How do you know when you are a graphic designer suffering a midlife crisis -
- When you feel all the other designs are looking prettier than yours
- When you see a brochure and say – Why the “bleep” would you make typography that small – I would need a magnifying glass to read that (or my reading glasses). Thinking about it why did I used to laugh when someone suggested making body copy 12pt – it’s just perfectly sensible.
- When you want to get rid of your old Mac and get a newer more attractive model
- When you want an Ipad because – why?… well that still makes you hip doesn’t it?
- When you still have a fax machine in the corner of your office just in case anyone ever wants to send some amends through
- When you’re thinking about changing to Radio 2 for your background office music – because Radio 1 just repeats itself all day and what’s the “bleeping” dance stuff all about anyway
- When you still have a can of spray mount in the cupboard and have a little reminiscent sniff of its lid when you see it
- When you still think tranny means a 5″ x 4″ or 35mm slide you need to get scanned
- When you still love quark – and you don’t care what anyone else says, you know you’re right
So how did you do?
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22 Comments
How about adding:
“When you’ve still got a tray full of Letraset font cards, and kinda realise you’re not going to use them again, but keep them as they ‘used to be important’.
Good Idea Thule – I remember having one of those Letraset books – haven’t got it any more I don’t think (unless its in the loft)
I did amazingly fine. Had a some laughs reading your post.
I’ll admit however.. just before InDesign came out I was a Quark fan. Prior to that it was PageMaker. Adobe kept visiting me and preaching InDesign will smash Quark.
Dance music is fun, so Radio 1 is fine.
And I still have spray mount left.
Hi Jae – you don’t look old enough to have a midlife crisis anyway. Long live spraymount!
@Tara: HAHAHAHA! I second that!
I know a designer who still gets through his spray mount – clients still like to be wowed by a nice bit of mountboard with a quality mounted visual in ‘power’ meetings…
@Tara…. Lerv this! hahahaha..
Can I post this on my blog?
Hi Reikko – Thanks you are welcome to post an excerpt from it if you don’t mind giving a link back. Cheers Tara
Hi Roxy – Nothing wrong with a bit of mount board, polyboards even better
Great post, A designers midlife crisis doesn’t sound too bad!! Not too scared of having one now!!
Thanks for sharing!!!
Hahah.. Great post
Gotta forward this to some colleagues!
Tara, how did you do yourself
?
Hi Autostol
errrrr…. no comment
I’m familiar with a lot of those and I’m just 19!
Hi Edward
Surely not
Thanks for your comment.
Tara
Lol…great ones…But i haven’t reached this state yet
Regards
Smita
Hi Smita
You’re lucky – one day maybe
Hello Tara,
Any tips to avoid such situation
Regards
Smita
Hi Smita – pretend you are still a kid
Seriously I am
Regards
Smita
I feel like a midlife crisis designr!
haha XD
But I hope be an excelent designer!
Im only 21
u.u
Tara, I laughed my socks off, but at 56 I now realize I’ve past the ‘design midlife crisis’, as all my Paraphernalia recently ended up in a big skip, unfortunately the next stage from Paraphernalia is Paranoia!
…. don’t ask, but it’ll come to you all.
All the Best
Hi Paul – oh no, paranoia to look forward to next then