50 reasons not to date a graphic designer
1. They are very weird people.
2. There are billions of them in the world, like colors on the screen of your computer.
3. They will analyse conversations in layers.
4. You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA.
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
6. They hate each other.
7. You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
8. They cant change a light bulb or without making a sketch.
9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.
10. They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.
11. They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.
12. You never know if it is really an original or a copy.
13. They make collages with your photos.
14. They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.
15. They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.
16. They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.
17. They ask your opinion about everything but they do whatever they want.
18. Everything is left justified, right or center unless they arrive late.
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
20. They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.
21. You can not decorate the house without consulting them.
22. They steal street signs.
23. Always carry their hands painted with something.
24. They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.
25. Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …
26. When arguing, you will be nicknamed like the OSX spinning wheel (not affectionately)
27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
28. They hate Excel.
29. They read comics.
30. They want to save the world only with a poster.
31. You will spend the day brainstorming.
32. On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.
33. Museums are their second home.
34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
36. They listen to music you have never heard of.
37. They can´t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.
38. They read rare books: stories of children, Semiotics …
39. When you are going to tell you something, everyone has read it in their facebook and twitter.
40. They have own iPods before you knew they existed.
41. The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
42. They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.
43. They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.
44. You will never understand their gifts.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.
46. You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming “When is the deadline?”
47. They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
48. They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs.
49. They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.
50. They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.
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hah. lots in common. i read comics too.
And now you have a MAC.. now you are hooked!
Well, you dont read much comics, do you?
Two salesmen and one woman pushed ten mac-products my way, like preachers selling the ten commandments (and the Gospel of Jesus) – but I only needed this cheap one that is easy to write on.
It is possible to get great deals on the old Mac Air, the one without flash-memory.
Don´t you remember the original lithography in my bedroom? an original ALEX VARENNE?
http://www.alexvarenne.com/
(well, on the other hand, no, probably not ;P)
is so hard to find those comics in Norway
i see some one has suffered before from dating a graphic designer lol
Several under my “command”, shank 😀
lol
hahaha it seems like that !!
haha..:) it seems so. But a nice post to read. I am a Graphic Designer but not all of them are in common.
hahahaha!!!!
Me too. What I wonder why having more positions than the kama sutra is a bad thing
Lulz 19… couldn’t be more true
“Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.” Ha!
This one is my fav: They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.
LMAO! Great list!
p.s. Confession: I am no designer of any sort yet I did pay for a font once ’cause, you know, it is so pretty… Ok. I must go and tweet this list.
I swear, some fonts are sooo arousing…
tnx sweetie!
Well as a graphic designer I offer to date you to change your mind. or maybe just cheap sex
ok, Rich, but since I am a designer myself I must advise that you should send me a brief first, production timeline of the date, a CMKY chromalin, plus spots colors of your underwear…
😀
The only good part, I’m sure we’ll need plenty of revisions so we’ll have to keep doing it till we get it right.
Pissing in the corners:
No need, I know.
lolll
#22 They steal street signs!
LOL I instantly decided I love them. This would almost offset the studying the patterns on my clothing rather than listening to me talk, love of iPhones, which I hate (I love the Android OS) and the not knowing how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
That’s right. I am so mischeivious, steal a street sign and I will forgive all the rest. 😉
Thanks, WS.. I say, lets steal street signs together with a 4/C bottle of Bourbon in hand…. YEAH!!!
Hahaha great post! 🙂
omg this was hilarious! i’ve worked with graphic designers for years, and this is all so true! they are crazy with their cutters, aren’t they? always cutting tables, photos, packaging, it’s like their third hand. best list ever.
this is me, Patty.. totally! for good AND for bad! HA! 😀
and the list is so universal, it applies to us South East Asia folk.
I am veeeery interested about who the hell is this attention whore?! 😛
But Martine…. 😀
“5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.”
LOL – I do this too. Does that make me an honorary graphic designer? Even though I still dress like an engineer? Please?
Absolutely! then you are one of “us”
engineer is just a fancy name for designer
Sorry, I’ll have to disagree with y’all there. Engineers are more about functionality than aesthetic. 🙂
no, no, nic… l am very nice! (weird, but nice!)
😦
I know you’re lovely 🙂
I am a little OCDish myself thinking about it
have a nice day!!
I buy fonts…all the time. And photoshop brushes. And everytime there is a new CS upgrade I am out on the street corner whoring my self out to gather up the cash to procure this next most fantastic version.
SOMEBODY THAT UNDERSTANDS ME!!! THANK GOD!!! 😀
The Excel part was the only true one I saw..
It’s not all that different for illustrators either, just less of the new technology. Thanks for making me smile 😀
Welcome, Heide
yeah, I know a few illustrators and they are pretty much as dysfunctional as us… you just do it with prettier pictures!! 😀
😀
Perfect! I so identify with this… hehe!
lol
Awesomest Post ever!
Good to see someone from India. Great post indeed. Agree with 70%
OMG… this is so damn true.. i loved it!!! lol
@Shibani, prabuddha, Mrinalini and Afia Batool: Welcome!
Yes, l am sure many designers can rely to this 😉
Ha Ha Ha :O…….lol……
LAMO 😀 thats so true
haha!!! love this!
So me! I design jewelry though! not graphics!!
I love cutters!! hate excel!!! IM REAL BAD WITH ACCOUNTS TOO
Vinita, I thank God that the skin on our thumbs grow again! lol
So very true ones!
Great article.
thanks 😀
Who is keeping an eye on me…;) hahaha
This thing is really crazy…but true.
” They are always sleepy because they work 24/7. “
This is very true… All of them
This list make me wanna designer even more! I think they’re adorable ( dang hope i didnt sound so weirdo ! )
I work as motion designer, and we host a sport activity weekly. we invite ad agency nxt door to join. So i had a crush on ths girl frm the agency ( i supposed shes a graphic designer ) n now im imagining she’s doing all the list above, very kinky! Guilty pleasure :p
PJ: go end get the woman… she may have what is ion the list ands more! 🙂
Good luck
I like all the facts! We are Freaks, we are Nerds and we are HOT!
Cheers Silvia…
Welcome, Grace Amelia 🙂
Yes, yes and YES!
So True !!
As a former designer, I can’t help myself to think how weird I was.
Your list almost cover all of my weirdness.
But… After these years..
Nah ! I can’t help it, the designer in me still do no 10 and 35 !
No 30 is my favorite. 😀
Ha ! Single poster ! Change the world !
Good luck, susaN. WHEN YOU GET IT PUBLISH, PÅLEASE SHARE IT WITH ALL OF US!
😀
34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
These are reasons I would definitely date a guy like that. 😀
THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!
😀
Yep, a few reason there why to date a graphic designer – and I married one.
Woaw ! This post is soooo true ! I love it and share it ! AWESOME !!!
Hehe, great read! 😀
😛
Welcome, Christian
“They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.” , dude that`s fucked`up, even for a designer :))
haha I think they are talking about the “munny”. those ones and you draw on them . they are very popular now. just google it and you’ll see.
Well I must point out that not every motive out there is true. Part from being a designer is that you’re a human. And you do socialize. And not in the way you pointed out.
Welcome here, Laurentiu
well, this is very true – we *are* people, not stickers, and yes, we do socialise (even though our social skills may be a little weir).
Put is this way: we are like supoerheroes, with 2 lifes 🙂
I don’t even like iPhones : /
But I admit to myself that I am weird. 😛
the last one “They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.” hahaha…. alot of my friends looks like this…the eyes of Panda :DD
Sure it’s related to a non sleeping aspect ?
that’s right!!!!
he he
Oh the day where I will submit a design and they will be NO revisions.. what a dream…
plus I can’t stand going to a restaurant and critiquing the menu design!
Hahaha… greatt lisstt! GD-ers r weiiirddd…But I wanntt onee! Ups, I do have one 🙂 & I love her 😀
🙂 😀 🙂 😀 C00L!! But I don’t hate Excel. I don’t like MS Ofice and Windows :-/.
i thing the whole MS Office is plain evil… he he
I used to drink Sprite remix just because I liked the packaging, but not even the soda that much. Haha. I’m a sucker for clear stuff.
There you have it, Kellye.. you are my type of guy…
34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra. is that a bad reason? am not sure….
u miss THEY ARE KINDA SNOB
Snob? naaaaa… we are just plain weird 😛
hehe
beacuse his dick is like to beautifully mise en scene
This post made me feel at home!
This is good. I miss GD world.
