Design: what's the point?
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i like to think i make the world a tiny bit nicer looking in my own way....simplistic enough, but i enjoy it. regardless of what some may think, it's not trivial at all.....people react in an emotional way to good design. Take something like, fr instance....paint can labels......i saw one a few years back that won some awards...it was gorgeous....i like to think that whomever designed that probably made a lot of people at the paint company happy....the label was so nice, i wouldn't be surprised if it helped move more paint off the shelves...which in turn made the company money....which helped the people that work their buy christmas presents for their kids....
all these things are connected....
simplistic?..yeah..ok...but still valid i think....
no matter how you slice it, or how you want to describe it, people have made art since the dawn of time...art moves us....it makes us think....and at it's best...design is beautiful art....
its not just 'a logo'....its a little piece of art someone thought about and worked carefully on to make it the best that they could...
and frankly...its a lot of fun....
there are a whole lot worse things one could do with their lives....
as far as i'm concerned, this is probably one of the best ways to make a living...be creative all day...play on a nice mac....make websites, print ads, posters, online apps, logos, packaging....
compare that to the poor schlep that is working retail all day and is constantly watching the clock....or the guy in a suit in an office somewhere that can't wait for the weekend to take him away from the drudgery...not sure about some of you..but i look forward to work each day...i'm lucky enough to work at a place with a lot of decent people, some unbelievable clients, and well...lol...i'm the creative director, so i get a fair bit of leeway in all the creative decisions....
this career has paid for my house, my car, its putting food on the table, and i honestly can't complain....
like many of you (aside from possibly bonecrusher) i knew growing up i wanted to do this....all my life the only thing i was truly good at was art...was practically born being able to draw etc..had a good imagination....always new i was going to do something with art as a career....
then, one day around the age of 15 or so, i was in business class, and we saw a doc on Chiat Day.....watched how they came up with commercials like apple - 1984...stuff like that....Lee Clow, etc....these dudes looked like wigged out hippies running around having the time of their lives...i knew in that second that THIS is what i was born to do....and although i haven't worked at an agency in the last decade (made the switch to a consulting firm and became their CD a long time ago) its pretty much the same work as i did in agencies...and its awesome....
so there...it may not be as important in the grand scheme of things as being a doctor...but thats ok.....let someone else be a doctor....let someone else be a professor (my brother in law is a prof, and he seems to like it just fine...so good for him, says I ) for me...design is something i absolutely enjoy....and like a lot of you here (and lets face it, I've been here on QBN/NT for about a decade or more) I couldn't imagine doing anything else....
sorry for the long post ;)
cheers
ex