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Design and illustration seemed to be converging throughout 2006 and 2007, due in part to the increased flexibility given to designers who were previously to be found only in page layout apps and dabbling lightly in a vector package to create a logo design. During that perceived convergence it became difficult to know if one was a designer, or an illustrator. I think this was to the detriment of both disciplines in hindesight. Design became florid, unstructured, overly concerned with decoration and frivolous detail. Illustrators became too generic, too computerised, and far removed from the process of making marks with real meaning.
Suddenly now though, as I peruse the online portfolios of various designers and illustrators, its seems really obvious once more that designers are designers... restraint and understatement are their watchwords, and illustrators are once more illustrators, with personality and expression as their watchwords.
Designers: Rigour, Modernism
Illustrators: Fluidity, VernacularismDesigners: Black, Shiney
Illustrators: Taupe, MuckyDesigners: Severe, Authoritarian
Illustrators: Halfwitted, DissentingDesigners: Uniform, Oppresive
Illustratiors: Tramps, DepressedDesigners: Purists, Perfectionist
Illustrators: Ramblists, ScatterbrainsDesigners: Power, Success
Illustrators: Flowers, Lying Down.Designers: Kraftwerk, Brian Eno
Illustrators: The Levellers, Digereedoos.etc.
- such a lazy and shallow way to look at the world._salisae_
- WHAAAAT? I was just dicking around. I am the latter by the way, an illustrator. Do you have...Spookytim
- ... a CRUSH on me Salisae? Huh? do ya? DOO YA?
HUH???Spookytim - are you also of the mind that dogs with pointed ears are mean and dogs with rounded ears are nice?_salisae_
- i meant floppy .. not rounded. floppy long book-markish ears_salisae_
- whoa********