1. They are very weird people. – lots of ppl say im weird 😦
3. They will analyse conversations in layers. – so true
4. You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA. – not really.. but i did spend ages in IKEA 😛
9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters. – don’t even have one decent table at mine lol
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica. – true
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design. – that is soo me lol
Welcome, Luvleen 😀
are you a twin sister? Maybe, since this l digg: http://www.luvleendesign.com/graphic%20art.htm
thank you 🙂 twin? twin designer right ? lol 🙂
sure! if somebody can do cloning, it is us, Luvleen! 🙂
lol.. that is soo true.. see another reason lol haha 🙂
Loving it..
very very true, lots in common!
Welcome, anna, and thanks 🙂
(BTW… I digg Rodchenko big time also…)
No. 51. When making lists they fail to proof read.
i agree. we designers can’t spell for nuts… lol
LOL! … love it and so, so true!
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging. – LOL … so me
9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters. – LOL
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica. – Yep
21. You can not decorate the house without consulting them. – Yep
28. They hate Excel. – OH Yeah! with a passion
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design. – Def me!
36. They listen to music you have never heard of. – Me again
52. They can spot a typo in someone else’s work except for their own
52. They can spot a typo in someone else’s work except for their own
Good one, Anil!!!! ;P
like always, there are lots in common but at the same time some have no sense
most of them made me LOL but, hey, is kinda true >///<
Hi Soda, lol is the thing… but which ones do you think make no sense? maybe l can explain… but then again… maybe not!!
he he
Hahahahaha.
HAHAHA i’m a graphic designer myself, and i forwarded your list to all my graphic designer friends, and they all said, OMG ITS SO TRUE… legend!!!
Welcome, Marisa 😀
BRILLIANT! Laughed a lot!
Hahaha, they hate excel – true story!
Made me laugh, so thanks for the post!
Greetings,
pixel.301’s Tobi
Welcome, Tobias..
Yeap.. l develop a rashes when l have to open any Microsoft document.. he he
Wow! 🙂
I LOOOOOOOOVE Excel!
And you are very allowed…. BTW.. what planet are you from?
My favorite -> They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging! hahahaha!
I had a hard time picking my milk until I saw a pretty one with the sun i don’t even know the name!
See? and it makes perfect sense to us, right?
How is 34 a bad thing?
It’s not.
Arthur knows.. oh yeah! he knowsT
SO freakin’ TRUE. 😀 Every last one of them. 😉
Man, I’m never going to truly be a [web] designer. *lol* I really like Excel and I hate iPhones.
Dont you worry, Al you will grow off it.. and coooome to us…. ;D
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
Absolutely! And also not so secretly sometimes, depending on the person I’m with. They gotta be ready for it. Haha.
53. They won’t use your favorite website because they don’t use CSS3 and have chosen Arial as the main font.
AAAAHH HAHAHA!
precious!
l am already in CS5, so that makes it worst, and BTW, if your date doesnt appreciate your “pickyness” with proper design,… well.. ay ay ay..
This frightens me with its accurate portrayal of certain aspects of my personality, I had hoped no-one else had noticed, but it’s good to know I’m not alone!
we are all a big bunch, Helen, so no, fortunately you are not alone!!
XOXO
Sadly the one I identify most with is numero 50, but this list is too close to what I can be like. It’s in my head, BURN IT! =P
so true… :’)
Ah, seems to be written by a geek-hating, playing-in-the-dirt tree-hugger! 🙂
1. I am the only normal person I know.
4. Even tree-huggers should appreciate that.
5. Hmmm.
10. The paisley pattern was made by someone. Listen to him/her.
12. The trade-offs of modern technology.
17. It’s good to be polite.
19. Who likes Comic Sans???
28. Obviously. It’s made by M…mmm….mmmm… forget it.
30. A rolled poster hurts.
34. Direct result from 31. Brainstorming. Still complaining?
35. Just because we eat in a restaurant, doesn’t mean everything else should be
41. Adobe sucks, but it’s the only option.
48. Talk about wearied people! Everyone wants to make a change!
OMG! I messed up everything! wearied?
Atkins,
behind my heels and the professional pose, there is one the geekiest girls ever -and l love it, and l am proud of it! 🙂 No designer should like Comic Sans, and for that matter, believe that Adobe sucks… c’mon.. Adobe is like… our Rosetta stone!
No, darling, you didn’t mess up everything, you just didn’t read things right (c’mon, try again.. you will like it!
😀
Oh, it was all written with a smile! 🙂
And I did like it!
41. The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
I was really really happy when i read of this NEWS. 🙂
Amir, my second formal orgasm comes the day l know fonts like comic sans or gyddy up will be exterminated…
Welcome here 🙂 PS: Digg your audio mixes!
Like the song “sad but true”
Maybe I could change the 14th.
14.- They only know how to add an substract in terms of color.
(C=
Jimbo!!! niiiice!
These are just fckin hipsters
Hipsters?
naaa maybe just misunderstood…
OMG so me!
10. They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.
am a graphic designer and hahhahahaha i have to admit.. this is SOOO TRUE!!
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design. (LOL i do that all the time)
48. They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs. and this is my favorite!
Hilarious! All the bold points are so bang on. Shifting my design career a bit, reading this, I think I’ll a part of me will always be a designer. Lol!!
No, Daisy!
We are natural born like that 😀 But whatever you are shifting to, l wish you the best, darling!
XOXO
Yep. You just described me 🙂
I would add …
– They want to retouch everything e.g. if the pattern of the cobblestone is out of alignment they ask for the clone stamp
– If they make mistakes (even) off the job they scream „-Z!“
– They mess up your apartment with sample stuff like paper bags, labels, …
– They also hate word and corel draw
– They unfold any complex cardboard box to analyse how it’s produced
– They are unbeatable in twisting their fingers (4-finger-shortcut)
– They describe colors in cymk – like 100/60/0/75 which is dark blue
– They’re never bored (even if they’re alone) ’cause there’s always creative stuff in their head
– They are often afflicted with typewriter’s cramp
– They can’t take a look at photos without grumbling about yellow teeth
– They always have a car behind them honking like crazy while they unhurriedly analyse the roadside billboards
times new romance!
OMG!!!
All of the list is sooooo….true!!!
so, here we are, weirdo..but it kinda exciting.:)
I didnt know I was predispositioned to do these things. So funny. Can you please write more?!
Boris, Kerstin, a little up added this ones… and there are great!
– They want to retouch everything e.g. if the pattern of the cobblestone is out of alignment they ask for the clone stamp
– If they make mistakes (even) off the job they scream „-Z!“
– They mess up your apartment with sample stuff like paper bags, labels, …
– They also hate word and corel draw
– They unfold any complex cardboard box to analyse how it’s produced
– They are unbeatable in twisting their fingers (4-finger-shortcut)
– They describe colors in cymk – like 100/60/0/75 which is dark blue
– They’re never bored (even if they’re alone) ’cause there’s always creative stuff in their head
– They are often afflicted with typewriter’s cramp
– They can’t take a look at photos without grumbling about yellow teeth
– They always have a car behind them honking like crazy while they unhurriedly analyse the roadside billboards
I posted your list on my facebook page and a friend of mine (also a graphic designer) commented: These are NOT weird habits, these are special effects! :))))))))))
Then he helped me adding some “effects”! 🙂
hahaha!!!
😀
great addition to the list 🙂
I didnt know I was pre-dispositioned to do these things. So funny. Can you please write more?!
Now i know that i am not alone! 🙂
Great stuff!
LOL. . . I like the points, they are true, but I dont think graphic designers are intentional. and many people like graphic designers views in their life. because graphic designers can think different. They are not lay man.
but i loved the feedback from various people.
good work 🙂
hahaha… agreed!!!
I am not alone :p
I really hate comic sans…
HAHAHAH I really love this 😀 I cant decide which number is my favourite 😀
Oh dear. Shall I have to rewrite my blogs? All along I thought everyone else enjoyed scrutinizing the menu design, the wall décor, even the napkin, original floor tiles and signage in restaurants. Now what’s wrong with asking people’s opinions about a design and following what you want anyway? And doesn’t anyone like Miro anymore? Hehehe.
1. They are very weird people.
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
11. They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.
15. They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.
17. They ask your opinion about everything but they do whatever they want.
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
25. Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …
32. On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
36. They listen to music you have never heard of.
44. You will never understand their gifts.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.
47. They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
50. They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.
TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LOLzz hahahahah
all designers have their heads up their arse’s.
Uhm… that is why our “shit” is wonderful?
that is what you mean?
(sarcastic smile…)
That was awesome…
So freaking true on sooo many of them its down right creepy!
Depends on what kind of designer you’re talking about, some points are very true, but I would add…
-They are usually internally laughing about you because of your ignorance and terrible ideas.
-They get mad when they ask for a hi res picture and they get a picture pasted in word.
-They get mad when they ask for a vector logo and they get an animated gif.
-They know that a lot of clients can’t afford their services.
-They’re always surrounded by hot models.
