Are you colorblind?
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"My color blindness has allowed me to think more broadly about the work we create. Will a tint of red make anyone notice but the audience of ourselves? Sometimes I think we lose that kind of perspective. Because in the end our work is for the public to understand and enjoy. Not the graphic designer peanut gallery.
Maybe it is only a case of struggling with a sense of self importance. Isn't that the never ending question: does design matter? Other fields don't have these questions. I have never heard someone ask "does medicine matter?", "does law matter?" And other creative fields matter in ways that design can't. Architecture, for example, provides essential shelter. If I had a 40% deficiency in, say, angles, then my building would be unsound and dangerous. I would have failed. But a poster campaign with a slightly "off" red isn't going to be deemed a problem in the public's eye, only in our own tortured minds.
Maybe our day of detail liberation is coming.
Do you see?"
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Amen!