Why do you design?
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- babaganush0
1. To truly learn broad principles, history and a holistic grounding that I perceived would stand be in good stead as a designer with purpose.
2. To dive straight into design, we didn't we had a broad starting base - which was the best foundation (although frustrating at the time).
3. ' design' is undervalued. True design is and always has been crucially important. I think we should value design education and fair play to self-taught designers but I think we should try to 'qualify' designers akin to architects. The accessibility of technology has meant we are truly seeing the devaluation of 'design' as we compete with clients' children doing logotypes and designers need to justify themselves amidst a barrage of crowdsourcing etc. Design education should be seen as something to be proud of, an achievement and a rite of passage.
4. Conversely I wouldn't make entering design easier in principle. Financially it SHOULD be accessible to all, but I think it should almost act as a kind of scholarship so that the truly committed can pursue their dreams and benefit. Only by perhaps doing this can we try to stem the disrespect from clients and in some respects creative industries at large with regards to the value of design, designers and codes of practice associated with the profession (as much of it really isn't currently a profession due to the blurring of what qualifies someone to be a designer). If you're gifted and committed and hungry for it, you should be a designer - if you want to sit and push pixels about because it seems like a laugh or a bit of extra cash, you shouldn't, any more than you shouldn't be a dentist because messing with teeth looks like a gas.None of this will happen...