You Know You’re A Graphic Designer When…
You watch the superbowl just for the commercials.
You can spot bad typography from 100 yds away.
You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes.
You are completely immune to subliminal advertising.
You tell stories of exacto-knife inflicted wounds with pride.
You practically take caffeine intravenously.
You have an appreciation for everything unique.
You’ve been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit.
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)
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.
When you know what “kerning” is and you really, really like it.
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.
You have a thing for chairs. You don’t know why.
You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife’s Satin.
Looking at a menu make you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!.
The only people who seem to know what you do for a living are other Graphic Designers.
You know that “bleeding” doesn’t hurt.
When you know the difference between fuchsia and magenta.
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.
You can understand everything on this list.
