Small business owner, graphic designer, article writer & blogger. Marnie lives on the Central Coast of New South Wales and spends most of her day doodling in Illustrator, liasing with clients and trying to keep from having 'just one more' bottle of delicious but addictive V. 
Repost: 25 reasons you might be a hardcore graphic/web designer
While trawling through the crud that covers the pages of Digg, I found an awesome post from Bittbox. Original source here.
I had to have a giggle that most, if not all, of these apply to me. Enjoy!
25 reasons you might be a hardcore graphic/web designer:
1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
6. You consider meals interruptions.
7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
12. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.
16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
17. 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.
18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.
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September 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Hey Marnie,
love your blog! You’ve designed it so well!
This is post is great - I must admit though, to doing some of those things myself!!
September 9th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Brilliant list, I am most certainly guilty of a few of these (epecially no 4)! I love the idea of a design orgasm!!
September 13th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Wow, that list is unbelievably accurate! One that I could add to the list is “You go on vacation to Italy and Ireland and within your holiday snaps are pictures of cool logos and ads that you saw”!
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September 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Haha, that’s a good one!
September 17th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Oh man, #3 really hits home.
I used to help a buddy shoot weddings on occasion. Inevitably, half of my shots were always of hotel wallpaper, ceiling patterns, carpet patterns, etc. to use later on in other web design work.
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September 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am
I’m the same. I have a thing for patterned ceilings in particular. I’ve found some great ones lately. Hey, there’s an idea for a post. :p
Thanks for your comment!
September 19th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hahaha! Good list and although I don’t do these SPECIFIC things, I do my own version with jewellery!
BTW, I’ve given you an award : http://annettepiperjewellery.blogspot.com/2008/09/quirindi-last-week-merriwa-this-week.html
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September 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
WOW! Thanks Annette! I’ll take a look now and see what this award business is about.
BTW, maybe you should make a list about the similar things you do as a jewellery designer and post it on your blog?
September 21st, 2008 at 12:21 am
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September 27th, 2008 at 3:14 am
I’m guilty of #7. Haha! When the final had to be revised, I would name it final1, final2 and the list goes on! So I stopped naming my files like that. Haha…
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September 28th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Keane: Haha. I’ve learned my lesson! I don’t name anything ‘final’ until 2 seconds before it goes to print (or whever it’s meant to go). Hehe.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
HAHAHAH, osx. what the hell kinda designer are you?
September 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Richard: one that doesn’t use OSX.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:34 am
These points are way too close to the mark : ) The comment about labeling things final….. when will I learn. Spot on
October 10th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Brilliant list. Rings true as I am also guilty of a lot of these. My wife hates when we go out to eat and I critique the menu design (most of the time they’re badly designed) or talk about typography and fonts. I’m lucky she’s still around.
Great blog, you’ve been bookmarked/subscribed.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Dan, I’m exactly the same! Lucky my husband is also a designer and it doesn’t bother him TOO much. I do get told that I need to stop analysing the font on billboards and signs all the time though. :p
Thanks for dropping by!
January 5th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Late to the party, but this is eerily true. I’m one for analyzing everything outside and showing much disdain to menus printed in Word. Great stuff!
March 17th, 2009 at 12:43 am
Very good. I must admit, I had a mini breakdown when I heard Adobe was taking over Macromedia - the latter we’re gods in the web design community Adobe were Newb’s with not much experience and their still learning how to put together a good application from the masters to this day.
Please don’t think I’m rude but I couldn’t help noticing the baseline of the copy in the flash in the top right corner has gone wobbly