-They get a lot of money from your pocket making stuff that takes 5 minutes or less.
-They can get in a single project, the money you will earn in a year.
OMG! OMG!!!
THESE were absolutely a great addition!!!
2-They get mad when they ask for a hi res picture and they get a picture pasted in word.
OMD!!
:d 😀
2-They get mad when they ask for a hi res picture and they get a picture pasted in word.
I get mad just for reading this 🙂
This is all so good! Glad I’m not alone. Driving across country took me two weeks because I was too distracted by re-designing everyone’s logos/signs/billboards in my head.
maybe its the reason why my girlfriend broke up with me … hehehe its so true! some part of it … hehehe
great post 🙂 keep up the good work
This is fucking ignorant… that is all.
MAybe, Rob, maybe…
But l guess l wont take the comment serious from somebody that includes “7% Awesome dancer” on his resume, and uses “Flexible and “adaptive” to personal descriptions…
I recommend you a tour on CV writing skills..
51. They notice the extra space between “but” and “they” on number 17.
I Just LOVE this! Going on Facebook! The other graphic Designers will get a kick out of this! =)
51. The can’t spell and writing is better left to those who can form a sentence!
As a graphic designer, I thought this would be funnier and more entertaining … Boy, was I wrong.
I think the writer’s ex was a graphic designer.
This pretty much sums it up at my house.
wow this is so accurate. lol
My boyfriend and I are both graphic designers and we are so freaking cool 🙂
graphic designer … It’s a job for Gal and Gay
and what are you doing reading about us?
are you interested in dating whit a gay one?
there you have 50 reasons for not doing.
What kind of work you do as a “macho man”? farmer? sailor? or just neanderthal?
greets.
…. Graphic designer
This is awesome! I’m not a graphic designer, but I’ll think this job will fit me well because with a lot of things it was like: YEAH that’s exactly what I think (comic sans is horrible, lots of menus in restaurants are horrible, apple is lovely and there are more things that are so true). It is that I know what I am going to study next year but when that turns out to be aweful (how do you write that, i’m not a native) ….
out of 50, I’m guilty of 40 and ♥ #31, 35, 38, 41, 46, 47, 48 and 50
lol that is why i studied it… 😉
are you kidding me? this list only makes me wanna date one 😀 geeks FTW!
I love this!!!
I have done GD for over 20 years now and this list pretty much describes me. My bf says I am the coolest dork he’s ever met. He would also add how he has to hide his magazines from me, and that he would like to look at a billboard as just a billboard and not have to discuss layout, colors or fonts. He also wishes he would never hear the term “true black” again.
im a graphic designer and i dont do that
This is brilliant!:DD
Alot of really brutal sentence structure and grammar, but funny.
Let’s not forget that we can spend hours justifying the position of the new art on your walls, but may be less adept at actually putting it up.
everything is true! shit! : ((
YOU ALL ROCK MY WORLD WITH YOUR ANSWERS!!!
Lol. Nice one. 😀
Great to hear, i’m not the only one…nice one!
This is brilliant!!! 🙂 i think i’m 48 out of the 50 mentioned…. totally cracked up while reading it. 🙂
HAHAHAHA! I’ve seen/owned so many stolen street-signs!
ROFL! XD I totally just sent this link to my boyfriend, too.
A lot of these are scarily accurate.
Haha great article
47 Could apply to web designers as well, but substitute CMYK and RGB with CSS and PHP (although color hexes somewhat cover the RGB, as well.)
Nice list! Terrifyingly accurate.
Huahahaa…. Agree no more!!
No gonna lie. I definitely eat weird foods because of pretty packaging ;p
And have hidden many cuts on tables from my husband with furniture pens
Oh my goooooodness! LOVE this! Very true. xo
#51. They spell/grammar check everything. And this article is a poor example of both.
So true.. And my head started to hurt from reading that.
#52. Laugh (hard) of those ones believing a graphic designer *is* a copywriter (or vice versa).
#53. Offer Advil for those ones who get unnecessary headaches.
haha i actually fit into some of those, even the one about picking apart menu designs secretly, but i hate apple
Missing: They need five pages brief to perform a simple task.
You should do one on copywriters and you can start it by having them read and crit this one..
You should do one on copywriters and you can start it by having them read and crit this one.. It is funny though. **
Well… cant say those habit are all bad beside few of the list, haha many ppl try to act one of them though they arent a designer, but wannabe a designer to blend into the awesome lifestyle. 😀
I am an architect, but find myself in 99% of this. So funny! AND TRUE :DDD
true, most of it
Seriously, its 85% of my life!
Haha, so true, especially the bit about secretly critiquing the menu design!
Lol this is so true, I’m a designer too and I went down the list thinking yep to all of them. 44. You will never understand their gifts. no one ever “gets” my gifts that I spend weeks thinking about.. grr. 14. They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters, I suck at maths! haha loves it!
kirsten.. you are soooo right on that
Dang! You hit me hard!!! Aow!! 😀
Still a lot not included..please refine ur search
cause life is full of colour..inclueds as ur undies..like Persian rose, Aureolin, Candy apple red, Persimmon..so check it out
( a designer)..
true that life is full of zackjords, but my undies are still *just* white or black… A little colour-blind there!
:))
51. They copy paste this article to theyr Graphic Designer friends and Laugh
theeeeere you go!!
😀
Ha ha, I am lucky, my man is a graphic designer as I am.
And yes, we do and love a lot of those things mentioned!
Great post.
Thanks, Monika.. and welcome!
There is reason that are so much me … It’s so true ! xD
Wow! So many stereotypes. I could offer a retort, but I think your mind is made up and it would be a wasted effort. I hope over time you’ll come to more understanding of what you’ve written.
Welcome Bill,
you speak about stereotypes as if it was a bad thing, but if you really think about aren´t we all, in a way or another? 🙂
Is not that my mind is “decided” on this, is that “I AM” this; l am a designer, l am weird as shit and most important, l am extremely proud of it – with all the good, the bad, the freaky that it contains.
So not only l am understanding of what l have written, but l embrace it fondly and proudly (and for what it seems, by the several thousands clicks in this post, quite a bunch are as proud as l am)
I see. Well, I am a designer as well and would appreciate not being labeled or fit into someone else’s box–something I see stereotypes used far more frequently for than for any useful understanding.
Dear Billelgato: LIFE is full stereotypes, and everybody falls into one or another at some point.
This is a humorous way to see things -and since is personal, there is no offense intended- because l am able to make fun of myself. If you are not able to so the same, I will be more that happy to do it for you 😀
well said.
some of these are so on point! but wow, there are some many just ridiculous add ins to make it to 50. i i think some of these are very “trendy” designer queues. Not to be a super stickler because I know it’s all for fun but why not not be like – they have their own wireless mouse pouch, or they have a small pillow on the middle of their desk so when they need to make a dealdline they can still get a couple winks, or they want to barrow your fashions magazine strictly for the ads and explain how the font really made the apparel jump from the page, or they tell you to keep quiet while that new dos equis commercial (cinematography!) comes on, or they find new ways to create art out of everything they touch – like the straw wrapper… everyone’s straw wrapper at the table, or how about they have a glutinous fame addiction and hop out on highways to put their name up? or look at a book and think of which of the three design theories this book’s layout was formed from… or is it a combination of all three? or are they working in grids? what’s the algorithm for the grid? who what’s to have some shots and talk about the golden triangle? on the flip side, my interactions with people never are this coy even thought it is great to think of the possibilities
well, there is a difference on being *creative*, not *ridiculous*, but again, this comes with the ability to make fun of oneself 😀
Very, very good points, BTW, nomph – you are right on the spot on the grid layout.. l see (nearly) everything on a 3-column grid!
They can tell if something’s a millimeter off alignment.
and… there is something wrong with all those things? I am certainly not a graphic designer but working on a doctorate in research psychology and I am guilty of many of the above… and so are most of my dates and none have then have been graphic designers.
Then you are all closet designers.
@Ferhaus and @ Teri…welcome!
weirdness can well be applied to many aspects in life..
I am glad for that 😀
So true! Did you have a bad experience with a graphic designer. Partcularly liked n°17
no Saintamen… l *am* a graphic designer!
hahaha! 😀
hi,
i’m a graphic designer
click “like this” on http://www.highdesignstudio.be
if you like my photography !
x
l am really impressed with your portfolio, Johathan… awesome photography you have there..
“African fishermen”… favorite! 😀
34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
Like absolute positioning, relative positioning, float left…
You forgot about WE LOVE CATSSSSSSSSSSS!!
pictures that is…
he he he..
thank you for sharing this ! I am thai graphic designer and this is so damn true ! i translated to Thai language for my friend and they loved it , cannot stop laughing !
