All right, let’s be honest. We’re among friends.
Newspaper designers are dorks. Undateable. Uninteresting. Consumed with minutiae. Care about things no one else does, sort of like Trekkies. I am convinced that you could change the premise of the TV show The Big Bang Theory so that the protagonists were newspaper designers instead of physics mavens and the show could remain pretty much the same.
You ask a newspaper designer how s/he liked a story and you get a treatise on typefaces, linespacing, column widths, color theory, blah blah blah — everything but whether they liked the story or not. God help you if you ask them about an information graphic. I love newspaper designers.
Just for fun, I would like some help in compiling a list titled: “You know you are a newspaper designer if you….”
I think it’s perfect for a Friday in May. Whatcha got for me?
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You find yourself critiquing the selections on a menu and it has nothing to do with the food.
Good one! I have done it. Found spelling errors, too.
Reading an essentially anonymous one-man-show website criticizing design issues without offering samples of their own superior design.
I’ll have to make links to my background on the About page more obvious. Also I have some samples on a page of that name on the site. Finally, I am no longer a designer, just a teacher. I don’t think I ever claimed that my work was superior to anything. One doesn’t have to be a film director to be a film direction critic. Thanks for reading.