Design Must Grow
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- fresnobob0
"the problem is that i come from a literary background..."
-WittThere is really no difference between literary and graphic works. Both are a method in which to convey ideas, etc. Both rely (in theory anyways) on a symbol or set of symbols to which some meaning is given, and taken. A word is just a set of marks to which one interprets sound to which a set of sounds are strung together to form a word, to which a meaning is given. A picture is simply set of marks which is a visual representation of some meaning. They both end in the same result. If you are complaining they are different, you are wrong.
However, that is not to say that they are completley the same either. The purpose of a piece of graphic design is to communicate to a broader audience. This is the difference between a piece of art and a piece of graphic design. Art , and literature, need not communicate anything, though it may. If you are having trouble with communication, then you have work ahead of you.
I do agree, though, that design, and society/culture in general must grow. Looking to the past, all the movments percieved as great had one thing in common, and that is that they had a purpose. Whether I feel they were right or wrong, what made them wonderful was their sense of purpose. It saddens me tody to see people looking to the past and copying it, but without the greater purpose. That or they make "cool," but extremely shallow and in the end self defeating form. There is nothing going on culture today. It is fake, shallow and superficial. I have not seen any worthy design work from this place in a long long while, and if Newstoday represents the greater design world, and the world in general, I am scared for us all. And on that note I say "Fuck graphic design," and hope for a change