R.I.P. Design
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Why do people live in some fantasy world where they think that in the past ALL design was artistic and perfectly formed?
I think it's due in part to the design history books. We all look back at design's past and all we see is Eames chairs and Paul Rand identities. We forget that while all the great work was being done, there were still 1000s of shoddy pieces being knocked out.
For every eames chair there were 100s of uncomfortable horrible chairs. Looking forward to now, we have the joy of Aeron chairs which some would say, functionally are a great improvement on previous chair designs.Not all printers were creating beautiful letterpressed hand bound books, some were churning out horribly designed flyers etc, even back then.
As an example look back at old Newspaper design, below is a the cover from the Times on this day in 1960, then compare it to moden newspaper design.
There is a lot of great design around today, and it's more accesible than ever. There will always be people on the periphery, and to a certain extent desktop publishing has made this more true of the design world.
But don't look back on design history with rose tinted glasses, don't forget the shoddy hacks were around back then too, selling the equivilent of $5 logos etc.- *nods head... huffs glue,********
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