Design and Personality
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- Rand0
cut off corners are back, btw
- Teeuwen0
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...
mr_snuggles
(Sep 12 06, 10:49)true true.
essentially i was pointing out that i tend to design some perfect world to escape from my world of chaos and other shit.
so basically, my urge to design very ordered and terribly neutral is a direct reflex from my real life situation.
- Teeuwen0
thx rand. i will use that.
- Rand0
don't worry, the current trends of illustrative ornamentation will soon give way to swiss rationality once more. then you'll be safe for at least 3 months
- _salisae_0
do you believe, teeuwen, that if you designed sloppily and with disregard your emotional life when become orderly?
i honestly don't think they are related.
- mr_snuggles0
and?
it's not a bad thing...you just have to carve a niche, not that this approach is unique, but hey, take Build for example, his work genuinely lacks emotion, it's all about information display. Telling it like it is, but focusing on the style/layout of that information...that's his personality, well, not that i know him....
anyways dude, design has and always will be a direct translation of our own personal and social surroundings.... so as clerk said, embrace it...
- Teeuwen0
i think i am gonna combine ornaments with pixel blackletter fonts and cut off corners. i may be far ahead.
avent garde more like.
noone will buy it ofcourse!
- Teeuwen0
do you believe, teeuwen, that if you designed sloppily and with disregard your emotional life when become orderly?
i honestly don't think they are related.
_salisae_
(Sep 12 06, 10:56)i don't think you get it.
i don't expect my life to become better through design at all, never claimed that either.
i was just noticing that i can't control the urge of designing minimal. and i thought this was related in a juxtaposed kind of idea, to my personal and mostly emotional status quo.
- JesseJensen0
Dutchie, how busy and distracting is your personal life?
- Teeuwen0
and?
it's not a bad thing...you just have to carve a niche, not that this approach is unique, but hey, take Build for example, his work genuinely lacks emotion, it's all about information display. Telling it like it is, but focusing on the style/layout of that information...that's his personality, well, not that i know him....
anyways dude, design has and always will be a direct translation of our own personal and social surroundings.... so as clerk said, embrace it...
mr_snuggles
(Sep 12 06, 10:57)thanks so much snugs.
you are clearly my daddy now.
liefs,
- mr_snuggles0
we need to spend more time together mate...
you have to come to my new flat in de Pijp..
Para is coming on the 21st, and it may be her last visit for a looong time, so you best make it up here...
- mr_snuggles0
AND you haven't seen Nick nor Alex since they've been here...
shame on you...
- _salisae_0
i get it. but most of the time if something has weight it is true in reverse.
i think you design that way because you're comfortable with it.
- Rand0
if my work reflected my personality there would be alot of white space. In fact, there would be nothing on the page at all.
- Teeuwen0
Dutchie, how busy and distracting is your personal life?
JesseJensen
(Sep 12 06, 11:00)on a measure of 0 to 10?
about 9.2
i already have the "old vague friends/acquintances" Avoidance Act passed through the senate.. but it ain't enough..
- Witt0
this is war. if you do what you don't want to do you're betraying yourself. no matter how you look at it - that's what you're doing. all excuses you can think of, are just excuses. so it all comes down to 1) either you play and fight, and maybe win in the end; 2) either you play and sell yourself, and you loose; 3) either you don't play, and you loose.
- _salisae_0
he's already loose
- xenicon0
unkerned after 8 (so I am told)
- JesseJensen0
When you look outside, and let your eyes wander around society. I notice there is an infinite amount of exposure, advertising, architecture and shit everywhere. Even though it's broken down into many small pieces, it's still all part of the same planet. Sometimes I think about the design process like that, the building blocks to a bigger picture. When I look in to the horizon, and see the ships binding the sea to the sky, it also reminds me of this.