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Tad Carpenter

5 years

Me to my computer: "Ok, let's make some good graphic design today!" Narrator: "He did not make good graphic design today."

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Tad Carpenter

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1 year

So I accidentally attached this meme of Kelly from The Office in a client email discussing design revisions. The client responded with an LOL & said ok ok we get it, lets move forward with your design recommendation. I've never felt more embarrassed & empowered at the same time.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 months

Being an adult means watching a 2 hour movie in like 8 or 9 days.

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Tad Carpenter

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6 months

Oh my bad I thought EOD stood for End of Da-Month. Sending asap.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Design is easy. You just write 100 emails a day, attend 6 or 7 meetings and then start designing at 4:45pm.

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Tad Carpenter

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7 years

The announcement of the new Mr. Rogers biopic reminded me of the below screenshot thats been sitting on my desktop for over 3 years. I reference it ALL the time.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Client: tell me, what was the inspiration behind this design? Me: the deadline

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Tad Carpenter

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4 years

Design is so easy. You just sit down at a computer start drawing, clicking and poof 147 hours later you have one little kinda ok thing.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Graphic design is one day doing absolutely nothing and then the next day frantically making a million silly little salad logos as fast as you can.

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Tad Carpenter

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1 year

My dentist has jokes

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

Probably like 50% of graphic design is just aligning stuff, creatively.

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Tad Carpenter

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9 years

The @Royals won their first World Series in 30 years last week & my bud Brad & I were at both the 85 & 15 parades!

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

A graphic designer being asked to make a powerpoint presentation is like a chef being asked to microwave a hot pocket.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Design is easy. You just have a hundred little meetings a day, write dozens of emails and then you sit down and design for like 15 minutes at 4:45pm.

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

How people who say "typeface" look at people who say "fonts".

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

Oh, you’re a graphic designer? Name every font ever.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

WIFE: Why were you tossing and turning so much last night? ME: A lot on my mind? WIFE: You can talk to me. ME: Why on earth is a finished building still called a building. That's dumb?! That’s like a finished cake being called baking. WIFE: *walks away

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Tad Carpenter

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4 years

Probably like 80% of graphic design is just organizing someone else's mind dump.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

3 years

What a hard week for picture books. So saddened to hear of the passing of the legend Eric Carle. How on earth do you pick a favorite Carle? The stories. The art. The emotions in everything he created. I know one thing, we'll be reading Brown Bear tonight. Thank you Mr. Carle.

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Tad Carpenter

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10 months

Me adding a few more dots, stars and whatnot to my little graphic design before I hit send.

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

My creative process please enjoy:

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

3 years

Probably like 50% of graphic design is just searching for an ok script typeface.

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Tad Carpenter

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3 months

70% of graphic design is just shaking your head in disapproval of something.

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Tad Carpenter

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6 years

Graphic design is 70% being creative and 42% being glad there’s very minimal math.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Hiring a professional, well-trained graphic designer is a very important decision.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

graphic design peaked with feed n seed bags

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

doing graphic design between 4pm and 5pm should be an olympic sport

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

Choosing to be a graphic designer is admitting you don’t mind failing like 70% of the time.

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Tad Carpenter

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4 months

Imagine having a bakery and after each customer purchase you then kicked them in the ass and stole their wallet on the way out.—Interesting way to support the artist who use and back your business, Adobe.

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Tad Carpenter

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5 months

Being a graphic designer is learning to be okay with Carol from accounting occasionally coming into the meeting to share why she "just hates the color blue".

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

Probably like 50% of graphic design is just writing emails that start with "So sorry for the delayed response...".

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

graphic design is scrolling twitter for 25 minutes then watching 6 videos on youtube and then drawing one little logo.

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

So it turns out being a graphic designer is mostly just googling how to export stuff.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

Graphic Design is like a fart. If you force it, it’s gonna be crap.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

3 years

Welcome to graphic design. Please share your work and someone will be with you shortly to tell you how you’re doing it wrong.

