Design and Personality
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- mr_snuggles0
it IS all about selling/creating a story, as much for the pitch as it is for yourself. the question is – can you stomach creating stories to potentially decieve the audience? Creating a more human approach to a faceless corporation...
90% of the time I have to remove my personality/beliefs from my work because I work for someone else and now, I'm in a culture that is new to me, so throwing my personality into my work is futile and counter-productive...
- gavindayyy0
stop thinking about thinking and do
- xenicon0
Pujolistan
- clerk0
yes embrace the concept of design bullshit.
- Teeuwen0
sanks, jay.
what is R5? sorry i am not a citizen of the United States of America.
- flavorful0
Niccolò Machiavelli was the greatest mind our world has ever produced.
Until I was born.
- Teeuwen0
yes embrace the concept of design bullshit.
clerk
(Sep 12 06, 10:30)ok.
i need to see examples.
- Rand0
hahaha
- mr_snuggles0
examples?!? it's everywhere mate...
- clerk0
"Every once in a while, there is satisfaction to be had when design bullshit attains the level of art. I remember working years ago with a challenging client who kept rejecting brochure designs for a Francophile real estate development because they "weren't French enough." I had no idea what French graphic design was supposed to look like but came up with an approach using Empire, a typeface designed by Milwaukee-born Morris Fuller Benton in 1937, and showed it to my boss, Massimo Vignelli. "That will work," he said, his eyes narrowing.
At the presentation, Massimo unveiled the new font choice with a flourish. "As you see," he said, "in this new design, we're using a typeface called Ahm-peere."
I was about to correct him when I realized he was using the French pronunciation of Empire.
The client bought it."
- Teeuwen0
i've alway wanted to produce stuff to be proud of. i don't have much else in live.. so there, personality comes in again.
- xenicon0
French North American Empire = St Pierre and Miquelon
- mr_snuggles0
you're not proud/happy with your own personal work?
I'm confused about this now, are you talking about personality or emotion?
- xenicon0
reflection or face?
- Teeuwen0
i have no personal work.
personality, in my case a lot of emotion coming out.
- flavorful0
Haha, clerk that was great.
- xenicon0
Jonquil or narcissus?
- Rand0
Massimo Vignelli, no stranger to the green stuff
- mr_snuggles0
if you have none then you best start. commercial design at our level is rarely rewarding enough, especially if you care about your profession...
but I thought the criticism was lack of emotion, opting for a more straight-forward, communicative, information-based approach...
- jaylarson0
"sanks, jay.
what is R5? sorry i am not a citizen of the United States of America.
Teeuwen
(Sep 12 06, 10:30)"i think it was the droid in the first Star Wars movie (er, Episode 4) that blew up when Luke was checking em out.
"Uncle Owen, Uncle Owen, this unit has a bad motivator!" thus, they chose R2D2.
This may have been translated funny, but I would think the Nederlands would've had a version with NL subtitles... or something... peace.