You know you are a Designer when…..

[cissyhu]

This is fun. Mostly for graphic designer. My words are in ().
from: http://richworks.in/2010/09/you-know-you-are-a-designer-when/
You know you are a Designer when…..

1. You (kinda)worship Paul Rand, Dieter Rams or Milton Glaser.  (Well... I'm not really familiar with their bio. But they are big stars for sure )
2. You can give a big lecture on the differences between ART and DESIGN. (Function and form. That's the only different.)
   
3. You see Apple products and you are like “OMG… IT’S SHINY!!!”
4. Your desk is (mostly) clean and you like to keep it as simple as possible.
5. Your blood pressure increases drastically when you see someone using the Comic Sans font. (I was shocked to see a professor using it for an international forum logo)
6. You HATE Comic Sans (just to be really sure!)
7. You like Helvetica but you think it is absolutely unnecessary to use it everywhere. (SO TURE. I'm getting tired when someone always ask me to use it for corporate design)
8. Just by the mere sight of Drop Shadow, Lens Flare and Bevel effect, you get a nervous breakdown.
9. You take nearly 15 minutes to experiment and decide on the perfect color palette. (Not yet. But I'd like to!)
10. GIF Images and scrolling texts make you go absolutely mad.
11. You pay (very)close attention to the tiniest of details and don’t want to make even the simplest of mistakes.
12. You see a typeface in a Logo and you go, “What if…..”
13. You (at least)know what HTML/CSS stands for.
14. If you lay your eyes on a board sign, you immediately start to wonder, “Is that Helvetica or Arial?” (Not yet but very soon.)
15. You get excited when a non-designer asks you to explain your works and eventually get bugged trying to make him understand. (NOT AT AL. I hate to explain things.)
16. You have subscribed to nearly 50 RSS feeds. (So I give up reading them= =)
17. You get the heebie jeebies when you hear someone say IE. (Haha but you cannot leave without IE, especially in China)
18. You know all the shortcuts by heart and can work in Photoshop blindfolded. (That's what I really want to do =0=)
19. Your Bookmark collection is begging for mercy. (It's in a mess and I still found I always missed websites)
20. You get seriously MAD when someone uses Typeface and Font interchangeably. (Very soon)

I did a bit of search and ended up with these awesome stuff as well…..

1. You get totally pissed when you realize the free Photoshop brushes you downloaded are less than 1000px in size. (That's why I don't use brush a lot)
2. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word ‘Final’ in any file name when saving. (I never do that)
3. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix. (Huh?)
4. When you look at an Album art, all you see are Grunge Photoshop Brushes (you notice the album art a few minutes later) (hahahaha....)
5. You’ve actually paid $ for a font. (NEVER.)
6. You have an amazingly huge Font collection and an amazingly high temper. (They're not organized however)
7. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD. (This is for webdesigner)
8. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets. (Haha maybe I will when I have that)
9. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come. (Trying to avoid that)
10. The hottest dream you ever had was “Trace contour… Find Edges… Pinch… Extrude… Smudge Stick… Motion Blur…. Sprayed Strokes…” (For motion designer, yes.)
11. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart. (Not yet...)
12. Looking at a menu makes you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch! (Yes I should do that )
13. “CTRL + Z is the first thing that comes to your mind when you drop something. (When I'm doing hand drawing. Yes)
14. You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed. (That's what I'm going to be very soon.)

It's cool to be a creative nerd.
Have to be sure what I'm going to do.