How come most designers suck?
How come most designers suck?
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Gramme, he does have a point though. Symbols don't exist within themselves. They are only defined by their relationships with other ideas, thoughts, and symbols. Very Baudrillard, but it makes sense.
For instance, the color red or the color blue have many preconceived values and notions and ideas placed upon them.
In more practical terms, that means a logo has to work well with all the other materials, or else it fails at its job. And the reverse, which I'm sure we've all experienced....a client that supplies us with his shitty, terrible logo that we have to try to design around, like some albatross around the neck of our designs.
- I agree, especially with the notion that a logo is only as good as the way it's used.gramme
- i.e., the things that surround it, the way it's reproduced, etc.gramme
- But isn't a well-designed logo always driven by ideas? So a logo means something, because it's based on research and thinking.gramme
- and thinking.gramme
- But I agree 100% that logos are useless in a vacuum.gramme