Design is stupid
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- johndiggity0
I don't think design is art, or a sub-product, rather I think design is everthing art isn't. Design is science, law, mathematics, politics. Art is expression by an individual. Design should by nature be anonomous, the voice of whatever is being designed should be the only one heard, not the designer's voice. It's about making whatever the target or your actions as a designer useful. But that is the Modernist theory of design, pushing towards some type of utopianism where there is a perfect typeface and everyone uses it to simplify the dissmeniation of the information we are bombarded with on an everyday level. Design has given way to advertising, which in turn has given way to branding, which finds us immeresed in theis corporate culture, where McDonalds, Wal Mart, and Starbucks pervade our everyway of life.
But like I said earlier, we are still making literature for worship, and it is a reflection of our times, whereas in the 1600's it was spreading religion and getting money to the church, nowadays, Starbucks charges $8 for water soaked in beans.