While moving my office (a project comparable to an Indiana Jones archeological dig) it occurred to me that I might be a Designosaur.Now, the Urban Dictionary defines a Designosaur as, “A graphic designer who is behind the times in learning the latest technology. An outmoded artist or designer on the way to being extinct.” But I don’t buy it.To me a designosaur is a designer who traces his roots back to the pre-digital era, the days of T-squares, stat cameras and dry-transfer lettering.Sure a lot of Designosaurs have fossilized but some of us have, like T-Rex becoming a chicken, evolved to thrive in the digital age. With that definition in mind…

You might be a Designosaur if you:

1. Wear your X-acto scars with pride.
2. Own a set of technical pens. Extra points if they work
3. Own pencils that aren’t #2s or, for that matter, have ever used a #2 for something other than standardized testing.
4. Have a drafting table which functions as anything other than just another horizontal surface.
5. Own a blue pencil.
6. Ever made one letter out of another because you’d used up every “r” on your sheet of Letraset.
7. Used to consider a one-week turn-around a “rush job.”
8. Hear the phrase “bikini waxing” and think of doing paste up on tourism ads.
9. Have discussed starting a graphic design history museum with the inventory of your storage closet. Exhibits would include:
   • Technical Pens
   • T-square
   • Parallel Rule
   • 45 degree and 30/60/90 degree triangles
   • French and flexible curves
   • Sizing wheel
   • Rubylith
   • Dry transfer (rub off) lettering (complete with burnishing tool)
10. Know that Pink Pear is not a sixties rock band.