Designers as Consumers
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Seems like a lot of people here think an iPod or a fancy car are "good design", and that a designer has a duty to pay attention to consumer products and buy only the "best design".
Well, perhaps my definition of design is a bit broader than the production of expensive consumer products. I don't understand how wearing Prada or using a certain brand of computer has anything to do with design. Isn't design the application of creative solutions to problems? Anything less is marketing. I don't think Gap ads are design.
How is selling/buying shit supporting design? Is using one's talents as a creative person to develop toys for rich poeople a good use of one's time?
How is buying a mercedes over a ford focus a "better" decision for a designer?I understand that man's complexion is rife with contradiction, but still. C'mon people.
- JamesEngage0
There are only so many people that can design the new tin opener.
- schjetne0
Easy:
Designers appreciate goodlooking shit. Like iPods.
- canadian0
isn't design considered to be a combination of the two and not one over the other?
- JamesEngage0
one mans siht is another mans sherry.
James Stone 2003.
- JamesEngage0
you're on about design!!!! Good riddance.
- JamesEngage0
is an iPod a device?
are you a tool?
- rasko40
what do you suggest, whats your alternative?
I'm all for it.. well depending on what it is.
- rasko40
wow, he really is 'outts here' - he disappeared!!
- canadian0
he's gone.
- mirola0
mind how you go
- JamesEngage0
perhaps he's just a fat handed twat?
- ********0
As if a wookie wears Prada!!
- rasko40
hahah
- mirola0
hahaha, yeah he's gone catching babies.
- canadian0
LMAO! ! "as if a wookie wears prada" has me in tears right now!
- JamesEngage0
he has actually runaway like a little baby hasn't he?
- rasko40
he's been booted and his other posts removed