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30 Comic Strips That Perfectly Describe The Life Of A Designer

Designers are like gladiators, battling ugliness in the client’s colosseum. Creative Market depicts the best and worst parts of being a designer with #DesignerProblems, a weekly comic strip written and illustrated by Seth Roberts and Brian Hawes. Check it out below.

1.

Designer Problems - Helvetica

 

2.

Designer Problems - Changes

 

3.

Designer Problems - Touching the computer screen

 

4.

Designer Problems - Kerning

 

5.

Designer Problems - If doctors were treated like designers

 

6.

Designer Problems - Papyrus

 

7.

Designer Problems - Logos

 

8.

Designer Problems - Art Director

 

9.

Designer Problems - Working from home

 

10. Stranded With Your Art Director

Designer Problems - Art Director

 

11.

Designer Problems - Wow factor

 

12.

Designer Problems - Serif vs Sans Serif

 

13.

Designer Problems - Design changes

 

14.

Designer Problems - Pictionary

 

15.

Designer Problems - Career changes

 

16.

Designer Problems - Better fonts

 

17.

Designer Problems - Annoying clients

 

18.

Designer Problems - Make the logo bigger

 

19.

Designer Problems - Heavy PSDs

 

20.

Designer Problems - People behind workstation

 

21.

Designer Problems - Pantone

 

22.

Designer Problems - Too much in the head

 

23.

Designer Problems - Psychiatrist

 

24.

Designer Problems - Comic Sans

 

25.

Designer Problems - Photoshop Game

 

26.

Designer Problems - Bad Clients

 

27.

Designer Problems - Old Work

 

28.

Designer Problems - Ugly Package Design

 

29.

Designer Problems - Free Work

 

30.

Designer Problems - Designer Wedding

SEE MORE …

Our favourites: no. 1, 29, and 30. What about you? Share this post with a fellow designer and voice your (funny) problems in the comments below.

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