Is this design?
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- kld0
Thanks, yeah I did all the layout, design, material selection, and typography. Then a signage fabricator did the production and hanging. There was two separate donor walls for each campus of the school with different specs. The idea was screenprinted type on glass so it could be updated with current donors annually.
Its student work but I did everything, including pitching to the deans of design and architecture.
I did my internship at school in a program called CCAC sputnik, a student design team doing the colleges design work.
- welded0
I'm totally going to rip that. Look for the accusatory thread in a week or so.
- Gorbie0
no... it's fashion design, interior design, textile design, styling, photography, and graphic design.
- designerror0
Is this design?
define design before asking the question, then you will have your answer
- rise0
You can art direct photos, and just make the photographer take your shot,
I've styled, directed, and "lit" models for shoots.
- fate_redux0
I think with something so obviously banal ("Ok, look brooding and elitist! Like all those other ads!") whatever "designer" slapped that logo on there shouldn't be taking credit for it. Because a monkey could do it.
If you're getting into /real/ conceptual work when directing photography, that is a different story. That photo, and the thousands others like it, are bullshit. There is no meaning in them, and the logo slapped on there seems glib.
- anon0
god, some designers are just too stupid.
- rise0
generally, the art director comes up with the concept direction piece how the models look and our facing and interacting with the camera, and then goes over that with the photographer.
Theres more to that ad then just snapping a picture and slapping a logo on it.
- designerror0
could you have done it?
just because it's simple, doesn't mean it took two minutes to make
- rise0
- fate_redux0
designerror, besides hiring a Photography and some models, what particularly do you think is the least bit of a challenge in that ad I posted? It is incredibly boring and uninteresting.
And don't give me some "It's ironically cliched, you don't get it!" It is, what it is. A photo like a million others and a logo on top. And it is a huge trend.
- rise0
"just because it's simple, doesn't mean it took two minutes to make"
I wish I had this reoccuring voice screaming out everytime I'm in a meeting.
- fate_redux0
Oh, I'm sure the bullshit they fed the client to convince them this was "unique" and "growing the brand" took ages to prepare. Good bullshit for bad execution, especially something as boring as this, can take a long time to script. I bet it was pages of malarky.
- rise0
lol, obviously you dont understand fashion ads...
They aren't about design, they are about the clothing and the image the photography portrays...
If you cover it with bananas & nuts it takes away from the overall image of the brand.
- sandpipe0
kid's talk here
- stem0
In valid
...at the Sainsbury's corral (Supermarket).
Yesterday the aisles were infested with light tan slacks and thin v-neck pullovers as the grey pound came to spend. All big fleshy ears and hands.
Ponderous as elephants. a proliferation too of those grim flesh coloured (that looks like no flesh I know, save maybe a corpse's scrotum) hearing aids that loop over the lobe with a clear acrylic tube that only serves to magnify hair and wax deposits.
Why are disability aids so crap?
Why not just make them look like blue tooth head sets rather than these 'striving to be discrete and achingly obvious because of it, pieces of garbage?
Protective hats for epileptic children are the worst offenders of all.
Timmeah!!! hats.
The infants got enough problems in their life with the illness and other kids innate ability to take the piss without having to make them look like the Edwardian invalid.
Sadly, the money and 'kudos' is in doing stuff like these Bally ads, issues like this tend to get neglected as we all strive to get our work into Wallpaper* magazine.
Design?, Styling? call it what you like, it ain't helping these people!
*rant over...
- fate_redux0
I thought Mercier just turned those Photos into a site, MrDinky? Or was he in charge of that was well?
- BrigadeDesigns0
Technically, the photos aren't bad, and as was already mentioned, the shot was likely directed and set up beyond a photogrpaher's perview.
My beef with it is the logo-- it says absolutely nothing beyond "hey, I have no imagination, so I'm gonna use courier."
Frankly, it deosn't suit the image, and it's likely it doesn't suit the product.
That's the real cop-out here.
- skt0