Designer of the year.. bbc 4
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- JamesEngage0
He is definiely on the side of a less commerical hi-res
- gradiate0
I personally would have gone for daniel buxton. I thought the presenter was harsh on him, his work definitly had a lot of mass appeal. Design isn't just about the here and now but the potential in the work he was producing was great I thought. It had a quality to it that grabbed non desingers as well which I think is a real key potential of design. Craig's was good but as he stated himself it was an evolution and not an orginal piece. If the award had been for the predator then yeah by miles. I guess though its was for the designer and not the piece. I enjoyed it though, BBC4 does have the odd good programme shame they had to get that cock stephen bayley on though, needs to take his head out of his arse. Yeah MR design the dome went well didnt it? pah.
side note: do you reckon a graphic designer could ever be nominated in this competition. I think it lends it self towards products a lot more than 2 dimensions.
- ********0
shite i missed that :(
- tank0
you should ask tomm,ximera hoz he broke his neck...he was als part of the gan who was swimming thre when it happened..apparently there was just this really strong wave...read the interview in creative revieuw..interesting how he handles his new way of living..
- ximeraLabs0
What Soda said - it was just a freak accident at 5am on the beach after we had a nice night out ... but enough about that.
ANYWAY! I think Danny deserves this. He has been pushing the medium forward for years now and him winning this is also very good for our industry as a whole, in terms of acceptance of graphic/interactive design to the masses and that it can also be considered culturally and artistically important.
- gradiate0
Yeah I do think he deserves it as well, its great that this programme got made at all as well though architect and fine artist of the year get prime time channel 4. I think designer should get the same billing. maybe one day...
- ximeraLabs0
what gradiate says.
- JamesEngage0
2A wouldn't get it for a start.
- soda0
i do think you are starting to see that happen. Can't remember the article I read not too long ago but it stated that graphic design is beginning to be something that is followed by non-creatives, it may of been Adrian Shannessy (sp?) from Intro talking about it but it made a lot of sense. Graphic design, illustration, animation etc is so prominent now it's exciting times and you don't have to be part of it to enjoy it?
- soda0
regarding the winner, I do agree it's great for this industry and gives him a lot of recognition that he deserves but I just feel his stuff sits in the grey area between art and design rather than being a designer in conventional sense.
Ives got it last year for the directions his work was taking apple and consumer electronics...this year it seems they have taken that a bit further and looked at someone who is taking interaction in new directions.Maybe I am just looking at it from too simply a perspective and the times are changing.
Yeah, I think I need to wake up and smell the future...
- JamesEngage0
thats a good thing... it is probably the grey area that won it for him.
- gradiate0
Think design is something that can be argued every way and as long as someone with talent (which all 4 had) wins it then thats good by me. I agree that designs profile is growing day by day which can only be a good thing.
Side note the presenter guy makes me laugh, hes so enthusiastic. The kind if guy that if you had to sell design to your mum youd choose.
- ribit0
Interesting that it was open to industrial designers, graphic designers, but not architects or fashion designers... sort of an arbitrary mix but targeting the less-understood (by the public) branches of design?
- lowimpakt0
I'm always intrigued to know what problems people are talking about when they say graphic design is all about solving problems. I mean there is only a limited number of ways to sell shit to poeple. It's making pictures at the end of the day init. Unless making pictures is a problem.......
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- legspin0
melk,
Craig Johnson came to England to play for the mighty Middlesbrough not Liverpool!!!
Moved to Liverpool from the BORO.
- lowimpakt0
p.s. I have had one hours sleep last night - just sat a really long and hard exam (which went well) and I think daniel brown is great. And what I should have said is the majority of designers aren't solving problems at all..........
- DutchBoy0
haha, i love lowimpakt's refreshing simplicity as i am breaking my mind here writing copy to make clients want me..
i hate writing shit like this..
i am a designer.. oh well...
- save0
I agree with lowimpakt...at the end of the day all we do is try and makes things look nicer.
- ********0
This is the most interesting discussion i've read on NT in my (short) time here.
Art and design do merge in a lot of places, but whatever. There's still so much to explore with interactive design and the way people interact with computers and things. Even though his work hasn't had the same effect on peoples everyday lives as Jonathan Ive's work - he's still pushing and exploring things in his field. I guess thats what won it for him.
- soda0
I think my response to it was based on me thinking it's 'Design of the Year' if you shift to thinking about it as 'Designer of the Year' it makes more sense, James is right...the fact he occupies the grey area between design and art makes that difference.
And I agree, there are a couple of good threads on at the moment and all of them on design and not Pink Ninjas and such!