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50 reasons not to date a graphic designer

Shibani — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:41:29 +0000

They are very weird people.
There are billions of them in the world, like colors on the screen of your computer.
They will analyse conversations in layers.
You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA.
They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
They hate each other.
You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
They cant change a light bulb or without making a sketch.
They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.
They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.
They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.
You never know if it is really an original or a copy.
They make collages with your photos.
They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.
They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.
They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.
They ask your opinion about everything but they do whatever they want.
Everything is left justified, right or center unless they arrive late.
They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.
You can not decorate the house without consulting them.
They steal street signs.
Always carry their hands painted with something.
They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.
Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …
When arguing, you will be nicknamed like the OSX spinning wheel (not affectionately)
Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
They hate Excel.
They read comics.
They want to save the world only with a poster.
You will spend the day brainstorming.
On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.
Museums are their second home.
They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
They listen to music you have never heard of.
They can’t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.
They read rare books: stories of children, Semiotics …
When you are going to tell you something, everyone has read it in their facebook and twitter.
They have own iPods before you knew they existed.
The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.
They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.
You will never understand their gifts.
They see ordinary objects and laugh.
You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming “When is the deadline?”
They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs.
They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.
They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.

From: a bourbon for silvia

An Ode On A Typeface

Shibani — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:55:11 +0000

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Should..

Shibani — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:37:01 +0000

Should get back to blogging. Should get back to expressing myself in more than 140 chs. Should vent wholeheartedly. Hell, how many chs is that? Argh, twitter!

10 Things I always forget before launching a website

Shibani — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:51:55 +0000

I found this very useful article while browsing. These are 10 basic things to remember before launching a website that we often forget.

Take a look

Tweetspeare

Shibani — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:32:04 +0000

Some tweets dedicated to the bard

To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question
A tweet by any other name would be as perky
The course of perky tweets never did run true
Brevity is the soul of twit(ter)
Though this be madness, yet there is twitter in it
Et tu, Twitter!
Not that I loved Echofon less but I loved twitter web more
All the world’s a web page and all the men and women merely tweets
Give thy tweets no tongue
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in tweets

A Small Change..

Shibani — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:21:49 +0000

Come October and my blog pronounces its support for the pink ribbon. The header image is not the only thing that’s changed. I’ve tweaked the CSS file too. A small change can make a lot of difference. That’s also the intention of this upgrade. A bit of awareness about the issue can help and make a huge difference.

Gravatars

Shibani — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:06:28 +0000

Added Gravatars to blog posts and comments. Let’s see how it looks and works. Will add a few kb to every page but I think I can manage that.

Handbook for life

Shibani — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:58:00 +0000

Health:

Drink plenty of water.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer.
Play more games.
Read more books than you did in 2008.
Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
Sleep for 7 hours.
Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
Dream more while you are awake.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
Smile and laugh more.
You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:

Call your family often.
Each day give something good to others.
Forgive everyone for everything.
Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
Try to make at least three people smile each day.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

Do the right thing!
Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
GOD heals everything.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
The best is yet to come.
When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Madness/Insantity Quotes

Shibani — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:19:32 +0000

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ~ Akira Kurosawa
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ~ Baltasar Gracian
I’m a nut, but not just a nut. ~ Bill Murray
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~ Bruce Feirstein
Insanity doesn’t run in my family. It gallops. ~ Cary Grant
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. ~ G.B. Burgin
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ~ Isaac Newton
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ~ Jean Dubuffet
There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! ~ John Dryden (The Spanish Friar)
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~ Mark Twain
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. ~ Mark Twain
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. ~ Nathaniel Emmons
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table)
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ~ Oscar Levant
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau’s assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordeau forgets that all sane people are idiots. ~ Oscar Wilde
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity. ~ Oscar Wilde
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every 4 Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you. ~ Rita Mae Brown
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. ~ Robin Williams
The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. ~ Salvador Dali
We are all born mad. Some remain so. ~ Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. ~ Samuel Levenson
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ~ Steve Landesberg
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. ~ Thomas Carlyle
I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. ~ Waylon Jennings
There is no insanity so devastating in man’s life as utter sanity. ~ William Allen White
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? ~ William Saroyan

Coltrane Rocks!

Shibani — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:31:42 +0000

WordPress has always been a fantastic platform and has never failed to impress. The new upgrade – Coltrane – absolutely rocks! The interface is very pleasant and easy to use. I had seen this new look with the .com version and was hoping that I could get it too…and here it is. I am 2.7 powered A huge thumbs up for the usability. A lot of other cool features make this installation a huge favourite. But all this wouldn’t have been possibile without the sweet and ever-helping genius – Atul

Thanx, man, I owe you a few coffees now

Cheers!