16.9.11

Will you date me?

I stumbled a list, of why one shouldn't date a designer.

50 of it!? Are we that bad!? Well, I'm an art director - this list still apply.


  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 cant 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 hearing 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.


Wait! Before you run away, stay for a while.

I'll explain...

12 comments:

  1. funneh. the internet seems to hate Comic Sans too. Why?

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  2. LOL! U make designer sound like one interesting creature! XD I hope I meet one of this kind soon, cos i have lost interest. LOve ur Weird lists, so far i can accept most of ur strange behaviour... And I hope that u can pop out if my computer and bug me wit it cos I am really really BORED to death! But too bad....

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  3. Not only that, Amanda, most part of the world hated it.

    Open up your Word and blow up the size. Take a good look at it. Where does Comic Sans fit in? Title? Body text? Even putting it in a comic strip's speech bubbles would be an insult to the comic. Oh! Children's books? Nah. There are more better looking fonts which fit that category.

    Maybe I should scribble a post on Comic Sans alone. You know, as a creative view on it?

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  4. Most, Venie? Which one you can't? :P

    What's with the boredom lah? With the tech nowadays, I'm sure it's quite possible. Not up to the extend of popping out your screen, but things like emails, Yahoo or MSN Messenger, etc. *hint, hint* :D

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  5. *They hate Excel.
    I super Love Excel, I even idolise it!


    *They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.
    I prefer Durian store...

    So other than this two I think I can accept the rest and Seems like I have some of those symptoms too, so did that make me a designer too?! LOL!

    Bored easily wit new tech too :/ cannot catch ur hint... Wat u wanna say?

    Oh... i only play FB & google, I give up the Rest....

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  6. Nah, just kacau-ing you, Venie.

    Will write another post on this list. Lots of it are ridiculous, really. Giving wrong impression of us, art-/design-based people.

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  7. LOL! NOw i know I am not the only weirdo... ( or maybe I am meant to be a designer too? LOL )

    I actually do this:
    - They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.

    BUt then now i will prefer to choose products that is not Made in China / Indonesia, and sometime Thailand....

    -You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.

    If can I will wish that I can pause those credits and read carefully

    -They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.

    I always do that before but Now I will sayang my table and I will put some newspaper below it. 'cos those scratch feel like scars...

    -They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say

    LOL!!! that's wat i do when I am watching those HK / SG series, I will study the fashion of those actor/actress than listening to wat they say.

    - They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.

    LOL!!!! So don hate me if suddenly Rihanna become a toothless pirate :P


    There's too many I can write!!! So i really don think Designers r weirdo ;) Just that some people are too normal and boring :P

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  8. I got two third of all these traits and I'm not even an art persuns!!!

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  9. "Just that some people are too normal and boring"

    I like this statement of yours, Venie.

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  10. Exactly, Offley.

    I guess some people are just too free to come out a list like this. Which does not even really relate to "us".

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  11. I'm a designer in making..lol..my creative director HATES comic sans too! he's favourite font is helvetica and gotham. hahahah!!

    but somehow, my boyfriend the programmer hates comic sans...is it a programmer and designer thing? hahaha.

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  12. You see what I mean, alwizhyper? I think Comic Sans are created for the sake of creating it. I seriously don't see where it would fit.

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