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Tad Carpenter

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8 months

80% of graphic design is just being mad about something

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Oh, you’re a graphic designer? Name every keyboard shortcut ever.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Turns out being a graphic designer is mostly just googling how to export stuff.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 months

Anyone who thinks "the customer is always right" probably never worked in design.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

6 years

Design is 20% design and 80% emailing about design.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

3 years

Graphic Design is art. But with emails. And brand standards. And creative strategy. Oh and committee meetings. And gradients. Oh and sometimes fights over fonts. Graphic Design is art.

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Tad Carpenter

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1 year

A DYNAMIC PRIMARY LOGO SYSTEM, 10 SECONDARY LOGOS, 50 SUPPLEMENTAL ICONS, 100 BRAND TOUCH POINTS, AN IDENTITY SYSTEM WITH HUNDREDS OF ASSETS AHHHHH GO GO GO!

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

Graphic Design helps pay for all the stress eating I do because of Graphic Design.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

Few things in life are certain: - death - taxes - design revisions at 5pm

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

3 years

Me when Adobe Illustrator "quits unexpectedly".

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

6 months

Being a designer is basically convincing yourself you can get one more thing done before you have to stand up and go pee.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

6 years

Friend: Being a designer looks so cool, just drawing stuff all day. My Actually Week: Sent 54 emails Wrote 3 proposals Dealt w/ water damage & contractors in our studio 5 meetings Complained a lot Oversee new sign install 4 new biz calls Designed 1 thing so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

6 years

How to chose the right typeface: - Look at fonts for IDK, 2 to 3 hours - Place hands on your hips and approvingly nod your head - Use that font you've already used 400 times before it's fine

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

Graphic design is getting paid to be creative and then writing 400 little emails about it.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

A TYPEFACE IS A SET OF GLYPHS OR ALPHABET & ITS ACCESSORIES THAT SHARE A COMMON DESIGN. EXAMPLE, HELVETICA IS A WELL KNOWN TYPEFACE. A FONT HOWEVER IS A PARTICULAR SET OF GLYPHS WITHIN A TYPEFACE, THINK WEIGHT, SIZE OR OTHER VARIABLES. PEOPLE LOVE TO SAY FONT & ARE OFTEN WRONG...

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

1 year

@katylcowan yes, try now apologize later. ;)

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

3 months

Seeing a designer "redesign" an already good iconic logo for clicks that does NOT need to be redesigned:

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

7 years

Being a designer can be a lot like cooking with a Crock-Pot. You just start dumping stuff into it and hope something good happens in like 7-8 hours.

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Tad Carpenter

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4 months

Being a designer is working really hard to make something you love and then sharing it with others to find out what kinda sucks about it.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

Being a graphic designer means coming up with an idea and doing a million little versions of it until you cant see straight. Then you show a friend who tells you yeah the one you did like 3 days ago is by far the best one.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

4 years

Me designing in another designers InDesign file:

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Tad Carpenter

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6 years

Design is like going to Costco. Both take twice as long as you expected and generally end with me crying and holding an industrial size box of Taquitos.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

I’m just a boy standing in front of a pot of coffee asking it to bring him enough energy to respond to that one email where a client called my logo concept a "fun little cartoon".

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

Client: (whispers into my coffin) The type still needs to be bigger.

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Tad Carpenter

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6 years

When a client says, "What do you mean fonts cost money?"

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

Sometimes it feels like my toddler doesn’t even care about all my graphic design deadlines.

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Tad Carpenter

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26 days

Being a designer is like signing up to have fun little homework assignments everyday for the rest of your life.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

A reality TV show where graphic designers are forced to watch high schoolers critique their work. I would cry.

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

Client emailed to tell us they can't approve the budget or overall scope of the project yet but do need us to start on it no later than tomorrow.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

My Artboards in Adobe Illustrator when starting a new branding project:

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

1 year

It’s SUN-day! SUN No. 416. #SUNdaySUNS To all those Momma Bears out there. Thank you so much for all that you do. See them all at .

