Design is stupid
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- Chimp0
form follows function
- winter0
that was an ironical post.
- Bozilla0
If design became all about the money (I've never looked at it as art or shit like that), it has become just a job and nothing else. I'm sick and tired of people, "living" design lifestyle and all the BS. That is exactly why a design community can't fuc*king charge universal/higher fees for it's services, because everyone "lives as a designer" and not as a businessman. Nobody in today's world cares about art that much any more. It's all about SELL SELL SELL, and I have nothing against that, unfortunately majority of so-called designers today really doesn't get this profession seriously. It's, you either adopt or you live a renegade art life (like it was before). There's no middle ground. I think everything became so unprofessional with designers and that's why we sometimes have problems justifying our work. I don't care if I don't make a masterpiece just as long all of my invoices are paid and my client makes money so they can recommend me. It's business.
It might sound shallow, but it's reality.
- michaelx30
design = wit
- dead0
yeh cinder! :)
- Kuz0
Stupidist thread ever. Seriously. What a redundant statement. There's a million ways u cuda expressed ur grievances; instead of these blanket generalisations about "design". Guess u just wanted to provoke people. Anyway, seems to me u're obsessed with semantics. Get rid of the word and be free my son!
- winter0
ok. i'll try.
- vespa0
I haven't read this whole thread but it seems like people who hate design shouldn't be doing it. No one has a gun to your head. You aren't being forced to work in a sweatshop like so many less fortunate people who are just as worthy of good jobs as you and I.
Bozilla, my job is nothing like what you've described. I make a decent living, work with people whose company and way of thinking inspires me, solve problems, user-test my design decisions, but I also get to solve fun problems like how to make something entertaining. I'm not making art, i'm designing, and I love it.
- winter0
jeesus... what a mess
no one here hates design, btw.
peace. forget about it.
- Kuz0
aww
- swollenelbow0
winter you jack-ho, look what you did...and all for nothing...
- Rand0
some people call that trolling, but it's not- a provocative comment you don't necessarily believe, or only half believe, put out to stimulate reaction, is a good thing
- winter0
just opinion. it's funny how opinions can still be uncomfortable when it goes against the common accepted thing, hey?
- swollenelbow0
your opinion was mush, sorry, but it fixed nothing and just made people say the words "design is" alot.
- Kuz0
Not your opinion i had a problem with, but the premise. Seemed kinda naive to me. Anway, like Rand said, good to get people talking; even if it's only to attack u and try and put u straight.
- winter0
yes. sorry. i realise now i was posting my thoughts rather than anything specific. something annoying. not intended.
forums are wicked, because you are not talking to people phisically, so a lot of filters are off.
*off
- fifty500
I think this thread was a good thing, because it seems like nowadays people are forgetting what design really means to them. It's always good to debate a subject of any sort, especially this one since we are (hopefully) all designers here so we can all benefit from hearing all opinions.
Hopefully this thread made people realize what design really means to them. Kudos to Winter on a stimulating thread.
- greg0
computers
- swollenelbow0
porno.
- phist0
mid-life design crisis?