not artists
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- rasko40
well most of them arent
- smellvetica0
i've had "designers and illustrators.. same fucking thing aren't they."
that was from a fine artist who now uses a mac to scan in paintings.. ignorant .
- t_rock0
most of the designers I know are. they've taken their interest/passion for art and gone to school, educated themselves with a strong foundation in fine arts and gone on to a career in the commercial arts.
- Nac0
Here you go baby, I have the ultimate question to determine if designers are artists or not...
What is Art?????
anyone care to take 500 alex? (trebek... so you guys don't all think I am crazy or something)
- zeroblade0
be thankful, cos artists works are worth more only when they're dead.
i'd rather be a live pauper designing japanese shite that feeds me the peanuts i need.
- lilbabyleg0
there is a certain artistic element to design. but not all designers are artists. and furthermore you can be a great designer and still not be a good artist.
design is organizing and conveying a message that is most often not that of the designer.
an artist creates the message itself and finds ways to convey it.
- withnail0
I hate it more when a client condescendingly refers to a designer as an artist- i.e. an impractical airhead esthete with no awareness of the real world
- abstractism0
well. like everyone else has said. different people has different views :x
- enobrev0
if there were an actual definition to art, artists would be boring.
- fate0
hehe
- abstractism0
btw. that client is neither. who cares what he says. woohoo!
- ribit0
designers don't have to be artists. artists don't have to be designers.
- BEEMO0
people go completely fucking crazy if they can't catagorize every little thing; it seems a little funny if you think about it.
kinda reminds me of someone trying to figure out which genre bin Beck albums go...