How come most designers suck?
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9) It doesn't take a Graphic Designer to make graphic design
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10) Graphic Designers are afraid of contradiction (see 7.)
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11) Graphic Designers have no sense of irony
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12) Graphic Designers lack genuine theoretical backbone (see 1,9)
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13) Graphic Designers waste their time on the borders of internets massage (see 1–13)
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14) Graphic Designers are unable to maneuver from their own squishy-thumbs / thick-skulls
- 14b) I'm starting to make this shit up********
- Starting to?johfiner
- 14b) I'm starting to make this shit up
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15) Graphic Designers are cornered by their technological masters
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16) Graphic Designers need someone to tell them if they should keep writing...
- 16b) ...should I keep writing?********
- No.tenpointtwo
- hey dickwad I don't see any of your work. I don't like most designers myself but no need to spread the hatred.dan5382
- 16b) ...should I keep writing?
- scarabin0
who said every designer was great?
why should design be different from any other profession?
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because design schools/school don't teach real world design.
- vitamins0
Maybe because anyone can download a crack adobe software and be a design pimp without a degree.
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17) Graphic Designers are inherently egotistical in what should be inherently an egoless profession
- 17b) Graphic Designers misuse their inherent resources (ego)********
- 17c) Graphic Designers know little about psychology / gestalt (see 12.)********
- 17b) Graphic Designers misuse their inherent resources (ego)
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18) Graphic Designers can't see the truth even when it's spelled out for them (see 17.)
- 18b) Graphic Designers are incessant complainers********
- 18b) Graphic Designers are incessant complainers
- ukit0
If everyone was good, the concept would lose its meaning.
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- everything is bad, so good stands out, if everything was good, genius would stand out********
- and then good would be considered shit. it's all relative.ukit
- depends on how objectively you regard visual communication. of course you have a point though.********
- How can you ever regard it objectively?ukit
- Try showing one of the pieces on ManyStuff to a classical Swiss designer in the 60s. They would tell you it was shit.ukit
- there are basic formal rules broken more times than they're not, take typography as just 1 category of many********
- depends on the designer you show it to, Wolfgang Weingart might quite like a lot of it.********
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- erikjonsson0
hey dickheads. ive been making banners for 16 hours straight. stop whining
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19) Graphic Designers have no sense of objective critical judgement (see 18.)
- Peter0
>Seriously how come so many kids coming out of design schools and even a lot of professional designers just suck?
>By suck I mean they produce shallow, boring, or just plain awful work.Gash, dude. Switch out "design" and "designer" for almost any other profession.
Most just live their lives. The naturally talented, or the few who are so passionate about their work they make it the bigger part of their life are,
in relation,
probably just as many as there are in (say) science, whoring or burger-flipping.
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20) Graphic Designers lack the wherewithal for argument / rhetoric. (see 1–20.)
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- 20b) Graphic Designers don't care about Graphic Design enough to defend it.********
- 20b) Graphic Designers don't care about Graphic Design enough to defend it.
- refunktion0
90% of everything sucks.
- i see you're using DIN on your website / 'under construction sign'--looks shit bro********
- thanks King of 90%.refunktion
- i see you're using DIN on your website / 'under construction sign'--looks shit bro
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21) They mimic others way too much in order to feel like they are part of a group.
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