my rant by dfd
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- MLVR0
i do agree with u dfd. but i think all designers need to realize that it's just another job like being a car mechanic, hair dresser, carpenter or whatever... And be happy that you can be a designer instead of mentioned professions. There are too many designers glorifing design or at least what a designer could achive, i'm talking about that first things first stuff. It's damn easy for some people to say that because they are in that position that they can choose what kind of stuff they wanna do. I think its good however that we as designers bare that in mind that we should be aware of what we are doing. I guess what is important for us designers is to take care of our own integrity.
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- ********0
glad you rocked it. I'm still trying to get my six-pack in gear. I'm at about a 4-pack now. ;)
- k0na_an0k0
well said point5.
ya know whats weird. i keep wanting to say your real name, and then when i go to put point5 i'm like 'is that wrong cause we met and i called him by his real name the whole time?!?' haha. funny. same thing with everyone else.
- fernando0
design is not art, you will never touch anyone with design.
you might trick them into feeling lonely so they can go out and purchase something.
- dfd0
You can touch someone's heart no matter what you do.
Whether it's hodling the door for someone in a wheel chair, giving the change you were gonna buy a coffee with to a homeless person ... I don't see any reasons why you coudn't with design.
Think of music for instance. Regardless of who composed it, whether it's candy rappers or good indie rock, it's a powerful medium and has the ability to touch people hearts. We all know this. Now, I'm not saying don't focus on the lyrics, or the meaning of the song for that matter, but think about the last time you heard a song playing somewhere, and it reminded you of someone, or a place/time you were with a person that you fell for.
Designing to touch someone's heart doesn't necessarily mean that the content is irrelevant. It's about the potential of this medium, like anything else to help people remember certain events, people or feelings.
It's something that we as designers can do, maybe even without having that intent. But in the end, it may just uncover some emotions from someone's heart for whatever reason. We can unconsciously dig up feelings and memories from people with our work. This applies to everything we do, not only as designers.
So why couldn't we touch someone's heart with design?
But then, there's the commercial side of it ... which still, perhaps in some ways has the ability do do the same. I've just never had the opportunity to feel anything from it except for perhaps a note on bad colour choice or poor use of typography.
- rasko40
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- iDp0
dfd you are my twin brother...we need to get together and have a drink.
Did you just read Sagmesiters book?
So I got laid off a month and a half ago and went through the same thing. I bought Sagmeisters and Tibor Kalmans book. Read them both in two days and I feel like I've been reborn in my craft. I look back at everything I've done and have realized that most of it is so empty and shallow. The clients I kept didn't get it and frankly neither did I.
Since reading those books I've realized what responsibility we as designers have to NOT sell to the lowest common denomination, have a message and make people tilt their head and actually think. We need to bring the fun and playfullness of design back. All I see these days are cookie cutter styles applied to cookie cutter problems. Fuck that, its not why I got into this game. My resolution to my work and myself is to be a happier designer, solve problems my way and educate the client on the way to the goal. If I lose an account here and there fuck it, they can find a cookie cutter designer for their cookie cutter project (plenty of those these days).
Also I read a really good article about how us designers are in a good position for the future. Lawyers, Doctors, Accountants and programmers are all jobs that can be sent overseas. Its the people who can tell a creative story and understand a culture that will survive and prosper. With this theory the easy cookie cutter designer jobs will be gone one day. We all need to learn to tell a story, like Sagmeister says style = fart, we need to carry a message.
- ********0
Nice Kafka qupte rasko
- DutchBoy0
very familiar story, dfd.
keep pushing though.
i'll do cheap ass work as well, but every now and then a sweet opportunity comes your way and then you remember why you started this carreer in the first place.
chin up, mate!
- rasko40
indeed Kuz :)
- fresnobob0
Fuck what Sagmeister and Bruce Mau and James Victor(e) and all those other fools like them say. Why are you listening to them? Their design is dead.
Oh, and you can change people with design, despite what Fernando is lead to believe. Man, don't you know anything about history? Learn something from it, (then throw it in the garbage and burn it)
- DutchBoy0
oh my..
- iDp0
"Fuck what Sagmeister and Bruce Mau and James Victor(e) and all those other fools like them say. Why are you listening to them? Their design is dead."
you on crack?
- DutchBoy0
i happen to find "massive change" (bruce mau) one of the most interesting books i bought lately. read it almost every night.
ok, it is not so much his design (altho his studio did design the book) but more an overall project, featuring exhibition, book etc.
- fresnobob0
No.
- DutchBoy0
ok.
well, please enlighten us then.
why do you consider their design dead?
- smellvetica0
you still gotta pay the bills, take your trade seriously and your passions more seriously. have some fun at the same time.. it could be a lot worse fella...
- MLVR0
good reading for you who haven't already stumbled upon Mau and Sagmeister.
- dfd0
A big part of what's gonna happen in the future deals with the past.
Make mistakes, and learn from them.
However, it doesn't hurt to pay attention to those who have made similar mistakes before you.
You might fuck up differently, and learn something you wouldn't have on your own.
- contra0
what Rasko said, it were reet beautiful like.