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If You were not Designer, What would you be?
Posted by AzizMostafa in
22 Feb 2007 — 10:23pm
22 Feb 2007 — 10:23pm
I’m so grabbing this question from another thread but I thought it would be fun to post as its own topic.
I’m feeling Fonty right now but that could change…
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22 Feb 2007 — 10:50pm
Married to Liza Minnelli!
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week...
23 Feb 2007 — 12:09am
A lawyer.
23 Feb 2007 — 12:13am
Well..
I thought about it.
But I won't be another one than Georg.
I am a driver of a company stretch limousine:
Georg
23 Feb 2007 — 1:14am
love technician
23 Feb 2007 — 3:25am
An architect! Houses and buildnings have always fascinated me.
23 Feb 2007 — 3:53am
Out of work
23 Feb 2007 — 4:56am
Mix tape curator
ƒ
23 Feb 2007 — 5:06am
A Doctor.
23 Feb 2007 — 5:24am
An unemployed opera singer or a warm-up act comedian at an old-age home on open-mike night :-)
ChrisL
23 Feb 2007 — 5:29am
A Physicist or an Engineer... Of course, the work would be harder and I probably wouldn't get laid as often. Sacrifices I suppose.
23 Feb 2007 — 6:17am
A poor artist or a chemist.
23 Feb 2007 — 6:25am
Georg,
Looks like your "Stretch Limo" was accidentally redistributed into the thinspace bin :-)
ChrisL
23 Feb 2007 — 6:27am
Andrew,
I didn't know being a designer had become a bedside mannerism :-)
ChrisL
23 Feb 2007 — 6:29am
I'd be a shrink. I love listening to peoples problems. Makes me feel better about my own.
23 Feb 2007 — 6:31am
Dr. Patty,
Do you have an opening at 3:00pm? I have enough problems to tell you to make you feel better for life :-)
ChrisL
23 Feb 2007 — 6:33am
I would either be a racecar driver or an accountant. How's that for range.
23 Feb 2007 — 6:36am
I guess we can't typecast Matthew!
ChrisL
23 Feb 2007 — 7:05am
I can't imagine not doing something that doesn't involve design, so perhaps the "right" answer is dead.
23 Feb 2007 — 7:20am
Rally Car Driver. Maaaaybe president.
23 Feb 2007 — 8:32am
On the Dole probably, or working in school…wait I do that already.
23 Feb 2007 — 8:38am
Chris - that'll be 5¢.
23 Feb 2007 — 9:15am
Linus will pay you Tuesday Patty :-)
ChrisL
23 Feb 2007 — 9:25am
Good grief!
23 Feb 2007 — 10:31am
Marine Biologist. Photographer. Language teacher. Actor. Novelist. There's no shortage of interesting things to do in this world.
23 Feb 2007 — 12:15pm
a gardener. They don't need upgrades, validation, registration numbers and don't expire in 2 years and decompose on their own.
23 Feb 2007 — 12:33pm
A retired major league athlete.
23 Feb 2007 — 12:37pm
beach bum, scavenger, itinerant minstrel, inmate, monk, prostitute, or....
wait a minute, as a freelance designer i get to be all these things !!
;-}
23 Feb 2007 — 12:42pm
Peacock Feather Trimmer or Tiger Slayer
23 Feb 2007 — 2:40pm
Rock Star Groupie
Edit: But I'd need a time machine as I'd want it to be for Led Zeppelin in their hayday. :^D
23 Feb 2007 — 2:42pm
Edit: cross post
23 Feb 2007 — 2:52pm
Gardener sounds good. Or Scientist. Or Blimp Pilot, or Ice Cream flavor inventor... Erik is right, there are no end of interesting things.
23 Feb 2007 — 5:17pm
Good grief indeed! That photo has made my day, Chris! :-D
23 Feb 2007 — 6:11pm
Glad to help! Now if you pay me 5 cents Ricardo, I can pay Patty what I owe her :-)
ChrisL
23 Feb 2007 — 7:02pm
An architect (after my foundation year at college, I had to make a choice between becoming an artist/designer or architect).
Otherwise I would be...
23 Feb 2007 — 7:27pm
I worked in a psychiatric hospital for 6 years- no joke. That was somewhat different than scheduled appointments in an outpatient psychiatric setting, but similar in some aspects as well. I worked with people on all different functioning levels, running groups, 1:1 counseling, verbal/physical intervention, etc.
I got burned out and did a career change in my early 20s. I have no desire to go back to psyche in any capacity- it wouldn't be right anyway, because my heart's not in it any longer. I do think the experience has helped me be a better designer on a psychological aspect- I'm pretty good at getting a feel for what clients will like... it's hard to explain so briefly here.
