Are you a hardcore graphic designer and you don’t know it!

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The truth is that hardcore graphic designers are people lost in creation!

They don’t care for anything else except a computer, large collection of fonts, colors and design patterns (and a lot more – all design related) Hence, I’ve compiled a list of traits usually seen in hardcore designers and if you can relate with any of these, you are a hardcore graphic designer (or at least part of you is a hardcore graphic designer).

1. You rip your hair when a free Photoshop brush you downloaded from a site is less than 1000px in size
2. On a date, you’d be more interested in the design pattern on your girlfriend’s shirt rather than her impressive figure
3. You bumped the car in front of you because you were busy analyzing the font on a billboard on the side of the road
4. You use keyboard shortcuts at phenomenal speed even when blindfolded, but you can’t type a small paragraph without staring at the keyboard
5. During work, you consider meals an annoying interruptions
6. You ‘experience’ software nightmares when you’ve been working 20 hours a day
7. You would spend hours upon hours searching for that perfect font! Every time!
8. You would clean your keyboard twice a day; more often than you wash your car
9. You have learned a lesson and stopped using the word ‘final’ in any filename when saving a design!
10. You have, at last, given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers
11. You would spend time organising your desktop rather than your sock drawer
12. You see CMYK and RGB like a genetics engineer seeing genetic code!
13. You nearly had a Design orgasm when you heard that Adobe acquired Macromedia!
14. When you look at Album art, all you can see is grunge Photoshop Brushes. A few minutes later, you notice the Album art.
15. You love Photoshopping a watermark for a mock-up
16. You totally discarded a great design concept because the client thinks that he/she is a great designer. (Everyone thinks they are a great graphic designer)
17. The amount of words you have written with sharp labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in newspapers.
18. Without any affection, you have nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel of death!
19. You’ve kept all your old ragged brochures just so you can scan it, later on down the track
20. You never give the PSD file to your client (bad practice)
21. You have an insanely huge list of bookmarks in you browser that takes 20 minutes to scroll to the bottom
22. Whenever you go to a restaurant, you would spend time critiquing the menu design rather than talking to your girlfriend/wife
23. You have more than 5000 fonts and a very short temper
24. If you’d have been paid a penny for a mouse click, you’d have been a trillionaire 2 years ago.
25. You hate clients that thinks they are better designer than you
26. You have at least 3 additional 1 TB hard disks because you ran out of space on your first hard disk couple of years ago.

I would love to here about what you would add to this list…

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Post written by The Pro Designer on May 19, 2009 in Inspiration, Tools