A Few Reasons I Might Be A Hardcore Designer

• I’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of me because I was analyzing a font on a billboard.
• I get pissed when a free Photoshop brush I download is less than 1000px in size.
• I’d rather study the paisley pattern on your girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what she has to say.
• I can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but I can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
• I’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when I’ve been working way too much.
• I consider meals interruptions.
• I’ve learned my lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
• I clean my keyboard more often than I wash my car.
• I’ve intentionally given up trying to explain my projects to non-designers.
• I see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
• I’d rather organize my desktop than my sock drawer.
• When I look at Album art all I see is grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then I see the album art a couple minutes later)
• I’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
• I’ve actually paid for a font.
• I’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 I’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words I’ve read in novels.
• I’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
• I’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so I could scan it.
• I’ve nicknamed the Mac spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
• I bookmarked a resource more often than I’ve had a fun night out on the town.
• I’ve intentionally overbid a project because I can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
• I can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
• I have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
• If I had a penny for every mouse click, I would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.