“…I don't give a crap what other graphic designers like. It's not a metric that matters to me in musical taste. In fact, I probably have shared less in common with your average graphic designer than I do with a construction worker.” Chris Coyier · Shop Talk Show
Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · August 2026
Coyier is talking about music recommendation sites, and remembers a genre of them built around designers sharing what they listen to. The remark is his objection to professional identity being treated as a proxy for taste. He calls it an old rant of his a moment later.
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it up a little bit. Yeah,
a little swallowed up. And yeah, his brother has really great taste in music and was kind of, you know, I think before kids or whatever, did a bunch of people. I like
that. There used to be like a little too much of the like designers plus music. This is a site. If you're a graphic designer and you like music. And I always been like, I don't give a crap what other graphic designers like. It's not a metric that matters to me in musical taste. In fact, I probably have shared less in common with your average graphic designer than I do with a construction worker.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, that's an old rant of mine. I won't research, but this has no particular, it's just like people who like music, it looks like.
Yeah, yeah. Well, I think that's kind of anyway. Just join it. I think it's kind of, it's, it's beautiful to look at, but it's also just kind of like, oh, wow, I didn't know that album was, you know, where's
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