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MzHartz


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I thought at least JD or Squonk would get a kick out of this.  (I've bolded the ones I relate to the most.)

Learn to spot the warning signs in time you know you're becoming a design geek when:

   1. You smile that spanking-kind-of-smile when you use the CSS property: padding-bottom.

   2. You know exactly what I'm referring to when I say "Make my logo bigger".

   3. Every now and then you go through a herbal tea phase to try and reduce your dependence to coffee, but you always go back to the inky demon eventually. (I thought I was the only one who did this!)

   4. You've caught yourself more than once hitting CTRL or CMD+N when you need a coffee refill...

   5. Sleep and nighttime are no longer irrevocably linked.

   6. You have woken up in the middle of the night your sleep and started recreating the dream you just had in Photoshop.

   7. When getting up, you wish you had a healing brush/patch tool for those unsightly blemishes and undereye luggage.

   8. Your keyboard could definitely be someones grocery list - you're eating there constantly.

   9. You know several Photoshop shortcuts that require 4 fingers
      (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+K anyone?).

  10. Whenever you see fog on a forested hillside, you think, nature is making a gaussian blur.

  11. You're sitting in the movie theater watching the movie titles, shaking your head at how badly they're kerned.

  12. Your biggest fear is Papyrus becoming the new Comic Sans. (I HATE Papyrus!! And my old boss used it all the time!)

  13. 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.

  14. Your most romantic date was when you went to see Helvetica by Gary Hustwit. (Actually, I haven't seen this yet.)

  15. You've considered naming your children things like 'Kern', 'Pica', 'Bézier', 'Nyala', and 'Serif'.

  16. You are trying catch the post-it notes at your monitor with your cursor.

  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. (And then they'll want to make something italicized or bolder.)

  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.

  19. You have an uncanny ability to automatically see when something is lined up properly without the need for tools or devices, for instance if a shelf is straight, and where the center of the wall is to hang a picture.

  20. And as a direct cause, get an almost uncontrollable urge to adjust a painting that's tilted ever so slightly.

  21. And when in doubt, you automatically think CTRL or CMD+;

  22. When girls are picking up Vogue and Cosmopolitan drooling over the latest trend in eye makeup and trying to figure out how to accomplish the the same effect, you're drooling over the most amazing 2 page advertising spread you've ever seen - trying to figure out how to accomplish the the same Photoshop effect...

  23. You actually understand this post and pass it on to your fellow geeks friends.

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LOL each of the ones you highlighted are exactly it!
I'm on the herbal tea phase right now....biggrin.gif

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5. Sleep and nighttime are no longer irrevocably linked.

True of any network job!

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I really never realized that others did the herbal tea phase too.

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I have the same problems but in different ways.

I'm constantly typing Linux commands into things that have no idea what I'm asking it to do.



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oh squonk and I are bad coffee junkies. no.gif
I think we've gotten a bit better tho.

part of it is not wanting to have to brew a new pot in the afternoon when ya only want a cup....

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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.

My daughter complains about this in the graphic design classes she's taking.  She says her teachers almost always pick her least favorite design and want her to enter it in various "art" contests they have.


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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

oh squonk and I are bad coffee junkies. no.gif
I think we've gotten a bit better tho.

part of it is not wanting to have to brew a new pot in the afternoon when ya only want a cup....




hold it... coffee is the only option. tea is really cute but, does not satisfy my buds.

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ghostdancer wrote:

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.

My daughter complains about this in the graphic design classes she's taking.  She says her teachers almost always pick her least favorite design and want her to enter it in various "art" contests they have.





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I so missed it by worrying about everyone else. Now, I'm old and have limited time to f off.

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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.

My daughter complains about this in the graphic design classes she's taking.  She says her teachers almost always pick her least favorite design and want her to enter it in various "art" contests they have.


Tell her that's a good thing.

First it prepares her for the "real" world.

But secondly, it means she's probably producing something different.  There's a lot of designers in this town, and I can tell which ones design by the book, which is the way I always found the teachers want it.  The teachers are probably picking the one with the best "design elements," instead of the one that's most creative.  I've always thought art schools focus on the wrong things when it comes to graphic design, too much design theory, not enough practical application.

 



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Presently, I'm working on some flyers for a local dual sport rider club. (Enduro motorcycles)
I inherited the previous layouts. QuarkXpress. Yuk.
The "designer" used all kinds of weird fonts. Luckily, they were supplied. My plan... convert it to CS2 layouts, change fonts to more common ones (similar appearance, etc)
The toughest part, I'm doing it for free. I need to keep in mind that it's an experience. Learning to work via email, phone with volunteers is a challenge.
I'll keep you posted.

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At least it's Quark and not Publisher. But still, I'd probably take it into InDesign as well. I have a nifty tool on my work computer that'll let me bring the Quark file into InDesign.

As long as the fonts are included, I wouldn't worry about changing them, unless you have a particular reason for doing so. In InDesign, you can package the file for output so the fonts will be included.

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MzHartz wrote:

 

ghostdancer wrote:

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.

My daughter complains about this in the graphic design classes she's taking.  She says her teachers almost always pick her least favorite design and want her to enter it in various "art" contests they have.


Tell her that's a good thing.

First it prepares her for the "real" world.

But secondly, it means she's probably producing something different.  There's a lot of designers in this town, and I can tell which ones design by the book, which is the way I always found the teachers want it.  The teachers are probably picking the one with the best "design elements," instead of the one that's most creative.  I've always thought art schools focus on the wrong things when it comes to graphic design, too much design theory, not enough practical application.

 

 


I bet that's what it is Mz.  She loves her creative projects a lot more, and can't understand why the teachers aren't suggesting those projects be entered in the contests.  They're probably looking at all the design elements being incorporated in her least favorites.  I'll let her know that it probably means a good thing that they're picking these. smile

 



-- Edited by ghostdancer at 13:07, 2008-12-11

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