And here, after all these years, I thought it was just me. Nice to know I’m not alone out here.
I feel naked after reading this list 😀
19, 40 , 43 and 47 give me LIFE and I am a photog, not a graphic designer. Hilarious post.
funny stuff. Could use some spelling/grammar updates tho…
I’m so glad that I am the best graphic designer in the industry and I do none of these things.
c’mon.
Dude, good for you!
(pitty you seym to be missing most of the fun)
….. so funny list…. so true too !
I plead guilty your honor
walter (France)
41. The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
i remeber this. 2005, i did get an orgasm.
I must be unique because over 40 of those are untrue about me, and I am a graphic designer LOL.
It’s not that we HATE each other. It’s a competitive field. So we just automatically don’t like each other D;
I love this and yes this practically describes me to a tee :o)
I don’t hate anyone, if they have great designs I love it and even if the designs are not that great I just look at them to see how they can become great 🙂
This list is way off… I use an Android.
Please proofread anything you post before publishing it – this is rife with errors.
Welcome Luke,
things is… i get so excited when i write or play with my crayons…
But I do remember clearly that a Designer or an Art Director is NOT a proofreader -nor a copy editor or a copywriter….
The title of this post should have been ’50 reasons not to date a low IQ graphic designer’.
You are right, Claire… we are all a bunch of retards!
😀 :
perhaps, you might want to consider a change of career.
NEVER, Claire!
I am pretty dam proud of who l am and what l am (with all the good, and all the bad -and a good dose of sarcasm also)
🙂
maybe you should consider learning how to use grammar properly because half of this list is too poorly written to read
I know!
I am sorryI am such a disaster, mrscriblam 😦 It is not easy to tackle 4 languages daily and I even more get all confused when I type really fast with just two fingers (maybe if I typed with 4 or 5…)😀
PS: BTW, maybe these rules you could apply to your own crummy blog, because last I remember,
1.- the correct placement for adverbs is in between subject and predicate, not at the end of a sentence:
“hi my name is jacob breck and i write comics sometimes.”
2.- You don’t ”make a blog where i post comics”; you write a blog.
3.- You should use the same verbal tense “people kept telling me that i need to get a blog
4.- i as in “me” should capitalize (but that l get it, it is a statement)
5.- Maybe it is a good idea to let your readers catch a breath on a sentence that contains 47 words with more that one punctuation mark:
“one day i might make a blog where i whine about the harsh realities of having no really unique problems and the audacity to complain about the ones i have, but until then i hope people will love me for the entertainment value of my bad comics.”
We all know how to be Mr. Goodiepants, right?
#preach “They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.”
Luv this list! not all of them pertain to me, but i can totally identify. i suppose that’s in part to the fact that i haven’t dove deep into my graphic designer self yet. only a matter of time.
Hi Amber,
patience.. it will come! 😀 😀
No depression and anxiety?
no so far… 😛
i like many of those things. i dated a designer and i learned a lot of things from her
he he he 😀 😀
What’s the bad part of all of this? XD
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Dear Silvia,
Do you have learning a second language?
Like French, German or maybe Chinese?
Coz, Taiwanese Graphic Designer around me, they don’t speak English…
Maybe they have no time to learn?
Maybe they love to ‘look’ other cultures (words), but hate to spell?
I know your post, from the site that translate in Chinese, but you know what?
Not translated well… But I feel better when I saw the real language.
OK, I can spell all the words, becoz i used Google Translate…
I do not shy…
At least I want to know you, learn you, proud of you.
Thanks, have a great day ^^
Sincerely,
Sylvia @ Jakarta
thats so me :)) and im a graphic designer myself 😛
I am a graphic designer. and I do know more positions than the Kamasutra. 😀
and i love helvetica for sure. this list is nearly perfect!
somehow i see more ups than downs in this list ;D
Superb blog! Do you have any hints for aspiring writers? I’m hoping to start my own website soon but I’m a little lost on everything. Would you recommend starting with a free platform like WordPress or go for a paid option? There are so many options out there that I’m totally confused .. Any tips? Appreciate it!
I’m a blogger and graphic designer but I don’t understand why do you say designers see museums as their second home. Than I’d rather spend my money on a nice gift than on a font, I don’t buy my outfits by the Pantone rules and i hate iPhones. Plus there are many rules out there that I don’t see myself in.
Welcome, Laurentiu
We are no stickers, my dear – therefore, we are all different from each other.
This post is meant on a subjective matter because it is *my* impression on this profession – that doesn’t mean we are *all* the same.
😀
good thing my girlfriend didn’t read this first… almost spot on
Add the negatives..?
They can’t edit. Apparently.
that os because we are *not* editors, Graham 😀 (at least l am not and l know!)
51. They contribute slightly more to the world than bloggers.
52. You will have your cervix pried open but their unruly cocks.
So radical you are, Luke!
That’s the reason why i’m being single for a long long time.. LOL!
This is too funny. I love 35. “They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.”
SO GOOD. AND SO TRUE.
LOOOOOOOOOL hilarious ! Thats true
I feel more real after reading this article, I am not the only one!
LOVE IT
Thansk, Sammie 😀
“They hate Powerpoint.” should replace #28! 🙂
replace it?
why not add it? 😀
AH MY HAT!!!!!
I dated a GD for two and a half years…she tought me so much about Macs and nothing about anything else…:D!!!
And now I have two really aweosme close friends who are both GD’s and both girls relate to this post is=n so many ways!!!
I LOVE GD’S…:D!!!!! You lot make my life so interesting!!! Stole my first sign over easter with a GD…:D!!! and some guys rusts mat…Oo…you people steal anything really…:D
😀
welcome, Robbyn
l think we do, have that effect on other people! he he he
Hahaha…Well I wouldn’t change that for the universe…:D!!!
Ok wait…the universe…maybe I can replace GD for that…Oo…after all…They all think I’m the weird one studying biotech and AI…:D
jajaajjjajajaja
benvenida TomoeNoe
Yo como tu, también me caí del catre… mas de una vez y a creo que de cabeza! 😀
Also, they’re all faggots.
@WAT:
You’re an ass…><…
oh yeah, sister… we love out rainbows….
right, Robbyn?
😀
Completely True…:D
fuck yeah motha fuckas.
You have the lexical prowess of a dyslexic downs syndrome child.
Ooohh… that’s what they call it? uhmm… ok, then! l would have never known, with those fancy words of yours. Either way, even from your picture l would have not known either if you are a boy or a girl (sorry, you don’t qualify as *man* or *woman*, so there is my dyslexic side… A side you match very well when l read your tweets or your answers on Formspring (f.e. “9 times out of 10 i use the seperate toilet ): urinals suck. actually they dont, that’s actually one of the reasons they’re so crap. those toilet cubicles with the hole in the wall DO suck. i like those.”)
…
WOW, darling Julian… For a moment, there was so much sarcasm spinning in my head l just had to restart my brain.
PS: either way, on the *serious* side… a bit disrespectful you are with downs syndrome’ people, unless… wait.. unless you are one of
themus, and you meant this comment as a *positive* comment… Ahh.. there goes my dyslexia again…OOOOH!!!!
You’re on twitter…??? Must be interesting to read!!! And Formspring…???
Give me links!!! Lolz…:P
Urinals do suck…but the new ones at my vasity are really neat!!! So I don’t mind them…it’s the public ones outside the science faculty I hate!!! (Sorry side note there…:P…)
No Robbyn, l am not in Twitter anymore. At some point reality kicked my ass and l decided to leave my nearly 1000 followers to focus a bit more on my real-life happenings. A high-profile job and raising 2 kids alone will do that to you, l guess.
So no, l am not there, but l am a geek and l l love gossip, and l needed to know what this Julian-idiot was all about… Needless to say, by the 7th second l was bored to death…
😀
HAHAHA!!!!
Well glad you came back to life…:P
I didn’t pay much attention to the text…some people just like to post crap…Oo…lolz!!!
Yeah…I have one kid…she’s 3…and already she’s a mission…full time student and my little girl (single dad btw)…there’s someting wrong with me…Oo…:D!!!
I just realised I already posted to this comment…oo…damn…><…i must be going crazy!!!
Julian Melvyn Jones has a beef with Graphic Designers. http://twitter.com/#!/Joofl – and – (and this is a wild guess) – already unemployed.
he he he…
ROFL!!! Some people just can’t handle the graphic world…:P
Ah ok…yeah I have one little girl and she’s a fulltime mission…I can’t imagine having a second rascal running around and still having to study…Oo…
Lots of respect!!!
49 of the points are me 😛
ha!
I, like you, am to blame for that guilty pleasure (because it *is*, a pleasure 😀
welcome, PhoeniX Rise
:D!!!
