chermayeff on designers
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- _salisae_
"I don't have a high regard for designers. There aren't that many I know about who are truly creative and literate. I think most designers are self-indulgent, illiterate, a fashion-mongering bunch of people who cannot speak on any subject except their own. They're just service people working on other people's problems, trying to be a bridge between a message and a product and an audience."
- robotron3k0
thems' r fightin' words...
- Geith0
Is he still alive?
- ls3designs0
OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!!!!!!....so i are bought shoes new trendy likey-likey!!
- _salisae_0
chermayeff the great humbilizer
- gramme0
Sure there are many designers like that, but all the really good ones that I know are quite literate, broadly educated and good listeners.
- drgs_not_hugs0
I agree fullheartedly 100% with Chermayeff
Everyone who thinks otherwise are surely idiots and talentless shiteaters
- i like your new namelambsy
- ty :)
i was banned :(drgs_not_hugs
- gramme0
"...service people working on other people's problems, trying to be a bridge between a message and a product and an audience."
So what does the guy consider himself to be, I wonder? What about his partner Geismar?
By the by, I was just looking at a swatchbook they did for Crane. It's not well designed. The format is a bit confusing. Just sayin'...
- Dr_Rand0
where we go on the cape is up a dirt road from the chermayeff compound... we met some people on the beach who invited us to dinner and said he was an asshole
- Dr_Rand0
but i agree with him
- you can't help but agree with him, it's like a grandparent getting after you...robotron3k
- I'm afraid he'll put a hit out on meDr_Rand
- gramme0
I agree that his characterizations are true of most designers. I've even been guilty of some of those trespasses myself at times.
- CALLES0
i agree wih some of it... been to BDA?
- ethanfink0
If he was literate, would he have produced logos for some of the most polluting, crass, and disgraceful companies in the world?
Mobil, Mereck, Phillip Morris?
I would call that NOT responsible, sustainable, or admirable.
At least I don't make drugs, sell oil, or sponsor immoral cigarette companies.
- Oh come on, the world was very different when he created those logos.Josev