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- tripface
Here's a bit of a philosophical/ethcial question/topic for all you clever people...
Does anyone else sometimes feel like,
"OK, so I'm a designer.
I design stuff. That is my job, to design things.
I design stuff that either will ultimately make someone go buy something or convey information about a product or service."
That's it??? That is what I sacrifice and sweat my ass off 40+ hours a week of MY LIFE for. To create a super-colorful, hi-tech new website for a new movie, or some ad sales collateral that will end up in the garbage in a week, or a glossy new package for a hi-powered blender????
I have this question looping in my head quite a bit and was wondering if anyone else did as well and could provide a little insight/feedback...
- ribit0
Design stuff... goes in garbage... design more stuff.. have fun... Wheres the problem?
- gfro0
At what age are we considered washed up and the next generation takes over? Can you imagine a 55 yeaer old creating a 'hot' new site for a movie? Dealing with a 24 year old art director.
Shit we need a union.
And yeah I think about that all the time. Why do we have to keep doing this? After staring at a screen for years on end. There are many of times I envy the day of a bus driver, construction worker, park ranger...
Also for some reson I get MacWorld in the mail and I never even crack it open anymore. Usually it sits around waiting to be opened, then thrown out with out cracking the seal.
good question!
- tripface0
Interesting...
I actually asked my old boss the same question and his reply was virtually the same as ribit...it comes down to the experience of creating something from nothing and having fun while you're doing it...although I think this is a positive outlook to have, I think it's also a little naieve (SP) and a little short sighted.
OK, so you're 55 and you've "had fun" designing countless of projects in your career as a designer. Good. What have you really done though, committed hours amd hours to creating colorful, tri-holded paper refuse. That's it?
Please understand, I don't want to come off cynical or a "party-pooper" with this response or post, but these are considerations I have on a frequent basis and this being a "public voice network" on a design-portal site, feel it somewhat appropriate to discuss here.
anyone??
- warheros0
get a philosophy and make it art.
- janne0
if you want pure autonomy you are in the wrong profession.
- mayo0
I'm a little confused at, what i see as, your desire for longevity in the final product. Yes, the tragically hip brochure with acqeuos coating will get thrown away, but did it accomplish its goal?
What we do is to create items whose goals are to affect people, and the parameters of each job are different. In a world of ever-changng ideas, trends, beliefs and knowledge, can we keep up? We have to be on top of all those things yet fall back on basics established "long" ago.
It's a skill that has its short-lived exhilarating moments, but a strong sense of satisfaction when all is said and done at the end of the day.
- mowax0
Enter response:
my work = my happiness
as an artist&designer, i'll painting and do creative work for the less of my life. and i'm still surviving in this shitty world.