So…I’ve somehow become…uh…an agent I gues…been setting up meetings and projects for my two personal designers…although I’m not a designer myself…goin to look for more jobs for them…lolz
(These girls drive me insane though…Oo…that or I’m already nuts for knowing them…:D – no complaints)
Welcome Phoenix!!!
Ok, that you have to explain… an “agent”? Spill the beans 😀
Hahaha…I’m an agent for danger…;) (uh…yeah…I’m not crazy I swear…the voices in my head agree…:D…) but if I did tell you, I might have to fly up and assassinate you…:P
I’m promoting two of my freinds as a team to do graphic work on local bands…like posters and album covers…it’s new…but going great so far…loving it… 😀 !!!
Going to find more work for them soon and who knows…if it kicks off I’ll have a miini business… 😀 I just love how retarded some clients really are…Oo…HAHAHA!!!
AAAA HA HAHAH!! 😛
hehehe that’s all true, we’re all insane 😀
Insane? No way! ,me and all my voices refuse to admit that!
ha ha ha 😛
HAHHAHAHAH true ^_^ but the math part is not 😛 I teach math ^_^
😛
l actually like math.. the problem is actually my math dyslexia (not kidding)
🙂
hahahhaha they are so damn true…
i found this on my “special man”s facebook page
oh yeah hes graphic designer just like me…and i like him lol (gay)
this is the second time i like a person who same with me(a graphic Designer)
1. They are very weird people. – me and my brother are the only graphic designer in our fam..
and yes we are the weird ones in our fam…lol
3. They will analyse conversations in layers. – oh yeah definitely true!
can i repost this??on my blog?
welcome ndutbear,
I am glad you liked it. Of course you can put it on your blog – just make a Hyperlink on the copy or a ping back.
My parents still get “blank” when some friends ask “what is an Art Director”… “she loves her MAC more than her kids…” they answer.
Go figure!
😀
Actually, in reference to #2; there are only 3 colors in the screen of a computer.
-Much love, from a fellow designer 😉
he he…
I just like to think *big*, sp
😀
This made me laugh so hard I cried. But I think some of those tears were because just too many were relevant to me.
we are a few, Sarah… for the good or for the bad! he he!
😀
Will surely be a wonderful embodiment of the fantasy becomes reality
okeeeei…
whatever that does mean…
Obviously a graphic designer wrote this because they forgot reason 51, their grammar and spelling are total shit. Despite all these reasons, I’m happier with my Graphic Design-major wife, Echo, than I have ever been in my entire life prior. =]
Welcome Stuart!
First of all l must say congrats with having a great woman next to you (cool name btw), not because she is a designer, but because she makes you happy – quite difficult these days…
That said, gotta tell you that l am pretty sick and tired of having to excuse myself every time with this, as you say, shit: A graphic designer is NOT a copywriter!, so in a way, we can get away with this shit, because we TEAM with them…
Got it? Besides, what is the point to “peek and point” and miss all the fun?
And btw, it ain’t easy to juggle 4 languages (eyes, you read right, four) every single fucking day at the same time, buddy.
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35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.—–> GUILTY! :))
esto aplica a todos los diseñadores… me siento identificada y soy diseñadora industrialll!!! 🙂
Ves, Aida? reglas generales 🙂
je je
Pfft at least we can spell and use correct grammar.
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46. You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming “When is the deadline?”
LOLOL. This haunts me even during school breaks.
And it will last forever, Maya 😦
Haha gureat post Thanks for making this louder that we GDs are out of the world beings which we are!
But hey I can add and subtract. I happen to be a designer who graduated in math. Don’t even ask me how I jumped over the wall to get through that one.
I absolutely loved it !!
This list is way off for me, but I wasn’t part of the cool graphic designer click in college. I can see most of those people adhering to this list pretty well. I am weird though, I’ll give you that.
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
Yeah.., it’s true.., hahahahaha
Funny read, contradicting statements, most of them are actually positive things, an obscene amount of unhealthy generalization… do I sense frustration over someone or over your own person as someone working in this industry as art director? Either way, very incorrect thought out arguments.
Easy up, Lucy. My arguments are correct as they apply to *me*.
Frustration?
Nope. Simply the ability to laugh at myself.
Hahha! Made me laugh because they are true =p
Fix your spelling mistakes…
I will fired my copywriter – since you know, an art director is *not* a copywriter…
All great strong points, the one about the menu design definitely true. And the deadlines… awful!
46. You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming “When is the deadline?”
Currently in school for graphic design…and I’m already screaming this in the middle of the night or subconsciously out loud during the day…
GREAT LIST!
Thanks, Allo…
And the nightmares will continue… for ever!
lol
😛
Everything seems true, except we copy check everything as we read. And this list has some serious punctuation / spelling / sentence forming / other errors.
Damn it! 😦
l will fire my copywriter immediately!
😛
Hahaha, Okay I was thoroughly amused by this post and I nagged all my friends into reading it, and they laughed too btw.
I’m just going to go ahead and say thank you, for not ripping me into shreds like you did with the rest of the unnecessarily rude comments :p
And I hate Comic Sans with a passion. Wtf kind of a font is that anyway?
Also, I was very convinced that my poster changed the world 😦
Have a nice day 🙂
😀
How boring is life if we don’t use a bit of humour, right?
…Well, that doesn’t count for some “special” days of the month, where is all about “pure destruction”, but … yaknowwahtlmean… 🙂
BTW, I am incredibly curious about this poster of yours, Spooner 😛
Lol, let’s leave Scarlet Pimpernel out of this:p He can be a real bitch :p :p
HAH, you do your homework 😀
I love the stuff you have written. Makes a Monday less mundane.
LOL…. so funny
😛
no generalisations at all then. what a retarded list.
Roger, dont insult the retarded or i will tell your mother…
(and you still read the list and comment on it) LOL
1 reason not to date the author of this… very poor grammar.
Maybe! but thing is, Leslie, I am fucking fabulous in bed, and that, beats the hell out of rock-paper-scissors all together.
Very funny…. but the kerning needs work.
Welcome, David,
yeap, the kerning needs work, but so does my bathroom, and so far both are good enough.
😛
This person obviously has a personal grudge. Probably because she was scolded when she didn’t understand the proper term is flush left, not left justified. (#18)
But some of this is funny, and kinda true. Especially 5, 7 (I annoy many friends with this), 15, 19, 21, 28, 35, 38 (Semiotics, yes, but stories of children?), 39, 41, 45, 47, 48
Lisa:
1 – you can absolutely use both flush and justified -wikipedia
2 – no, l don’t have any grudge, l FUCKING HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOT AND I AM ABLE TO LAUGH AT MYSELF AND MY WEIRD SHIT.
l am beginning to be so sorry for some of you people…
by the number of comments to this post Yes in deed there are BILLIONS of us!!! LOL
Are you one of “us”, dragon boy?
then… welcome! 😀
Yesh I am one of you???
and younger version but still learning most of what you guys are…
to the point where some of these are true!! LOL 🙂
Awesome!
I can tell you that despite the tough deadline, the sleepless nights, the sarcasm and the ups and downs… you are up for a wonderful ride.
Good luck, dragon boy 😀
There are some fascinating deadlines on this article but I don?t know if I see all of them heart to heart. There is some validity however I will take maintain opinion until I look into it further. Good article , thanks and we would like more! Added to FeedBurner as nicely
spam is getting fancier and fancier, Cinthia (or should l say Lazaro?)
This is true in so many ways. My friend and i, that are both graphic designers find all you write so unbelievably familiar. We do all these things! Great article. Can’t stop smiling.
Everywhere in the world, graphic designers are the same, weird people.
Love to be that 😛
70% True!
“They steal signs!”
hahahahah omg I cant believe this, I have like 15 stolen signs… really… and Im a graphic designer… thats scary…
…Can pick out a stock photo anywhere
…Know what a stock photo is
…Scoff at people who believe any photo in a beauty magazine is “real”
…Know the difference between font and typeface
Man, nail on the head with this one! Love it – it’s me pretty much all the way.
LOL! You made my day a lot brighter. Thank you!
Most of them are true in my case… allthough I don’t like the emphasis on Apple products. Still many graphical designers like to use PC more than Mac. It’s an endless discussion which is best and I do not want to start it here… but I – and many of my collegues – personally prefer to use pc (mostly Lenovo TP’s or Dells) for graphical work.
I recommend spell check and proofreading.
l recommend chicken with potatoes, but be careful because the sauce contains peanuts…
THANK YOU! I mean really. If you want to look like you have more than two cotton balls for brains, learn to spell!
17. They ask your opinion about everything but they do whatever they want.
Fuck yeah!
he he:)
Most of these seem like good things too me, but then again, I’m a graphic artist.
