Microsoft Design
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- Llyod
http://www.microsoft.com/design/…
Every now and then I like to start a thread about MS Design for laughs. I mean ffs, the place is full of people like these:
- svenreed0
i wonder if they use macs
- mitee_0
Microsoft Design is a myth.
- Llyod0
tell that to August
- Greyton0
Publisher FTW.... not really
- jfletcher0
Actually August is one of the smartest designers I know....
If you think real design is just cool fonts in a nice grid layout, I'd study history and read up a bit more....also, people love to laugh if poeple at Microsoft use Macs (which I've seen at a few conferneces), but people forget Microsoft sells software, so if they're running Vista, MS still wins. Classic business model.
- univers0
Even though they have some quarks... I don't think it's that bad.
- akrokdesign0
does it get more horsey looking.
how smart they are has noting to do with it. you have to have fucking sense of style.
- akrokdesign0
look, not everything they make it bad. there are good things. and its not just software. also products.
but when it comes to package design. then they are quite bad.
- also that site look like crap.akrokdesign
- maybe they need a creative genius pill.Hoax
- Llyod0
I'm signing up. how much do you think they pay?
http://www.qbn.com/jobs/?krop_jo…
- ukit0
I did some consulting there for a month, it was kind of a Kafka-like experience. Very difficult tracking down info on project requirements, and in the end the whole thing was nixed due to budget cuts.
- dtan0
my sister's bf works there and hates their products...not to mention, people there are "emotionally underdeveloped" hah
- welded0
I'd just like to point out the IE6/7 style sheets. That's all.
- utopian0
Please never use the word "Microsoft" and "design" in the same sentence ever again...
- DogsBreath0
Some stereotypical anti-Microsoft sentiment above. Pretty ignorant really...
- feel the hateukit
- Obviously you design on a PC and do not have a design degree!utopian
- if you like their stuff, why don't you just say so.akrokdesign
- uberdesigner0
who do you suppose is in charge of microsoft design?
- uberdesigner0
anyone?
- Why do you care? It's not like you're talented enough to work there anyway.jfletcher
- if you can't answer the question get bentuberdesigner
- you don't want the answer... if you did, I would.jfletcher
- if you have the answer, spill it, otherwise gfyuberdesigner
- zarkonite0
it sounds like they're doing their mea culpa, but still, I'll believe it when I see it.
- of all the crap they work on it would seem like they have a hundred people there. there has to be a bossuberdesigner
- August de los Reyeszarkonite
- hahahhaha I didn't catch that. He looks like a total pussy. probably gets run over in meetings.uberdesigner
- GH0
Can you believe it —
"Not just for their contents, but the design of the objects themselves—from type and layout to paper and bindings."
He doesn't just appreciate a good read, he loves the typographic details and the choice of binding and paper stock. What a guy. I think every designer should dig this deep for design inspiration.