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

From what I can tell, you pay thousands of dollars for daycare and in return your entire house gets sick every two weeks.

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Tad Carpenter

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7 years

Probably the most dangerous thing I've ever done is not save an AI file for like 35 to 40 minutes.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

I don't care how many fancy degrees you have, nothing prepares you for someone asking you to place a QR code inside a logo lockup.

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

When I see you Retweeting your own Tweet:

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Tad Carpenter

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5 years

Million Dollar Idea: A photographer and designer create a studio together to just document and design beautiful case studies for all us designers who can't find the time to do it on our own.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 years

Being a graphic designer sometimes feels like being one of those HGTV contractors that just found unforeseen structural damage to the house they’re trying to flip in 48 hours.

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Tad Carpenter

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5 years

I got kicked out of a design conference for not having a single sticker on my laptop.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

50% of graphic design is just holding in having to pee.

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

*receives worst design feedback ever Ok all sounds great excited to share revisions soon.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

8 years

Remember the first 10 minutes of the film 'Up' when you cried a bunch? Yeah, thats what the new Bon Iver album is like.

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Tad Carpenter

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5 years

Me: I was just sent an InDesign file with 87 missing links and 11 active fonts. 911 Operator: Goodness gracious.

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Tad Carpenter

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4 years

Giant beard, beanie and spends all year judging you. Is Santa a graphic designer?

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

1 year

@bencouraging after nearly 20 years I unlocked a cheat code

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

4 years

I pretty much hate the "quick let's critique (crap all over) a rebrand on the internet" culture BUT this new Seattle Kraken brand system is so well done and deserves the opposite. Wow, this is so lovely. Anyone who has issues with it has to be "squidding" me.

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The NHL's newest team is the Seattle Kraken. Grade the logo and look.

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Tad Carpenter

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5 years

It’s SUN-day! Actually no, it’s SON-day! Because I became a Dad!!!!! SUN No. 228. #SUNdaySUNS Meet Jessica Carpenter and I’s SON, Luca James Carpenter. See them all at

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5 years

Me checking in on an invoice that's 60 days past due.

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5 years

“ You coulda done better.” - my 9 year old nieces review of a logo I designed.

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Tad Carpenter

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6 years

Design on Mondays is called emailing.

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Tad Carpenter

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5 years

Graphic Designers out there using PCs opposed to Macs are cops.

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Tad Carpenter

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3 years

Client: this looks nice. it's so simple and effortless. Me: it took me like 50-60 hours to get it to look like that.

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Tad Carpenter

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6 years

Don’t cry because Illustrator crashed, smile because you get a 5 minute break while it relaunches to hop onto Twitter which inevitably turns into 45.

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Tad Carpenter

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4 years

Being creative right now feels like trying to swim in a pool of mashed potatoes.

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Tad Carpenter

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Tad Carpenter

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7 years

According to my Fitbit I'm either a graphic designer or in a coma.

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Tad Carpenter

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6 years

I have a client right now that would make a terrible Spice Girl. They have no idea what they want what they really really want.

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Tad Carpenter

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7 years

Great news! The client loved your concept and only has 67 revisions for you to consider.

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Tad Carpenter

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6 years

Client: Can we get a little sneak peek of the concepts a week early? Me: Can I get paid double tomorrow?

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Tad Carpenter

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2 years

Our studio bookshelf and a couple details

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

Scientists please just tell us when the world's gonna end so we can stop putting our portfolios together.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

4 years

Thunder only happens when it's raining. Adobe Illustrator only crashes on a tight deadline.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

5 years

Things are so hard right now. Today though, my son and I dressed the same and you know what, it kinda helped. Big virtual hugs everyone.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

2 months

shazam, but for neat little fonts

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

3 years

Design like nobody’s watching. Because they aren’t. Nobody really cares just go have some fun ok.

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Tad Carpenter

@TadCarpenter

1 year

graphic design is a lot like being a chef except imagine bringing out the entree and hearing, "great start, but we have some notes" and "if we remove all these almonds will this be cheaper"

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