You Know You Are a Curtin Design Student when....

(Some of these apply to design students in general, not just those at Curtin,and ofc not all apply to all of us. Dont take these too seriously too ok? ^^)

You have 6 or so lecturers/tutors and you only need to remember two names - Paul and Ash

You can differentiate who Ash and AshAsh are.

You wear a significant amount of black

You walk into lectures/tutes and you think you walked into some kinda goth club.

You think 'PC' is a dirty word

No MacbookPro, no cool.

Nothing is boring/ugly. Its Modernist.

PS, AI, FL and ID these terms all make perfect sense to you

Adobe is the shit/gives you the shits (depends how you look at it, and what you do with it)

Non-design people look at your work and reckon they could do the same thing easy in a flash on Paint/Publisher/insert cheapskate program name here, but we know theres more chance of raining men (or women, if you are a man) than them accomplishing said task in their claimed timeframe

People not in Design think you sit around and all you do is draw pretty pictures all day without a care in the world. sif.

You are/try to be/unknowingly is pretentious some way or other to some extent.

You have a perfectly valid excuse to buy a Mac and love your course even more for it.

You dont classify yourself as straight, bi or homo. You are Mac.

Coming up with concepts/layouts for a brief, is actually brain draining, contrary to what everyone else thinks. (WTF they used to make us do 100! There goes our social life.)

You are tired staying up to finish work, but you wouldnt mind staying up cos you are actually having bucketloads of fun.

Liquify on PS is the fun-est/funniest thing ever.

You Photoshop all your pics before they make it to Facebook/Myspace.

............then look at them and think 'dammit wish I looked that hot in real life!'

You dont refer to colours as red blue green yellow etc, but as 8973c, 7777c, fff8ccc and the like.

Your eyes hurt. alot.

Ctrl-Z/apple-Z is the solution to everything.

You sleep during the day, work during the night, because thats when inspiration strikes!

You have been to Coles/Woolies to take pics of juice as part of research for a certain first year assignment and people gave you wierd looks. TERRORIST!

You were tempted to wear a 'Competition Analysis' badge/teeshirt/clipboard while doing above mentioned picture-taking at Coles/Woolies, just for fun ^^

People stare at textbooks, you stare at the computer.








Phweeet! Ok I finally ran out! Feel free to add more! Im sure there are more! =D Add add add!