Acute Design

This MetaFilter link to a design blogger admitting to his "Design Disease" inspired me to confess my own Degenerative Design-itis...

Two of my favorite colors are Huckleberry Hound Blue and Jinks the Cat Orange.

I tend to urn up my nose at blogs with non-fluid columns (which is why I haven't been able to get into Vox more).

I have a weakness for the sickeningly-sweet (to most people) Cherry Coca-Cola, but I gave it up when the can design changed to something very different from Coca Cola Classic. Now that it resembles Regular Coke again, I'm hooked again.

I have dreamed of starting a company named "DY Computers" and using the HP logo upside down as its trademark.

Countrywide's logo from 20 years ago helped inspire me to apply for a job there.

Ever since the Cold War, I've felt nervous about being inside a building with the Target Logo.
 
I have long been obsessed with the Bookman font (mostly for the italic with the big 'swash' on the lower-case W). I have totally way too many fonts on my computer, including a wide collection of fonts from TV logos (yes, all the Star Trek fonts, Klingon included), twenty-some comic strip fonts, and several variations of Uncial, the font used by the city of San Luis Obispo on its street signs. And I once e-mailed a blogger solely to ask her what the font on her logo was.

I have a big striped comforter with dimensions that are almost perfectly square, but I don't cover myself with it unless it is aligned with the stripes going head-to-foot. (Vertical stripes are slimming, right? I want to lose weight in my sleep).

And I curse Kraft every time I go down the dressings aisle for putting their Mayo in the cool-looking squared-off plastic jars but NOT my spread-of-choice, Miracle Whip.