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- ian000
@ cannonball1978. I agree wholeheartedly that the discipline is already watered down and that design shit talking is laughably out of control. All the more reason to draw clear boundaries around our own version of it rather than redefine it. Perhaps I am overly idealistic, but I care about our agency. It seems to me that whatever you do, whether you are conscious of it or not, has an impact. So why not own it? Why not understand the potential and the limits of our own particular area of expertise both in production and criticism?
- 20020
As a designer, you will always be grabbed by the balls. Either by clients or peers.
Crit is double edged. You may get a good perspective or it will form your style. The key is to take crit and form your own style.
Designers usually have it or they dont. Most of us sit in between the two in a bell curved world. You can't teach someone design. You can also bring a designer out of them.
- 20020
wizbang all the way
- monospaced0
ghetto snack
- 20020
someone well known told me this once
"you can talk about design when you are good at it"
- futuremongolian0
I've been a professional designer since I was 8 years old, and yes, the rhetoric has decline somewhat over the past decade. I blame teh blogs.