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- johndiggity0
my personal feelings with regard to trends is that it is a designer's nature to question and ultimately reject them. we wouldn't be doing our job to the fullest if we took on a client who wanted a certain look on his product/logo/site/whatever and blindly followed.
of course there can't be a complete disconnect, we have all experienced this with some clients. there is an equilibrium somewhere between the next and the now and we struggle trying to find it, and then we struggle more to convince a client to adopt it.
i think most of us taste wise are kind of out of the loop of everyday culture. we make fun of a lot of mass produced fashions and grafitti styling on comedy central, ashlee simpson and whatnot, but like i said, that's our nature. and unfortunately (maybe fortunately though) designers are almost never the target market.