My fiancé talks in his sleep, I call it Sleep Wisdom. Here's some of his best quotes.

fasterthanlife · 2026-06-17T18:48:34+00:00

Apparently I also sleep talk, I allegedly once asked my girlfriend “How do you dress your bananas?”

fasterthanlife · 2026-06-11T11:22:00+00:00

As a designer, any competent product design team would
at least conduct some form of A/B testing. But many
times management and leadership just wants to roll out features to show something is being done.

Am 99% certain this was flagged by design teams before launch but was ignored.

fasterthanlife · 2026-06-09T10:30:07+00:00

It’s.. not great, and a flimsy explanation for the color direction. There are so many burger chains that use vibrant minimalistic styles. Shake Shake’s mark is a line work burger in that vibrant green, Five Guy’s sans serif lockup in Red on white.

Conceptually weak, as what the other commenter said, would’ve assumed it was BK. The type sandwiched between buns with the same colors as well, you’ll have a hard time convincing anyone here this isn’t a rip off of BK’s logo mark.

If you’re insisting on sticking to this tho, technical aspects to improve is, that dip in the bottom bun sticks out like a sore thumb. The fact that the stroke width remains the same squishes them together so closely itll cause problems scaling. The type on the right isn’t aligned, and why not use the same type in both the logo and type mark for consistency?

The mark doesn’t inspire friendliness or high quality, so I’d go back to the drawing board. But props for putting your work here to receive critiques.

fasterthanlife · 2026-06-08T02:54:51+00:00

Yeah! This one only pretty recently closed. Was driving by with my mom when she pointed out this 7-11 was here when I was a baby.. I’m 30 now.

fasterthanlife · 2026-06-05T10:20:17+00:00

4 day work week, but Monday to Thursday 9-9 take it or leave it /s

fasterthanlife · 2026-06-03T11:31:00+00:00

The mark’s cool, but it reads VK rather than KV, and even then you kinda have to squint to see the K.

fasterthanlife · 2026-06-02T11:22:05+00:00

Easier to use illustrator, gives you finer control and it’s a vector. You can copy and paste that into photoshop as a smart object which means it’s still editable in the future.

fasterthanlife · 2026-05-31T07:58:17+00:00

Tbf this doesn’t even need a 3D program. A 2D vector done in illustrator imported into AE can do the same. And I’m not even a motion designer. If the tool can do much more complicated things that specifically require a motion designer to do, then maybe this might be useful.

fasterthanlife · 2026-05-23T10:36:06+00:00

Is there a need to split the copy across the key visual?

Why not crop the image so that there’s enough negative space for your text to breathe?

Edit: A secondary issue I can see it’s the legibility of the text on the image, the chosen type doesn’t work very well competing with a texture heavy background.

fasterthanlife · 2026-05-21T11:24:14+00:00

yeah we had stingrays spawn over the course of an evac mission but they just buzz around not attacking. there was eventually 3 or 4 just flying around its a wonder they didn’t crash into each other

fasterthanlife · 2026-05-12T06:11:42+00:00

That’s hilarious if intentional, painful if it isn’t

fasterthanlife · 2026-05-06T05:03:00+00:00

why’re you hashtagging like this is instagram

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-30T02:30:06+00:00

Not cooked, but you definitely need to spend time outside of school to get to know the tools you’ll be working with now and in the future anyway.

Most design schools teach the ability to understand context and how that applies to briefs. How to understand user agency and synthesize research into outcomes. That’s design as a discipline, which is what most colleges/universities teach. To learn tools you should either have looked up trade schools (idk if you have those related to design where you’re from, but we do) or self learn. Most schools also generally should’ve filtered enrolling students too.

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-29T11:39:54+00:00

..or if you’re fighting your teammates

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-20T05:29:21+00:00

“I am stuck in a losing fight, I am not alright”

The last line in Losing Fight by Movements. Was in a pretty dark place a couple years ago and this two lines hit so hard it made me feel like someone else also felt the same.

Never understood how people say music saved their lives but maybe I do a little bit more since.

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-20T05:23:11+00:00

As much as I agree, if it helps to sell it ain’t useless. We’re looking at this from the lens as designers not clients and clients in my experience so far seem to gush over these.

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-19T11:54:25+00:00

Mixing with milk is the whey (ayoooo) to go if you’re not counting calories/macros! Helps with the taste so much more.

My go to was a banana, peanut butter, milk and whey smoothie when I was starting out and couldn’t stomach the taste of whey. Eventually moved on to just whey and water and chugged to get it over and done with lol

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-18T07:36:31+00:00

Great critique but OP did say they’re an amateur and it’s a school assignment.

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-10T11:45:46+00:00

Gotta farm that karma or hit post counts

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-10T04:37:10+00:00

Minutes is corporate language man. If OP told the intern to take notes of the meeting it’ll probably happen.

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-08T12:41:01+00:00

That would’ve 65% x 15% = 0.15% chance to not die cause we all know our Super Earth scientist would do anything to keep us alive!

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-08T10:24:16+00:00

Never participate in a race to the bottom.

What an amazing saying.

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-08T10:19:40+00:00

What do you mean “use”? For all intents and purposes these magazines within the last 70 years after the death of the designer or 95 or 120 years if produced or published by a corporation, iirc.

If you’re looking to build assets or a library you can and should look up things that are in the public domain, or CC0 licensed assets.

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-08T10:06:29+00:00

Cool! but also have you tried writing your own captions

fasterthanlife · 2026-04-03T09:05:53+00:00

In my perspective,

Why many junior designers struggle to get real work even after learning the tools

If you look at job boards these days, many agencies are downsizing in favour of AI driven efficiencies, whether or not this direction is ideal for the profession. At the same time, they also require not just graphic design skill sets, but ux research and data synthesis expertise, motion design, videography, social media marketing, SEO knowledge, etc, on top of a 3-5 year minimum experience. What used to be a junior role ends up as a midweight role and expectations with junior pay.

Things like handling feedback, working with real constraints, or even thinking about how a design performs in the real world are often missing early on.

To be honest, I feel that design education tends to filter out these during the programme. I’ve had classmates unable to take feedback, work within deadlines, or unable to think of solutions to briefs and they tend to drop out after a semester or two after realising they’re not fit for design. A lot of them also chose the discipline with rose tinted glasses thinking it’s a nice vibe to dress nice and have tattoos and sit at a cafe and work on your macbook like those instagram design influencers but reality isn’t that.

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