This sounds more like the kind of annoying people who give graphic designers a bad reputation. Meaning: the kind of designers (mostly students) who think posters can save the world, but end up doing editing photos and kerning type their entire career hoping one day they can make money from their “artwork” and quit their design job like they originally planned before they wasted money on a design degree.
dude that hurts!!!! for shame!
Well then stop calling yourself a “designer” if you’re just a production artist with a design degree.
Dear Jacob:
1.- gotta give you credit just for knowing the difference between a graphic artist and a graphic designer. l don’t have any degree* on any of those ones. l think. l got my degree from a Taiwanese school, but l don’t understand what is say, so l may have a degree in plumbing for what l know 😦
2.- This is supposed to be funny, Jacob, a way to laugh of ourselves. l love my work, and l love my job… and more, l love to find the less appealing things and turn them into fun. l would suggest to take a Sharpie out from your ass (or in, whatever works for you) and get some sense of humour.
* http://silviarodo.com/silviarodo.com/-_WORK_HISTORY_-.html
51. you will always come second place…. after their macbook
amen to that, def 😀
laughed my ass off.
big ups from germany.
every one complaining about it, is not really living grafik-design.
a photographer friend of mine just sent me this 🙂 love it, so true.. i can relate to most of them 😉
very sad there are a view of us who can’t laugh about themselves..
Wow. Wow! Just came across this and i have to say I laughed. I cried. I craughed?
“35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.” – I am guilty of this moreso than anything else on this list! Help me!
This made me chuckle.
#2 – not true, for there are only 16777215 colors shown on the screen.
#3 – only true for hipster designers.
#4 – only true because graphic designers are too poor to afford good furniture.
#5 – only true for hipster designers. the others try to get healthy food.
#7 – only true for nerds.(and if the credits are nicely animated)
#8 – wtf are you talking about?
#9 – only true for hipster designers.
#10 – only true for housewives 45+
#11 – there are calculators, genuis.
#15 – only true for hipster designers.
#16 – only true for hipster design students(the cutting.).
#27 – only true for hipster designers.
#28 – who does not?
#30 – must be a good poster.
#39 – only true for the new generation of stupidity.
#40 – only true for hipster designers.
#41 – ha, no. it meant freehand died.
#43 – only true for hipster designers. the other graphic designers are too poor to afford that shit. are are too witty and buy better stuff.
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Hell yeah, and when you want them to read love letters or newspaper articles, they tell you what they hate about the layout and typography. 😀
I can relate to all of this, except for the doll-part. XD
looooooooooooots in common, the best post EVER !!! :’D
I hate apple!
Helvetica sucks and Comic-Satan too!
Word! I’m still laughing!
18 Reasons to fall for graphic designers so quickly!
1- They are unique
2- They never bring you a casual gift. It’s always have to be designed somehow by something they did
3- They are always hyper and active
4- You have never expectations from them. always having something new
5- You’re never bored when they’re around
6- They bring everything into life
7- They see life in their own perspective
8- They like every detail to be designed somehow even a small cup of tea
9- They don’t act. Really spontaneous people
10- They like it simple and stupid
11- When there’s a beautiful sunset they try all the corners to have the best photo and they’ll shock you with the results
12- They can’t pass by your life without leaving a mark
13- They have their own philosophy about life
14- They hate routine
15- Kill the but don’t tell them you have to work in a 4 walls room!!
16- THEY ARE THE REASON WHY WE HAVE THAT MUCH FUN EVERYWHERE WE GO
17- THEY DESIGN OUR LIVES WITH THEIR CREATIVITY
18- GRAPHIC DESIGNERS WE ROCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If i wanna continue i won’t stop so there you go! It’s hard not to love us
they forgot the most important one, YOU WILL BE POOR
So?
Well, I did fucked up my window with the cutter, but not all the points apply to me. Maybe I’m not a true graphic designer… 🙂
That’s why graphic designers should date graphic designers 🙂 My husband and I enjoy doing number five together lol
:D…i like it
HaHa. This is so true. I’m a designer and I showed this to my wife and she found it hysterical.
thanks for the post it brought a smile to my face.
I guesss I am not a graphic artist then… especially seeing as how I HATE apple and macintrashes!
(But they pay me lots to fake it =p)
I didn’t know I was so terrible! geez…
Grammatically speaking, this post is erroneously misleading…too many mistakes to ponder. (Says OCD inflicted graphic designer)
51. They know how to proofread or pay someone to do it – and they think you should do it too.
😉
What an original comment, Casper.
You really nailed it!
😉
Nice list, but why is it so badly written?
Love this list. One of my habits is that when I hang out with friends in coffee shops, I would take out my Sharpie and draw on my paper cup while my noisy friends would be quiet for a moment just to watch me. 🙂
3. They will analyse conversations in layers.
yes because every word has a meaning and its important!
actually I decided not to put all the list that I think relates to me because its more that 70%
so yea for we all understand eachother!
but Im not a mac lover hahaha I wont be fooled id rather buy it for a glamour shoes 🙂
With your list you inspired me for a school project. I was wondering if you were ok with it. I only use 9 reasons on my poster. If you like, I will send to you when it will be finish ^^
Kerstin & Cybelle great lists too !!!
PM, Citylove 😀
1. INDEED!
Love it, so true!
You wouldn’t date someone because they hate Excel…?
they use Double-Sided Tape for everything
lol 😛
haha isn’t it good to see things different?
The tone makes it not funny.
12. You never know if it is really an original or a copy. (hahah how true)
13. They make collages with your photos. (lau na that’s cute ni.. that’s the reason why u got to date a graphic designer.. LOL)
ThE fact you’re so arrogant you think people would WANT to copy paste this drivel astounds me. A vulgar display of unrestrained wankery. You are not as important as you believe yourself to be.
You may take Google out of your ass and see for yourself. Don’t you worry, I will be happy to stick it back again. And is not a matter of being arrogant, you idiot -look who´s using “big boys words”
Scarily true on some of these but I am concerned about the grammar and spelling that makes some of these completely incomprehensible.
Dear allison,
i am not (concerned) – we do have copywriters to do magic with the grammar. l suck with that, l know, but is ok – they make sense to me, and that’s what counts
🙂 🙂
If I cut and paste this but change the title by dropping the word ‘not’ do you still want me to credit you?
ABSOLUTELY!
thing is, Bret, in my world these are, actually, reasons to date one of us, designers, with all out oddities..
Have fun!
🙂
WHy would anyone steal this?
They will issue violent threats to anyone who even thinks about infringing on their Intellectual Property, but all the music on their iTunes was downloaded from Napster, Limewire, or Torrent.
no mee… my iTunes is ALL paid :))
This was a cute list (albeit full of poor grammar)… until you put the warning on it.
Newsflash: everything on the internet is public domain. I know, shocking! And while I know that the idea of making a “50 reasons…” list is novel, I would find it hard to believe that every reason on that list is 100% original.
So you might want to, you know, get off the high horse and fix some of the embarrassing grammar errors instead of making excuses for them. And it’s not nice to threaten people. 🙂
Dear Dee, the “50 reasons…” list is as old as a list of 50 reasons…bla bla, bla, but those things are a result of observation of the dumb things me and other designers and friends do on our everyday life. Some are general, some very specific, mostly funny -at least to us. When you mess up one of your stitches, it will mess up your scarf, or sweater; you have to go back end fix it. We (some, at least) have always great copywriters to “clean” our concepts and ideas and all the grammar, for example.
This post has been around the world, Dee, and i could had fixed the grammar a loooong time ago. i didn’t, because being a little “scruffy” is part of who l am. l know, l accept myself with all my good an bad things -no excuses.
Imagine if somebody took a pic of that carpet that took you a million years to make, and made it their own, and took credit for it: Dee, you would be pissed also.
BTW: the carpet is awesome.
Sil, I fully understand you not wanting to have your work, or at least your compilation, passed off as somebody else’s. And wouldn’t blame you for putting a note on there saying “hey, feel free to share it, but I would appreciate it if you linked back/gave me credit”. Toooootally understand.
My point was more on the tone of your note… what was once a quirky quaint post that I liked enough to bookmark became a hostile threat akin to a territorial pissing contest. Combine that with a long stressful week and I was probably driven to comment on something I would have normally just shrugged and rolled my eyes at.
My guess is that upon seeing your original note, more people would be much less inclined to link back than if it was stated nicely. But I noticed you changed it. As they say, you trap more flies with honey than with vinegar.
And there is nothing wrong with being a bit scruffy, but then again working with editors has probably made me a bit of a stickler for grammar. Just hate doing another round of changes just because I misspelled a copy patch.
Anyway, it’s late, I’m dropping stitches and well I hate having imperfect sweaters. Thanks for the compliment, it’s actually a throw blanket. I’m pretty proud of it. 🙂
LMAO. it appears that graphic designers and photographers have a few things in common….