If I weren't an illustrator, I'd want to be a rock star. Get up on stage and deafen myself as I pound the crap out of my instrument and then go drink beer after the show. Maybe run off with some adoring fan. I say this because I thought working with type would be similar, and man what a let down that has been. :)
If I couldn't be the rock star and needed to get something a little more "down to earth", I'd go into sales.
23 Feb 2007 — 9:27pm
During college I worked as a bag boy in a supermarket. After about a year, I told the store manager I wanted to quit, that I was going to pursue a career in art. He urged me to reconsider, that I a guy like me could go far in the grocery business, that I was throwing away a good opportunity.
23 Feb 2007 — 9:29pm
> I can’t imagine not doing something that doesn’t involve design,
> so perhaps the “right” answer is dead.
Linda, do you live to design or design to live?
> A gardener. They don’t need upgrades, validation, registration numbers
and don’t expire in 2 years and decompose on their own.
__ A gardener. They don’t need Typophies, validation, registration members
and do multiply in 2 years and don’t decompose in town.
Vinceconnare, we need a quick change of direction?!
23 Feb 2007 — 11:07pm
Aziz, what do you mean by 'Designer'?
'Cause I understand 'Designer' as one who can communicate - and one who can communicate in many different disciplines is one as valid(?) as one who can communicate in a single discipline ie. Type.
I'm a grad of the Frank Lloyd Wright school of architecture, (only because it was the lesser of all evils), and I have dabbled in fashion design, graphic design, and industrial design. Unfortunately, and with deep regret, I only got a grip on the design of Type a year or so ago.
Az man, if I couldn't design - I would die of a broken heart - serious.
_________
Hiro
23 Feb 2007 — 11:57pm
I'd be a pole dancer.
24 Feb 2007 — 5:22am
> Aziz, what do you mean by ‘Designer’?
* Hiroshige, All the above-mentioned + the One who does Construction+Deconstruction+Destruction with XXX?!
24 Feb 2007 — 7:23am
I'd probably be either a filmmaker/animator or an illustrator/artist.
24 Feb 2007 — 7:53am
Actually, I wasn't kidding about the Kung Fu Master answer, though I did forget to mention teacher.
For me art, design, typography, calligraphy, martial arts (I've studied nearly fifteen years traditional Japanese and Chinese martial arts with asian masters) and teaching are all part of being... and each one shares or infuses meaning into the others.
Though not typically connected in Western thought, becoming a master swordsman or calligrapher was not seen as very different from an Eastern viewpoint.
24 Feb 2007 — 7:56am
Music producer or DJ. Or a Chemist. I did study one year of chemical engineering before quiting it to start in graphic design.
24 Feb 2007 — 9:38am
Aziz, you wrote Linda, do you live to design or design to live?
Probably both. ;-) After having a career as a successful writer and broadcaster, I trained and practiced as an interior designer in NYC, and combined the two by doing pretty much everything in PR, marketing, communications and publications design -- for "fun", I did "craft."
Then I went back to graduate school to do a Masters in Environmental Design and started exploring a lot more of the graphic/typography side of wayfinding and how we interact with our world. Now I've brought that part of me together with the craft side to design and bind books.
And write a little.
Terry, you wrote I’d probably be either a filmmaker/animator or an illustrator/artist.
Doesn't count, man: that's still "design." ;-)
24 Feb 2007 — 9:53am
Musician. Oh wait, I already tried that…
peace
24 Feb 2007 — 12:18pm
@ Paul,
very good humor, indeed. :-)
Georg
24 Feb 2007 — 3:14pm
I’d probably be either a filmmaker/animator or an illustrator/artist.
I know Linda will object to 2/3 of my answer (and rightly so!), but it is pretty close to Terry's: If I weren't a designer, I would perhaps be a filmmaker, an illustrator, or a writer.
Now if you pay me 5 cents Ricardo, I can pay Patty what I owe her.
Here ya go, Chris. :-)
24 Feb 2007 — 6:35pm
Ricardo, that is a beaut! a 1935 Indian head nichol!
Well Patty, I guess it belongs to you now :-) I'll be in New York next weekend to get my head shrunk ( by Maxim Zhukov).
ChrisL
24 Feb 2007 — 6:48pm
Here we go again with the SPAM botts!!!
ChrisL
24 Feb 2007 — 7:33pm
Yup. By the way, Chris, that nickel was brought to you courtesy of Wikipedia... :-)