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Top 10 Reasons You know you're a Hardcore Graphic Designer:

  1. You can?t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    35 up, 17 down
  2. You?ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    31 up, 16 down
  3. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    32 up, 18 down
  4. You?d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend?s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    33 up, 19 down
  5. You?ve actually $paid for a font.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    34 up, 20 down
  6. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can?t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    27 up, 16 down
  7. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    32 up, 21 down
  8. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    28 up, 17 down
  9. 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.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    30 up, 19 down
  10. You?ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    24 up, 14 down


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Web designers are responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of a website. This role may overlap with that of a Multimedia programmer and web architect.

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More reasons You know you're a Hardcore Graphic Designer

  1. You?ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn?t part of the deal.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    24 up, 15 down
  2. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    24 up, 15 down
  3. You?ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word ?final? in any file name when saving.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    29 up, 21 down
  4. You?ve had ?Software Nightmares,? when you?ve been working way too much.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    25 up, 18 down
  5. You consider meals interruptions.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    25 up, 18 down
  6. You?d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    24 up, 18 down
  7. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    23 up, 17 down
  8. You?ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    24 up, 20 down
  9. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    22 up, 18 down
  10. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    22 up, 18 down
  11. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    22 up, 19 down
  12. You?ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    20 up, 17 down
  13. You?ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    19 up, 18 down
  14. You?ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    22 up, 23 down
  15. You?ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
    by webchilly | October 22, 2008 at 1:03am. | add comment
    21 up, 23 down

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