U Aren't That Special
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- Peter0
Meh.
I enjoy "articles" by...whomever he is, pictured below... and people like him where you can tell by the vocabulary just how insightful things are going to get.
With words like "awesome" you know you got yourself a thinking man with a serious, sharp and staggering message that will pierce the heart of your conscience.
Or stab you repeatedly in your eyes, in this case.
There's just something about the wining, the apologies and the self entitlement that keeps me skimming. The reading is like passing a car crash where you just can't help to look at the gore smeared over the sidewalk. It aint pretty. You bless you have nothing to do with the accident, but man does it draw you in.
Examples starts at column one.
"In a great moment of success for a fellow designer we find ourselves trolling and upset about something very insignificant. In fact, it’s meaningless. Next week we’ll find another “squirrel” and be distracted by that. Meanwhile, historic things like WikiLeaks and an uprising in Egypt go on in the background."
Come now. You're not your work. Or, at least most people are not.
Comparing work with, dude like "historic things" and stuff, is just daft. You can leak, you can protest, all while you're being a designer.
Doesn't even have to be design. You can work with anything, and feel just as passionate (or not) about it to praise even the most pedestrian of accomplishments by it. Many do.
If anything: everyone is not special.
Then there was other nuggets of insights like this one:
"Creativity isn’t ours. Just because you can draw better, doesn’t make you a better thinker."
Who claims such a thing?
"Design isn’t just aesthetics, it’s more than that."
Who've claimed otherwise, gaaaaaah!
"Creativity isn’t always the result of skill of someone gifted with it. It also isn’t something just anyone can learn in a short time. It’s somewhere in between."
Someone...stab me in my eyes. Please stab me in my eyes. Can't take this sophomoric ramblings no more.
"I’m not about to define design here, that’s another article for another time. However as a designer I think we can agree that we have to abide by certain principles/rules in order to create great design"
Someone hand me a gun.
...and that's where I stopped reading.
All he could have said were designers are usually a bunch of whiny babies and I'd agree. In essence his writing said, nay, proved just that. But it could have been much less painful.
- Ironic. Mehmonospaced
- I too petered out after just a few paragraphsmanonthestreet
- i find myself skimming over this post just the same as I skimmed the article, maybe we all are too impatienteighteen
- @ manonthestreet
ziiiiingPeter