Sometimes it seems that graphic designers are a serious lot. After all, it is not the normal person who becomes enraged at the use of papyrus as the subtitle font in Avatar. But to prove that designers and design can be funny I present these following clips dealing with design, adverting and worst of all Comic Sans.

101 Photoshop Tips in 5 minutes by Deke McClelland. Funny, yet helpful.

You Suck at Photoshop: Very crass, but very, very funny! You must watch both seasons of it, well worth it. As a bonus it has some decent tips for Photoshop. Linked below is the first episode, and for poor Danny Boyle, it all goes down hill from here.

John Stossel from 20/20 discussing graphic design, his advice on one particular typeface is illuminating:

Movie Poster Designer: As some one who worked with film posters for several years, this isn’t that far off the mark. From the humor site, Funny or Die.

Font Conference: A classic from the humor site College Humor.

Font Fight: A sequel of sorts of Font Conference. I love it when Helvetica goes after it’s rip off, Arial:

Life of a graphic designer, everything’s better with a little cute kid. From Canadian Designer “yoshbox” of Q Graphique.

Designing the Stop Sign by Committee. I think every designer’s felt this way at one time or another.

How NOT to use PowerPoint. A hilarious, and true video on poor slide preparation. Life After Death PowerPoint from EMT Media on Vimeo.

Life After Death PowerPoint from EMT Media on Vimeo.

OGD: Original Design Gangsta

Focus Testing the Apple “Big Brother Ad” Opening video to the Hatch Award 2007 (an ad agency award), This is an actual focus group testing of the 1984 ad. This is the lowest common denominator ladies & gentlemen.

A Few Good Creative Men: A design related mash up of the classic courtroom scene from A Few Good Men.

Only the Best Ideas Win What happens to all those ideas after the are born… literally born in this case.

Vendor Client Relationships in the Real World Pretty funny take on this sensitive topic.

Last, but not least… What Happens When your Father is a Graphic Designer A classic old video, though why Comic Sans at the beginning? A bit suspect for the premise I’d say.