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- non0
"i think it depends on what you're designing for. Sometimes, using a particular style is an effective way to promote or say something. "
Yes, it is true.
But I mean't that if you can recognize who did what piece, then the designer didn't design for the client, but for himself. Wich would make him, in my opinion, more of an artist than a designer. But again, the statement I just made could be totally wrong because one of the greatest designers to ever live in this world had his own style and was easily recognizable :
Josef Müller-Brockmann
But again, the second statement might be faulse..
- ********0
yeah i mean when i look at a Brockmann poster, or lets say an Armin Hoffman poster for the theatre in Basel, it makes me go 'wow, what an artist' - but it doesn't make me want to go and watch the play.
i think Paul Rand did a good job with that balance.. because he came from advertising.. but this man signed his pieces.. and had people in New York talking about the latest Paul Rand ad for Orbach's that they saw in the Times that day...
we dont have designers like that these days.
- dippy0
i love how you second-guess yourself, non! ;)
i think you're partly right and partly wrong about the designer designing "for himself." I think the trend nowadays for designers is to establish your "style" -- then when clients want to advertise or promote something that would best be served by that style, they come to you.
So some designers are also partly artists.
(if this is not making sense, it's because my woman is watching oprah at the moment, and it's distracting me)
- ********0
mostly because design has become so universally accessable and we've taken the art out of it.
Modernism was a movement.
today we have trends.
- non0
"but probably best in the ones he is designing for."
Totally agree.
Everything is relative.
I believe that the best tool a designer can have is his logic. In my opinion, the caliber of the designer is proportionnal to his or hers logical abilities.
- non0
I just received the annual studio list edition of Grafika (a design mag for the Quebec industry) and I have to say that atleast 90% of the studios and freelancers listed in this is total shit.
Not to be bitchy or condenscending on my fellow designers, but jesus, if you don't know what does the term IDEA mean, then stop calling yourself a designer and just be a "production artist". I think this is part of the problem to. To many people call themselves designers, wich totally saturates the environnement for TRUE graphic designers or visual communicators.
- ********0
also, creating stunning graphical pieces back in the day when we WERENT bombarded with 100,000 images a day were probably a lot more effective than today.
its hard to find true originality.
- dippy0
non, this is getting scary. everything you're saying is really making sense and inspiring me to be a better designer.
are you my conscience?
- non0
maybe
- fresnobob0
"...because one of the greatest designers to ever live in this world had his own style and was easily recognizable :
Josef Müller-Brockmann"
Müller-Brockmann didn't have a style. That was the whole point of his work.
- jevad0
yes but his 'not having a style' unfortunately became 'a style'
lol
- rabattski0
dito jevad. not having a style is a style in itself.