Can Designer change the world?
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- sexypixel0
maybe that is good design, when people dont notice it... my head hurts
- ********0
graphic design is a lot involved with people wanting to change the world (politically)..
peace symbol: universal graphic.
- dstlb0
Graphic design communicates ideas, concepts, messages and general bullshit to people everyday. People react to it without needing to know it's graphic design, the fact they have a reaction to things they see means design changes the world.
Who gives a shit if they don't know what the definition of what they're looking at is? That's missing the point.
- sexypixel0
true. but doesnt graphic design just help ideas along, as apposed to actually changing anything.
- ********0
exactly.
good (graphic)design serves it's purpose to communicate... not to explain itself, ofcourse.
- zento20
some designers change the world, some dont
how about you?
- sexypixel0
but graphic design communicates someone elses message, in the political/corporate sense. no?
- unknown0
i dont.
- unknown0
was RE: zento btw.
- ********0
some are more autonomical..
don't call it art! i hear you! it's often a form of communication, as straightforward as you may find in designing someone else's message.
side-projects may change the world, or at least a tiny bit of it, when the graphic designer does an excellent job at it.
photograph of Che Guevara made to a world famous stencil, for instance?
- sexypixel0
sorry, ive gone off on some crazy tangent.
- sexypixel0
But the stencil of Che Guevara was made famous by Che Guevara, not the artist. The artist helped, but without Che Guevara it was nothing.
I suppose what Im trying to say is that graphic design helps the changers of the world to change the world, as apposed to actually changing it by itself. A cog in the wheel.
- ptrdo0
more like a stick in the spokes, or gum on the shoe.
- Delvetica0
We live and breathe design, but we can't change them at all.
- unknown0
thats a stupid question.
- unfittoprint0
architecture can.
- unknown0
who designed the peace symbol?
- bull0
I'd say that the majority of design helps the world to stay the same.
The world's a very diverse place, but take our nicely developed society as an example. Our world consists of constantly presenting the consumer with the 'new', which is then assimilated and subsequently discredited by socitey, necessitating the emergence of the new 'new'.
The way design is approached, particularly graphic design, only serves to grease the wheel s of that machine. Design beyond function is a completely unecessary process, but esential in order to sustain the seasonal assimilation. Basically, one of the foundations of the philiosophy of specialisation within specialization of postmodern western society.
Of course, you could go back to ye oldern days, birth of the notion of genius, blah blah blah blah, the quest to get as close to God as possible via the aquisition of the works of someone who already holds that position blah blah . . . .
Once again I've explained myself very poorly, but there it is
Before you ask, yes I have got my head up my arse. Where else are you going to see design like that?
- sexypixel0
bull, your post makes me dizzy