. You don't know why.
22. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
23. You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
24. You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
25. Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure.
26. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
27. You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
28. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn't come.
29. You're up 'til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
30. The hottest dream you ever had was "Trace contour... Find Edges... Pinch... Extrude... Smudge Stick... Motion Blur.... Sprayed Strokes..."
31. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
32. Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.
33. The preschool teacher complains your child won't color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet.
34. Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash.
35. You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a “Too Cool for IE” banner on it.
36. You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife’s Satin.
37. You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because "it's the only one where the lower-case g is just right..."
38. Looking at a menu make you go "hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic" rather than "mmmm, lunch!"
39. And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture...
40. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
41. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
42. You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed.
43. You refer to your privates as "the Magic Wand".
44. You know that rivers are more than just water.
45. Your best friends are all employees at the local print shop
46. The only people who seem to know what you do for a living are other Graphic Designers (ex: Graphic Design? What's that? You'll never be able to make a living being an artist!)
47. Kerning and leading on your shopping list actually matters to you, and you don't see a problem with that.
48. Several South American economies suffer noticeably any time you try to give up coffee, or even cut your consumption of it by half.
49. You know that "bleeding" doesn't hurt.
50. When your significant other/ friends have threatened to never speak to you again if you point out one more font to them.
51. When you know the difference between fuchsia, magenta, and maroon.
52. If you could go back in time you wouldn't go back to see the rise and fall of civilizations, you'd go back in time to destroy comic sans and papyrus.
53. You Know You're a Graphic Designer When deciding on the right crop doesn't involve a choice between corn or wheat.
54. You've considered naming your children things like 'Kern', 'Pica', 'Bézier', and 'Serif'.
55. You can understand everything on this list.
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56. You’ve had a client that thought they knew more about design than you.
57. Your clients pay you for your professional expertise and skill, yet you’ve run into one of ‘those’ clients, that refuses to take the advice from the very person he/she is paying for advice (you).
58. You’ve had a client that insisted on using the font “Papyrus,” and you had to hold in your barf as you prepped it [the design] for printing.
59. You’ve requested a vector logo from a client, and instead, they email you a 72 dpi image they grabbed from a website.
60. You’ve used typography as a texture.
61. You don’t have a favorite font because you love “Typography.” Not Fonts. Choosing a favorite font would be like choosing a favorite child, it’s just wrong.
62. You collect as many free stuffs from the interwebs as you can on your hard drive, hoping that one day, that cool project will come along that you can actually use some cool shit on.
63. You’d rather have a free font than a free gallon of gas.
64. It’s hard to talk about frustrations at your job with a group of friends because they have no idea what “Vector” or “DPI” is, just to name a couple.
65. You’ve had a client ask you to “Make the logo bigger.”
66. You’ve had a client that insists on “filling up the space.”
67. You’ve learned to over-price web design projects because most clients are more picky about their websites than a high school girl picking out a prom dress.
68. You feel like you’re “On Call” half of the time because clients procrastinate so much.
69. You know keyboard shortcuts that require 4 fingers.
70. You’ve lost hours of work because an application crashed, and you had to start over from scratch because you were in the “zone” and forgot to save. Basically, you were having so much fun being creative that saving was the last thing on your mind at the time.
71. You’ve “Live-Traced” something.
72. You spend more hours per week looking at CSS showcase sites than you do at the gym.
73. The only thing that would make you happier than the demise of IE6 is world peace.
74. You’ve done everything but give up a body part to talk a client out of a “Flash Intro.” Yeah. I said it. Flash Intro. Sad, so so sad. (goes along with #2)
75. You have enough fonts on your hard drive to last you for: 1 font per day for about a decade, give or take a year or two.
76. You know, explicitly, what a “Flourish” is.
77. You worry about negative space as much as the content area.
78. You get phone calls from friends and family members on a regular, sometimes annoyingly-frequent basis, wanting your services for free or extremely cheap. (and the “portfolio” line makes you want to throw something across the room)
79. You’ve had a client that wants a website they can “update” on their own, but doesn’t know shit about websites.
80. You’re never more than 99% happy with your final product because you believe that EVERYTHING can be improved upon. (especially with those tight-deadline projects)
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bittbox81. You learned your lesson and stopped using the word final in any file name when saving.
82. You consider meals interruptions.
83. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
84. You nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
85. You almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
86. You would rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend's shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
87. You kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
88. You intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
89. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
90. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can't type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
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Youknowster91. You search the internet constantly for anything design related.
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Joshua R. DavisThere are more to come, in the meantime, feel free to leave more ideas in the comments or let me know of any double entries
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Well, not quite. That headline may be a little misleading. If you are a web designer or developer though, you know how fast the web evolves, and I don't need to explain why IE6 is a festering pile of yesterdays news. However, the average Joe is left blissfully unaware of the massive headaches, pain, frustration, and general discomfort he is causing us. That may all change very soon as more creative attempts are made to grab users attention.
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