Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer

You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.

You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.

You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.


You consider meals interruptions.

You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.

You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.

You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.

You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.

You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.

When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.

You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.

You’ve actually paid for a font.

You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)

The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.

You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.

You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.

You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.