THIS. IS. AWESOME.
Thanks, Alyssa.
Welcome here 🙂
Well done! Well done! xD
Thank you! one of my favorites, Angelica, has made a fantastic one also!
http://onmotherhoodandsanity.blogspot.com/2012/04/52-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-date-aid.html
Seem as if you have been watching me… Great list… good for laughs anyway anytime…
I laughed so hard.
So many things in common
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.1
1. They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.14. They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.
16. They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.
17. They ask your opinion about everything but they do whatever they want.
20. They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
42. They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.
43. They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store
Good thing I wanna be a graphic designer or this would be really weird o.o
I HAVE to put this on my blog. (giving credit back here of course) Just to warn people about dating myself.
Haha. Nice post.
so, can anyone explain why #34. “They know more positions than the Kamasutra.” is a reason NOT to date anyone?
You can also marry them! 😀
Thnx….true 😉
http://lewismccaine.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/50-razones-para-no-salir-con-un-disenador-grafico someone translated it to spanish, i didn’t see any reference link to your post so here i am letting you know 😉
Gracias, Juan…
que cabron, el tio, no tiene integridad como persona o como designer…
This is great! My hubby laughed so hard and said that pretty much sums up my wife. =)
HOla soy diseñador grafico, y aunq me rio de casi todo, porq son ciertas, no creo q sean razones para no salir con nosotros , somos nenos divertidos =)
Mucho love!!
Pero Magenta, si es pura ironia!!! yo también lo soy, y tengo tantas cosas raras que me hacen (como a los deja) especial!!! humor, hay que tener humor 😀 😀
TRUE
silvia im a dg from colombia, can i make a translate to spanish and post it on my brand new blog? giving you credit ofcors! plz plz plz….
Pues claro que si!!!!
Gracias y me alegro de que te gustara!
this is dumb, senseless and not even funny.
jada, jada, jada….
(yawn of pure boredom….)
Yeah. CAN IT, Jineen. This is pure genius.
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THIS made my day. Lol ^.^
Am I the only one who is looking at the cover of a magazine trying to figure out how much photoshop the girl on the cover has?
I did the all layout for the translation of a book and I totaly hated the translator for send me the text in word. My computer was brand new and I had to poison it with that program
Also, when looking at friend’s pictures on facebook I’m constantly thinking of doing some degree of color correction or something to their pictures, hehehe.
Sorry for my english
And you didn’t keep him?
Oh god…. its true
True true true! We Work #24/7
haha love this list!
The first one definite deserves the number one spot.
We still rock though ❤ 😀
ABSOLUTELY, WE ROCK! 😀
I love this. It would make a great illustrated booklet , Can I use it .? I would be happy to credit you as the source 🙂
Absolutely, martin 🙂
ha ha… so funny but true. World need this type of people 🙂
Reblogged this on Jasmine Grewal and commented:
A good laugh in the middle of a work day. Some of these points are an incentive to date a graphic designer. 🙂
This made me laugh…I’ll be sure to steer clear…lol.
very funny and a great inside…. i am developing a design magazine, would you like to contribute as a writer, or as a designer…. ????
I’m a graphic designer myself. I read this, and it’s great, ’cause most of this things are really fitting to myself.
But I don’t think this are reasons to not date us. Because although everything of this list is true, in the end we make good design. And good design can change the world and it influences her everyday. And really everything is design. I think this are all reasons to date us too.
Absolutely, Manuel! all those things ARE the reason to date us… Good to make fun also 🙂
If you can’t laugh about yourself, who can you laugh about?
By the way, great list, if I haven’t said yet.. 😉
Genial.
They will ridicule your terrible grammar.
And l, as an AD, l won´t care… first because there is an irony on that, sand second because it makes the point that, once again, designers are NOT copywriters.
This refer to true graphic designer, not the aged commercial graphic designer.
They would rather analyze the Coke can redesign than talk to their friends while out for lunch.
They are often the kind of people that critique grammatical errors in blog posts (just saying).
😀 Some things are intentionally done to create controversy, and those who choose to see *only* that… well… 😀 again
I thought it was a very clever and funny post that I could easily relate to. However, the grammar left a lot to be desired and I was not the only person to comment on it. There are a lot of journalists who are also interested in graphic design and they are sticklers for stuff that no one else notices, let alone the obvious.
But l am NOT a journalist, NOT a copywriter, NOT a production artist.
Don’t you think there is an “intentionality” in all? Don´t you think that l could had easily corrected the grammar the very first moment and be done with it?
As a blogger, if wanting controversy and feedback -is not only what we write, but HOW we write it…
As they say, even negative advertising is good advertising.
🙂
I understand that and just mentioned it as something to keep in mind for the future.
some kind of true
it´s all about fun, schnoocke… clean, plain fun 😀
God summer to you all!
We also fuck like rock stars.
Hell yeah! :))
The person that wrote this clearly loves graphic designers
Thank, P… you are absolutely right :))
This is silly…sounds like you were just dumped by someone who was a graphic designer and are bitter about their personal habits…a lot of which don’t apply to all designers.
AAAAHHH For fucking God´s sakes… I AM A GRAPHIC DESIGNER, you dumb cow!!!
Are you able to read some more, you will see it!
This is a parody of *my* vision of who l am!
Jeeezz… you people…
I’ve been a designer for nearly 15 years. Here’s what I found true on this list:
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
50. They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.
I think you dated a psycho, who just happened to be a designer…… Great post!
in the background we are the more cool and interesting alternative to a date
Michel, you are absolutely right! 😛
Are you sure you didn’t mean “hipster self-proclaimed typography design guru” or “the girl who thinks she is a craft artist and a designer but hasn’t been able to sell a single design for more than $15, except to her relatives, because it had the family cat in it”?
some of this is true but all of it…
Command Z!
Oh come on. I’ve been a graphic designer for 25 years, and I can tell you that only about half of these are true! Ok… well most of them. But isn’t that what makes us so endearing? (Don’t ask my wife)
OMG I am laughing so hard out loud freaking hilarious
It’s all mostly true, aside from most of us actually do like MS Excel for organizing things like budgets and invoicing. We actually don’t want to spend all the money in the Apple Store so much as in Best Buy, its the nerds version of Walmart complete with Junk Food after all…
Hey, l am all up for Wallmart and Best Buy… Even Costco, here and there. As per excel… l rather use numbers so l dont need to restart the machine all the time 😉
sooo me 😀
Loving number five!!!
l had a bad experience with that this summer… l´d say sometimes you win, sometimes you loose! hahaha!
As a graphic designer, the majority of this was extremely insulting and even more of it wasn’t true (at least in my case). Ok, so you most likely dated a graphic designer and this is how things turned out in the long run, but you should understand that his occupation being a designer has little to do with what you listed, and its simply a true fact that this was HIS OWN personality. They seemed like a jerk who ignored you and revolved their life around their work. Not everyone is that way, so you shouldn’t label people based on their job but instead on who and how they are themselves.
Dear John:
l am so sorry you feel this insulting -it was not meant to insult anybody, on the contrary, it was meant to amuse and show a quality many of *us*, designers, have to laugh at ourselves: humor.
Apparently, humor seems to have disappear somewhere up your ass.
l am a designer, and this is a proof that, despite our *world* can be stressful and too much sometimes, l can see the humorous side on all those *wacky* things.
Why do l bother explaining the same thing over and over?
This was really enjoyable to read! Not sure how I ended up here from marketing statistics but am glad I did at 1am 😀
Oh, and I’m very affectionate towards #9.
LOL!
HOW CAN U NOT TO USE PANTONE BOOK WHEN YOU GET DRESS? 😛
Agree! hahaha!
Damn near scared the heebeejeebies outta me… who told you about me? STALKER!!!
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thats all …..so damn true! …i have to laugh
I really like what you guys are usually up too.
This sort of clever work and reporting! Keep up the superb works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to blogroll.
hahahaha…. point six describe the story of my friend 😀
I am a graphic designer, and I approve of this page.
I also wonder of the writer dated a really BAD designer. (See what I did there)
He He… so true! My husband is a Graphic Designer, I can totally relate.. 🙂
Love it! Though to be honest this is more a description of why I’d date someone…
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I laughed my ass off. This is ALL true. My soon to be father in law didn’t know how to properly describe me to the family that hasnt met me yet. Now he has a numbered list. Thanks!
forgot “any tattoo’s they have take 35 min to describe the deeper meaning in each stroke, shade, and detail… And the tattoo design is usually something to do with thinking they’re “creative” or “cultural”
and #19 needs a 19.1-2: They HATE PAPYRUS AS MUCH AS THEY HATE COMIC SANS.
haha. Subscribed!
