How come most designers suck?

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  • ukit0

    I'm not sure postmodernism has even had as great of an influence on graphic design the way it has other forms of art, since a lot of forms of GD are utilitarian. It's easy for an installation to be postmodern, but not so much a street sign. When I was in college it seemed like maybe it was - some of my professors were from the Cranbrook program and very much practicing that deconstructionist approach you would associate with people like David Carson - but once that trend passed graphic design kind of rejected the overkill of that approach and more or less returned to a modernist approach. Maybe it just shows the elements of these academic concepts to describe all of what is happening in art, design, etc.

    • er...shows the limits ratherukit
    • True, but modernism in graphic design was just a trend in the same way...fresnobob

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