How come most designers suck?
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- neue75_bold0
in my experience it's not so much as an individual problem of the graphic designer per say, but rather one with the industry as a whole.. too many designers are caught up wholly in the pursuit of making something look good and function well, on the best of occasions it's actually about communication... Most of us are still just trying to make "good design" in order to cause an emotional result which is usually a purchase... At the end of the day, you must really get off on manipulating people for someone else's gain, or you just have your head so far up your ass, your just concerned about creating something nice, maybe with a clever angle that will end up in your folio...
But for most of us what other option is there? Unless we're running our own practices, most of us cannot possibly try to convince a client that this is a bullshit and archaic way to think and work.
Most designers still believe a logo on it's own needs to communicate something, which just isn't even logical, but it's been so engrained into our logic it takes a long time to try and snap out of it...