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- ********0
true, save.
but you have a whole week for this one, i'll keep it bumped.
now back to your homework, kids!
>:)
- slag_you_off0
apart from student work and the odd r&d project, everything I design is designed to increase someones revenue or sales or brand awareness. Even the charity stuff Ive done
- pascii0
i hate the term 'trendscout'
- JamesEngage0
I agree with Jevad... you'll come to the wrong conclusions if you try and think to narrowly of design.
- JamesEngage0
to = too
- jevad0
Most of the stuff I 'design' - is 'designed' to sell something to someone. To make them think they can't live without it - or to highligh and offer a new service/product.
I'm a fucking sell-out.
I'd give my right nutsack for some real design work.
- pascii0
is selling the motor of design? do you design just for selling things?
- Blofeldt0
I think graphic design is used for communicating information as well as creating a theme and style to place the informationin a cultural context. Advertising is a big part of our culture so, it makes sense it's used a lot in advertising.
- pascii0
we become famous or AD/CD when we do what the client wants
- Blofeldt0
What's 'real' design work?
- jevad0
"communicating information "
that's about the jist of it right there...
- vespa0
http://www.utexas.edu/coc/journa…
First Things First Manifesto
"There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help."
- rasko40
Television is an amazing invention that can broadcast educational programmes into the homes of millions of people across the planet, promoting healthy eating, lifestyles, attitudes and encourage a society that shuns crime and anti social behaviour.
But mainly its serves up trash to the masses.
Same with the web; mainly porn.
Step out of your utopian bubble and realise theres not much room at the top of the pyramid.
- unfittoprint0
Miguel Ângelo had the Vatican as his client. Sounds good enough for me.
- ********0
good words, Blofeldt.
it also seems for many young designers commercial design projects ( and I am talking Nike/flash/hip etc..) is more interesting.
we should not forget design is a concept to communicate or to interact with the user to make life easier.
organize. make sense out of our chaos.
- ********0
everyone is out there to make their portfolio look good with brand names...
- ********0
As posted in the NTB a while ago by Paul:
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A Crisis in Perception
Are we all just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?
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- sweetasbro0
I would say that as a "producer of visual / objects" as someone who has the honour and good luck to have a few ideas and be able to express them, I constantly have to remind myself to replace the word "beautiful" with the word "good".
You may say in classical ages they are the same thing.
But they're not (for me anyway) - beautiful is invisible; the very notion involves the idea of admiration - and admiration is based on relationship involving power relations. For example, power relations are established when I admire someone's work - which in some way suggest that I am less important than that piece of work - which is crap! The "best" design in any means is worth less than the most worthless of men.
We have to shatter the idea of admiration in order to say, "stop saying it's beautiful. Who cares? Find something that is GOOD for you!" Good here of course refers to what is good for me, for my life, for my growth.
To put it bluntly, the aim of all design these days should be to foster the growth - to work to the advantage - of mankind!
- ok_static0
I'm feeling most of us (even myself) are seeking some sort of an "eye catching" impact on our design rather than seeking a strong concept or idea.