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23 Signs You're Becoming a Design Geek

crestock.com — Indeed a list of harsh realities - a testament to the fact that graphic design isn't created, but observed. And true designers exist in that space 24 hours a day!

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 5, 2008

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  • mds40, on 12/05/2008, -0/+67dugg for #17 and #18.

    # 17 You know that, by default, if three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen - or any combination of worst components of each.

    # 18 You also know that if you ask for more copy it will be sent as a Jpeg; If you ask for images they will be sent as PowerPoint presentations; if you ask for a vector logo, it'll come in the form of a Gif – from their website.
  • jfdolier, on 12/04/2008, -1/+49#24: You're reading an article about whether or not you're a design geek
  • UberNick, on 12/05/2008, -0/+16If you named your kid "Serif", what wording would you use to describe his absence?
  • caitlinwoodward, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12I'm a web developer, but I don't understand what padding-bottom has to do with anything about being a design geek?
  • ashura001, on 12/05/2008, -1/+13What does Ubuntu have to do with design?
  • mike648, on 12/05/2008, -2/+14Is that Waldo?
  • bigmacur, on 12/05/2008, -1/+12he looks nothing like a ciggarete...
  • digitalArtform, on 12/05/2008, -0/+10I wouldn't use a Gaussian blur to suggest fog.
  • inactive, on 12/05/2008, -3/+13#27 - you think the first 23 are for n00bs
  • phatcat77, on 12/05/2008, -2/+11SAN!!! MUTHHA FUKKKA!!!
  • inactive, on 12/04/2008, -1/+9Before I finished reading it I had already done sign number 23.
  • Dejital, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8I don't think Photoshop has implemented tabbed browsing yet.....
  • phatcat77, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8Also it always ends up being the one you spent the least amount of time on, or is going to be the hardest to pull off.
  • WiretapStudios, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Why must any occupation involving a computer mean that people have to revel in their geekness? I live in the sexy future dammit!
  • jknevitt, on 12/05/2008, -1/+8This is coming from a guy who calls himself "jedimasterchief".
  • nikki2300dk, on 12/05/2008, -3/+10"You smile that spanking-kind-of-smile when you use the CSS property: padding-bottom."

    No. I smile because someone else takes care of programming.

  • Blackwater027, on 12/05/2008, -1/+8I get all of these i just don't think they are remotely humorous.
  • zambuka, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6I've experienced #18 more than any other. Although to make it closer to my experience the last few words should be "it'll come in the form of a gif - from their website, from the 1996 version when the site was optimised for dialup". Or on one occasion they kept sending me the favicon version of their logo ("that should work, you can just enlarge it for the website right?").
  • inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6CS4 is here! piratebay ftw.............................
  • inactive, on 12/05/2008, -1/+712. Your biggest fear is Papyrus becoming the new Comic Sans.

    I'm just a sophmore psyche student and that is my biggest (design) fear...

    Ugh.
  • waxdart, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6#25: You have a passion for the minutiae of typography, contrast, composition, use of positive and negative space.

    #26: You know who Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, Milton Glaser and David Carson are and care about what they've contributed to the field.
  • theadvinci, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6Sleep and nighttime are no longer irrevocably linked - It isn't!
  • Dejital, on 12/05/2008, -1/+7Sans-serif?
  • concertina, on 12/05/2008, -0/+512 Your biggest fear is Papyrus becoming the new Comic Sans.

    "What do you think you're running from?! The disease is inside of you!"

    Also, http://bancomicsans.com/
  • PeterVRules, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5Wow.
  • Dejital, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5How come? A gaussian blur on a few grey paintbrushed lines is probably the quickest way to get a fog effect.
  • Hero0fTime, on 12/05/2008, -0/+424. You dugg this.
  • sarixe, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4he looks as bad as a used one, though.
  • inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4My latest client sent me his MS Paint version of a logo for me to use as a starting point.

    The company name was in . . . you guessed it - Papyrus. I'd never used it before, but I thought there'd be no harm in sticking with it, in fact, it made me kind of laugh to imagine the horror of the Papyrus haters if they ever land at the site.
  • BrendanSheehan, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4Where?
  • jeexbit, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Dugg for 23 - Hail Eris!

    I also want to add that Comic Sans makes me physically ill...
  • ChromaVita, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3But CS4 IS on its way...
  • groonk, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3truedat
  • Gareth321, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4Anyone think the funniest bit of the whole article is the picture?
  • Aturaten, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4A little known fact is that designers and markup coders are not interchangable. They are, in fact, different things.
  • topgigmedia, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3ah crap! Another thing to beat myself up about.
  • mingohills, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Should these least be less comprehensible to the lay person? I didn't know designers were the only ones that drank coffee!!!
  • OutThere, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2just change the names, and these apply to any computing profession! LOL
  • groonk, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2they had me at #3
  • inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2God doesn't love you.
  • AtomicDog1471, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Tbh I don't see what all the fuss is in this article about Papyrus is about... it's nowhere near comparable to comic sans.
  • prodigitalson, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Yeah thats what happens after years of interaction with clients.
  • parisinflames, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2the first few are just for geeks

    the latter ones are the only ones of worth but never-the-less they make up for they stereotypical kind of things merely associated with hardcore computer users
  • Discobiscuits, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2The site is handling the load quite fine, sir.
  • AlanLivingston, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2He may or may not be a designer, but as the second comment to the article states, "web designers aren't graphic designers and graphic designers aren't designers."

    There was a Joel Spolsky blog post a while ago saying that web design was really decoration. He used as evidence an old architectural drawing instructions, where the architect left some decorative detail decision to the decorator. His hypothesis being that the architect was the designer and the interior decorator was not a designer, even though they call themselves that now. He used this analogy to argue that web developers are not designers. The designers are the guys that do all the hard stuff behind the scenes that make everything work. What is typically called design now, is really just decoration.
  • Authustian, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2you skipped 16...
  • pattyman5000, on 12/05/2008, -1/+3I'm a designer and I thought they sucked too.
  • ZoomBoy, on 12/05/2008, -1/+3Same
  • inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Number something: I try to use the smudge tool on my poorly-written prose.
  • NinjaGod, on 12/05/2008, -8/+10Those ***** sucked.
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