Commercial Design
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- ER
I hear a LOT in these threads knocking down commercial design.
I'm starting to belive this is because not very many people can do it right.
"Fox and the Grapes"?
- Rementera0
uh. what other kind of design IS there? i want to start doing it if it exists.
- Mimio0
Save the sweeping statements until you're atleast a college grad.
- ER0
i see your point. for discusion sake lets asume that there are 2. only because this is the distintion i see in the threads we are discussing.
commercial & personal/experimental
- 2cent0
corp design has been putting food on my plate and feeding my livelyhood for the past 6 years.
thanks!
- Bluejam0
I don't think it's a case of doing it right or wrong.
It might be because it involves doing work that doesn't encompass just the designer's point of view - ie. the client has a say, the CD and AD have a say, even the project manager has a say...
...plus i'd wager more people than we care to think about don't actually know what design is or think that design is putting pretty pictures on T-shirt's and making countless wallpapers.
- mrdobolina0
personal/experimental is art, while commercial design is well... design.
- p1xelfrog0
yep agreed mrdobolina!
:P
- ER0
Wow meemo, why do you feel threatened?
Perhaps you like to bash to justify the time and money spent there. i would have liked to go to college, but at the end of the day its how you perform that counts.
- mrdobolina0
My Penis is longer than yours is. :D
- ER0
by the way memio, why dont you provide a link?
save your asshole comments until youve put your balls on the chopping block.
- p1xelfrog0
DOH!
:P
- lifeinsodium0
drink some cold water and try relaxation exercises.
- bostonflash0
no time for personal design, too busy selling my soul
- Mimio0
ER, I'm not here for self promotional purposes. Take my assurance that my book is full of REAL WORLD projects.
- Bluejam0
C'mon Mimio, stop with the cloak'n'dagger stuff and lay yer meat out...
...show us yer work!
- SaintWalker0
As far as I know to design means to create or contrive for a particular purpose or effect, sooo basically to solve a problem. The problem usually being communication of an idea or information. In industrial design the problem would be functionality vs. aesthetics.
The line between design and art can get fucking blurry at times. As far as my understanding goes, when you sit down and play/experimet in photoshop or illustrator and you end up with a wicked image that you're stoked on...you just created art, unless you had a specific goal in mind of showwing something or communicating an idea...then maybe, just maybe you designed something for your own purpose.
I dunno, those are just my thoughts.
- ER0
good for you. since your book is full i can see why you would feel the need to belittle people.
- SaintWalker0
fuck. I ramble like a wanker. sorry. next time I'll try to be more concise.
- ER0
no, well said saint. i think your right. perhaps the problem is that people atempt to sell one as the other.
- Bluejam0
Read quite well, SaintWalker, carry on...