Hillman's Carson Interview.
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I agree very much with scarabin had to say in thread no. 2.
A bit of the work from Raygun appealed to me from an artistic perspective, but to me thats all I see his work as, and I have never really appreciated it as graphic design. *gulp*
The whole self indulgent thing dosn't really fit my own definition of graphic design I guess. To me it is just another aesthetic, which I think there is too much of today. Hate to pick on people, but for instance Chuck aka Nopattern, in much the same way has a certain aesthetic. From my own view on design I just cannot understand why a design for someone else or about something else should be self-indulgent, to me that would just confuse the overall message, which I guess is where his whole take on subjectivity comes in, and conflicts with my thinking where design should be objective.
In closing, not a fan of Carson at all, and after seeing him at FITC, little things bugged me that he said, for instance, the brochure for schedule of the event had two distant portions of the schedule across a big fold out spread. The schedule could have easily been positioned so that the fold went right between them, yet it wasn't, easy thing to avoid, and after he heard people commenting on it, he was like "Who cares that the fold is not in the middle etc etc etc"
Maybe some people are like that but I don't know to me that just seems careless, why have a fold going through text that people are going to read if you don't have to?