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- plugindesign
Does anyone know of any good designs blogs, looking for an insiight into the industry, I work freelance and would like to get an insight into peoples working life at a design studio, just being nosy realy...
- tkmeister0
here??
- GeorgiePorgie0
He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and weavers-all of them master craftsmen and designers.
Exodus 35:34
- infostruct0
You can catch up on the opinions of the design elite (design pretentious) here:
- MLVR0
www.coudalpartners.com (i think)
- pulsar_nl0
check out my latest PBS's... dutch design.
- dippy0
I second infostruct's linky. So what if it's pretentious? Design Observer is worth the read because it's actually written by graphic designers who've spent years doing what they do, instead of some 22 year-old schlub with a bachelor's degree in Photoshop from some correspondence course.
Check out this one too:
- fusionpixel0
hey, it was illustrator not photoshop.
:-P
- dippy0
I stand corrected. ;)
- infostruct0
It is a good source for the most part. But I have found some of it a bit silly ever since the Winterhouse v.s Edward Tufte bickering that went on there a while back.
- rabattski0
ugh! blogs!
*cleans mouth with soap*
- vburo0
i sometimes get tired of graphic designers wanting to write as if they are some lingual acrobats or something. don't get me wrong, i am not against well written literature but i am seeing too many attempts lately of trying to act as "hey look at me writing like a god!" instead of finding a way to communicate the essence of the story quickly and easy across the globe..
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- rabattski0
yep. leave the writing to the writers and the designing to the designers. not that designers can't write or that writers can't design but if you're passionate about writing why the hell are you a designer? and vice versa ofcourse. besides most blogs are just so useless, waste of bandwidth and diskspace.
- vburo0
haha rabattski.. but still i will do a renewed attempt at starting a blog soon.. but mostly to find a way to educate/inform/question the people around me regionally.
because it always amazes me that people here think of graphic design as something far from their beds...
and it will prolly be in Dutch anyway.
- liquid0
yet we all write here.... everyday...
*sigh
- rabattski0
vorm, i don't have the feeling to write a log about design. maybe it's my atttitude towards design or maybe it's the fact that there are so many sites out there who already do it.
you're talking about a design blog pointed to people who have no idea what design is?
i think most design blogs are read by designers only. i don't think non-designers are that interested in it.
- vburo0
you are picturing this way too broad, paul.
it'll be beneficial for me for several reasons. An archive of thoughts and ideas for myself and something i can refer people too when i engage in conversations about certain subjects related to graphic design but also human interaction etcetera.
it will not be put up for designers in the first place, nor am i expecting visitors to come in just for the concept of the blog. The most interesting thing of blogs imho is that it's content gets picked up by search engines (etc.) and that you can find information about things that are hard to find on the web.
it's many reasons altogether, but pretentiousness is certainly not one of them.
- vburo0
i shouldn't have even mentioned it here.. :/
anyways, i am trying really hard to aim my concepts to 'the rest of us humans' but it's really hard if you have a keen interest in other designers as well.. but i am getting there.
so much design is so introspective professionaly.. it's been bothering me more and more lately.
- rabattski0
that search engine bit's actually quite true though.
but a discussion imo is something totally different as a blog, which it's just a linear posting of messages with most of the time options for comments but it's not really a medium for a discussion, like here.
- rabattski0
what exactly is it that's bothering you? i mean, design has always been in a way introspective. right?