Let me preface by saying that I’m a graphic designer:
I agree with exactly 29 of them.
Some aren’t necessarily ones about GRAPHIC designers though… like painting dolls and having paint on our hands, etc.
Also, some of the points are ones that are only primarily true for what I like to call the “doucheys” of the design world. These are the type of designers that points #15, #6, and #30 describe quite well.
For me, I’d say the ones I ESPECIALLY agree with are points #1, #19, #28, #29, and #46.
Anywho…nice list! Fun read.
*smashes with face on keyboard after a maraton of making the design for a cheezy customer* oh god why…
oh, those one I am familiar with also… 😀
hahahahaha 🙂 I am a graphic designer too 😀 and most of punches were bitter but truths 😀 so enjoy and laugh with me.. 😀 and really someone weird wanted to add more weird person 😛 join me.. http://www.facebook.com/ataurrehmanarts.com D cyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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I have a blog based on the same subjects you discuss and would
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So true!!!! And at one point, I debated naming my newborn “cyan helvetica” …. lol
Kind of hurt my feelings… but still funny.
They work 24/7?
Great dude. Most of them are true.
I hate comic sans and excel, critiquing the restaurant menu design, fill my house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings, dream of the day nobody will make a single change to my designs…. but, have doubt if really I know more positions 🙂
OMG!!!
Being a Graphic Designer, I’d relate most of the facts with myself as well,
but i think this blog should be “50 reasons – to date a graphic designer” Lolz ;))
As a designer, I find this list mostly true. Some things are spot on and some are very far off. But, I think you should add another reason. Reason #51 should be: They will spell-check your “50 Reasons” List.
P.S.
I’m a designer and a copy editor. That’s what makes me effective at my job. To say that designers and copywriters are two different things is not completely true. If the client is not hiring a copy editor, or you’re not part of a firm who has a copy editor, then it is primarily the designer’s job to make sure spelling, grammar, and punctuation are correct (after all, you’re the one being paid to do the work). Your excuse would be similar to a waiter saying “It’s not my fault you chose the wrong wine for your meal.” A waiter at a chain restaurant might say that. But, a seasoned waiter trained in wine pairings will know what to recommend to the diners because most diners will not know what they should pair with their food. Being a graphic designer who can effectively write copy and proof it is the difference between a designer who designs for fun and a designer who (as you say) has a studio for themselves and charges the most in the city. The last 2 projects I completed were take-over designs from inexperienced people charging $10-$20 per hour. They took over 1 month to not finish it, used MS Word and spelled everything wrong. I charged $50 per hour, finished them in an hour each, spelled everything right, and my clients get free (legit) stock photos.
Also, I find #14, #35, #37, #47, and #50 particularly true. 8)
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50 reasons not to date a graphic designer | a bourbon for silvia Thanks for what you might have. This can be the best publish I’ve read
Im a designer and I disagree with 80% of this list.
agree to disagree, buddy 😀
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Awesome post I found about graphic designer’s
Very funny and some of it is true but you must admit not every graphic designer is bad to date. We are kind and creative people. We might be weird but we sure make your life special and different.
Vanessa… this is for fun! l am a designer… l LOVE being a designer… And we sure bring lots of “entertainment” to the pople that dates us 🙂
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I can relate to quite a few of these! The best were #22 … stealing streets signs (I’ve been there), #35 secretly critiquing the menu design (yup) and #48 dream of a day nobody makes a change to my design (oh gawd yes)
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51. they notice that it should say “can’t” in 37. and that there is a spare space in 17.
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Secretly critiquing the menu at the restaurant, hahaha, rolling on the ground laughing my ass off!!!
Graphics Designers from all around the world possess different traits. Very good job, Silvia collecting those various traits and blogged about it.
7,13,15,17,29,30,31,35,36,46,47,48,50 are the points which actually fits with me ! 🙂
I am only 1 2 6 7 9 10 17 19 23 36 38 43 45 47 48 50 and sometimes I don’t even think of myself as a real graphic designer I just go through the emotions
I’m a graphic designer…and theres only about two of these that describe me!
Lol, hilarious, love it!
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fits quite perfectly except the apple part
This is really funny, I must say, however that I’m a designer., a veteran, and I don’t give a reats ass for apple, the apple store or ipods and iphones (although I have owned some). And Comic Sans has a place, now more than ever, because it irritates all the snobs 🙂 Thanks for this, it made my day.
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Thought this was hilarious and so true!!
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Just saw this article and i laughed when i see this items:
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.
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most of them are true and yes i’m a wried one,, :p
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Someone should have proofed this before it went online!
Yes AK, is called the proofreader (not the AD). l´ll make sure he gets fired.
I did date a few graphic designers and they were all boring characters. D:
Dor,
hen it says a lot about your “character” if you keep dating the same “kind” of people… and NOT in a good way…
30. They want to save the world only with a poster.
That killed me XD it’s true!
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Okay as much as this amused me…I am currently interested in graphic design. And I don’t know who the hell you married but they obviously had some problems. And don’t you find it kind of rude to dis out graphic designers like that? Oh look they like graphic design, don’t date them.
Sweetie: I AM a designer… And l believe one of our TRADES should be self-irony and the ability to laugh at ourselves… Don´t you see that is all for fun?
SO much wrong with this post. have you ever met more than one graphic designer? my hate for comic sans is far more extreme than love for Helvetica (it’s a pretty generic typeface). To the (OBVIOUSLY on so many levels) non-graphic designer author of this post: we’re not all stuck up art freaks who only shop at ikea. Get a clue.
Unintelligent, BPD pseudo-designers who get offended by and cannot see the irony of this post should certainly pay a bourbon to all of us who love it. Go get treatment or get a job at Amy’s Baking Company.
I am beginning to doubt about the level of intelligence of some designers, and even more, about some of their humour.
@AL: thanks, you just got it! pass me that bourbon, darling… there is way more stupidity here than l thought possible…
@Silvia, I have been following replies to your post for a couple of years now. I am a copywriter. And I am single too, so if you’re ever down in London let’s paint the town red together. You may fall in love so you’re warned 😉
No need to call your readers unintelligent simply because they disagree. Learn how to take criticism. I showed this to my fellow graphic nerds and though we all expected it to be a funny post we could relate to (as we did for about 5 of the points listed) it ended up making us realize the author was not a graphic designer, but someone who thinks all graphic designers shop at Ikea and owning an iPhone because everyone has one.
http://silviarodo.com/silviarodo.com/-_WORK_HISTORY_-.html
just for a reference, l have been doing this for a while, and not with “small” clients…
and BTW, the coolest designers are geeks, not nerds…
@M, clearly you deserved to be called unintelligent because you simply don’t know the meaning of a very simple word: irony. Google it with your fellow nerds and learn something from it. Maybe it will spill on your next designs. And BTW, I think you sound like an amateur graphic artist – with you amateurish love for Helvetica. There are far better fonts out there now, it’s not between Comic Sans and Helvetica anymore. Stupid is as stupid does. Get a clue.
51. Graphic designers cannot spell or use correct grammar.
haha! lots in common! lols!
I’m in love in Helvetica fonts of course. I hate the Comic Sans! Can we replace Comic Sans in the font family. Seriously, I hate it! 🙂
This is amazing. I have to say I think 36 should be amended to “They listen to the same shit – over and over and over and over again”. Without fail, they always find a song or a band and play it on repeat.
90% matched. 😮
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The majority of these are pretty accurate. What do you think?
I hate Helvetica the (almost) the same way I hate Comic Sans…
They hate each other lol. I read comics too and hate comic sans, love helvetica. The menu design thing is true, they want to save the world with a poster. I have nightmares and sleepless nights about deadlines. Would work 24/7 if I had the chance. Who ever wrote this must have been a graphic designer.
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So true, to a point. I’m a graphic designer and thought #50 – so true! 🙂
So true! Although I did NOT have an orgasm when Adobe bought Macromedia. I cried, because I knew they’d mess it up. And they did.
Hah Verry funny! “They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.” is my favorite one 🙂
and a few of them are actually smart, lol.
That was exactly myself….haha….
“They wanna save the world with one poster!!”
I wanna do that…hehe 🙂
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haha this is so true actually
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
I do hate comic sans!
I’ts truly funny. Great post. But I have to admit that these are all true.
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I pick wine based on the packaging, is that the same thing as 5?
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They are really controlling if you tell them to change something on their website they go crazy. Artists are one of a kind people I tell you what.
5, 6, 17, 35, 48 are totally me! Ah well my boyfriend loves me anyway
Graphic Designers are usually geeks who make themselves out to be artists, even though they know they can’t draw shit or have any Imagination!
They also have a big OCD problem!! They align there pencil, rubber and stapler like a fucking a robot and think like a dalek!
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