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Sunday, August 10, 2008
25 Bad Habits of Graphic Designers
I read this from my friend's journal and I found that I could relate to quite a few, what about you guys? xD - 1. Taking Constructive Criticism Personally 2. Not Knowing Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand and Friends 3. Not Staying up on Current Events and Design News 4. Not Owning the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook 5. Charging too Little for Design Projects 6. Not Using Contracts to Cover Your Butt 7. Not Setting Deadlines for Projects 8. Doing Spec Based Work (If you like it you can pay) 9. Not Asking for a Down Payment before Starting a Project 10. Using Poorly Designed Fonts from Free Font Sites 11. Using Display Fonts as Text Fonts 12. Using the Comic Sans Font 13. Using too Many Different Fonts in One Design 14. Forgetting White Space is your Friend 15. Not Sketching Before Designing 16. Not Using Rulers on Screen 17. Relying Totally on the Computer, Especially for Kerning 18. Using Photoshop Filters After Your First 6 Months 19. Using Low Resolution Web Images for Print 20. Not Designing Logos in Vector Format 21. Making Logos Unable to Reproduce Well Small 22. Forgetting to Learn Keyboard Shortcuts 23. Not Saving Frequently 24. Not Backing up Files on an External Hard Drive 25. Not Getting Enough Sleep! Stop Drinking so much Red Bull!
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