Which designers would you...
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- breadlegz
.. like to know more about and know what they do day to day?
I've been interviewing a load of them here:
- tank027
Not the designers, but the person behind them. Also been interviewing alot of them, Not so much graphic designers though, the onese we interviewed got kicked because of their bloated ego and text corrections ;)
- hans_glib4
i find other designers really uninteresting. i know how they think, what they're likely to be into, etc . we're such an introspective self-absorbed profession.
at college one tutor used to urge us to make friends outside college and the art world to help keep a broad horizon. he was/is right.
- GeorgesII-1
oooooh I was going to write a bitter message about how I rather chill with anyone involved in design than people doing design. because blah blah blah,
but to be honest, I just don't hang out with designers anymore I don't know why, but around 3 years ago, I started not going to all those ADC, Design parties, anymore, it was such a breath of fresh air to not hear the same stale convos..
- instead QBN....fruitsalad
- Yeah, Designers are horrible people when you speak to them as Designers.mekk
- spend an entire day in between construction workers and metal welder, none of them were thinking they were revolutionizing the world, yet their work is a lotGeorgesII
- more "useful", now I spent 10 min with the social media team and want to gouge my eyes out, all of them are non stop whining about this and that, sighGeorgesII
- lol at social media team being designers. they're just wannabe creative wankstainshans_glib
- Why all the downvotes, I'm with you on this one.Maaku
- < why I'm hardly even on design forums these daysPeter
- sted0
fix the og:image
- canoe0
I never really got along with anyone at work besides the Sr writers... the designers were so competitive, snarky and unsupportive... nobody wanted to be friends they just wanted to out wit each other... Fuck you.
- breadlegz0
I probably should have expected some of these comments...
- monNom0
I may be out of touch, but I have no idea who most of these people are. You should add a little bio or title to your index of interviews so that people like me have a sense of where these designers are coming from.
Something like:
Industry, Role and Why are they interesting?As far as recommendations: I like to hear about other types of design beyond graphic design. That Netflix Abstract show has a pretty good cross-section of creative industries.
- And salaries! we want the figures.fruitsalad
- Good idea, thank you.breadlegz
- that show is terribledoesnotexist
- bainbridge0
- Because it has yellow in it?breadlegz
- yes. because yellow.doesnotexist
- bainbridge0
Tell me something you read that inspired you or a vacation that inspired you, don't tell me that you read a brief and use your creative skills to make another boring logo.
Type designers are boring, web designers are nerds, average graphic designers are boring nerds.
- breadlegz0
@bainbridge - Good idea, i'll put some more inspired questions into the mix.
I have tried to focus initially on freelancers so i've been asking them how they got going and how they get work. I assume that's useful to other freelancers.
- doesnotexist0
don't know any of those names
interview non creatives
i'm a freelancer and i don't care what other freelancers do and wouldn't read their interview
interview the local bodega guy
- nyc ups/fedex guys are the most interesting people i've metdoesnotexist
- ...bartenders...anyo... at milanosdoesnotexist
- breadlegz0
"i'm a freelancer and i don't care what other freelancers do and wouldn't read their interview"
Does it help to know how they've got clients in the past or is that of no interest?
- ...maybe
as long as they don't tell me to do adsdoesnotexist
- ...maybe
- Beeswax0
99U conference going live right now if you're interested.
- breadlegz1
I managed to get Debbie Millman on. So now there's people you heard of on there as well ...
- trooperbill2
met ian brody at a tDR event a while back...a hero while i was a student... he was a bit of an arse tbh
- Neville?fadein11
- derp yep sorry neville (thinking of ian anderson at the same time)trooperbill
- He's on my radar.breadlegz