Design is stupid
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- zeroblade0
swollen... don't commit suicide.
- MrDinky0
design sucks when everything around you is design by someone.
dont you know that things come to form as they are growen from the trees and on the ground?
- swollenelbow0
after 60 reads i'm still confused as to what exactly winter is trying to get across, i mean i see all sides, but in the end, where are we? do you just question the hell out of yourself, what you do, how you think, what you think others think and just ponder on some stone about what design is and how you fit in?
sitting here in the dark in my office thinking of what UI i should design next, i can simply say i'm thinking about what instructions i was given to make it a good UI. follow what worked before, follow what people know and are familiar with.
i still don't get it...what are you trying to say? we are morons because we follow out bosses instructions?
i think in the end we are all shit, everything means nothing, and this is just some fish tank we are all in.
- zarayy0
It sounds to me like you have a lot to learn about design, winter.
- devaur0
im going to burn in hell now.
according to winter I have no content
- devaur0
name that content
- devaur0
the point is become a stock broker if you hate design so much.
- devaur0
design is life and life is design.
everything is design.
art is an expression.
without design the world would be nothing.
life is elsewhere.
absorb life and let it shine through your work.
yes i get caught up designing corporate mumbo jumbo.
but i also express my self in work at work and in my art at home.
- winter0
hhuhhuh. design is about design! that's precisely my point. it is not some pratical way of life.
i've been observing the way people are bound to this graphic world and i gather that there is some psychological transfer here.
LIFE IS ELSEWHERE.
design is just a synthetic way of making nice drawings and i'm just bothered the way people keep posting their problems as if design and life just got tangled by some whimsical godess.
and bothered the way design is full of fast comments about life and lifestyle (like epigrams) as if there is going to be some solution. there isn't really...
so... the point is why is this PVN looking like ICQ most of the time. why is design getting more and more related to the way-of-life rather by an exploration of the work itself?
i think these are essential questions to what we are all doing. eseential question to the work we should do in my op.
as NTB uses to say: "as you were."
- johndiggity0
I'm joking about the State thing obviously. it always makes me think of Nazi Germany. I think Hitler tried to design his version of the perfect society, controlling every aspect of life, architecture, art, music, what the people looked like etc... I guess design is about control on some level.
- kodap0
I guess you're all talking about "webdesign" and "graphic design"
*leaves thread
- kodap0
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- johndiggity0
Secede! Rise Up! Think about it. All comercials would be funny, all road signs would be legible and make sense. Disabled people would be able to lead as close to normal lives as possible. Good looking, well built automobiles. Of course Helvetica would be the State Typeface...
- zedvox0
are you crazy?? a country full of desingers wearing black all the time and talking like
"my sex life sucks.it is a design problem.must solve it."
- kodap0
design is all about projecting.
so when your thinking on putting in practice a project you already designed it.
- BonSeff0
some proof that controlling your message works
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/…
- stormzealot0
I'm with diggity
ou own country could be a very grand and beautiful thing
- johndiggity0
Let's start a designer's country.
- johndiggity0
The music example you used made of impromptu lines is more along the Dadaist theory of art as a question. Is it art? Maybe. Is it good art? Absolutely not. The greatest works of art were so great because they broke new boundaries and asked questions.
Design is not about asking questions, it's the answer to questions.
- winter0
Ortega Y Gasset was the most clever philos. of modern thought. he predicted this dumb TV culture where nothing really happens. he predicted that in about 15 years we woudl be talking about movie plotd like something written on a religious principle. he predicted that modern man would (by way of providing a medium culture to everyone) became mediocre itself.
this lack of reflection on our own actions is the thing that worries me. it's not about pixels. it's about the effect.
but maybe i'm just on a bad day. maybe i'm surfing too much to see snowboarding promoted as the new-u.
i'm tired of this get-used-to-the-way-it-works-and... IT IS WRONG.
be honest about it not to the point of just admitting it but to the point of getting some earnest progress out of this hard-work (not of this hardware).