How come most designers suck?
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- ********0
it's an excuse to do drugs, what could be better?
- ukit0
I mean thinking back, I was in school at a time when design was just design and there was no expectation of learning the technical side...and some of my professors were decently well-regarded designers themselves...and those fuckers couldn't even make it to class half the time, much less put a coherent curriculum together. No wonder the kids are confused these days.
- typist0
anyone who never featured in editor choice, leave NOW!
- enjoy the Qlub..neue75_bold
- hahaha, wtf does that even mean?********
- ********0
you're in my prayers, mike
- CALLES0
dont care enough... rather have a social life with real life friends and fap?
- josimar0
WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS CUNT'S WORK THEN? (that's fibonaci I'm referring to)
- The cunt's work can be found here http://josimar.com/********
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i see what you did therejimzyk
- The cunt's work can be found here http://josimar.com/
- homeostatic0
This guy doesn't have any work.
Same story as every other coward douchebag who comes around talking smack. Anonymous, in the closet HACK.
- airey0
for the record, not just new designers suck. apparently i'm fucking terrible also, according to many peeps here, so stand and be proud older hack designers. i'll be drinking alone again for you.
- kezza_20
I suppose the one thing Ive noticed over 4-5 years of interviewing is how much graduates are obsessed by the skill of production, and not in the creativity of an idea.
It's very rare that graduates articulate abstract ideas...
Just get the usual ; "I did this in illustrator using blah blah blah"
I'm not sure why. I graduated in 98 and computers really didn't figure too much in our work, so we often just worked on ideas as our ability/and computers ability couldnt do what we wanted.
Now I get the feeling that kids sit in front of a Mac for three years, and that's about all they can do.
- ********0
But would you honestly have someone in for an interview without computer skills? Getting through the door of an agency without full Adobe suite and HTML is impossible now, look at the specs for an 18k junior position.
- ********0
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Get with it Grandad Kezza, abstract ideas and such mean fuck all for Junior Designers when all your going to be doing is shit work for a year anyway.
I'd much rather have a junior who could knock out a bunch of web banners without hand holding while we do the real work.
- meffid0
When will this prick just go ahead and die.
- doesnotexist0
because they've never read the fountainhead
- Ayn Rand is the answer to all life's questions...except the ones that have to do with reality.luckyorphan
- gramme0
One of these "bad" designers recently did me a favor: a client fired them half-way through a project and hired me instead. So no complaints here.
- ********0
This thread fails to deliver.
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- mudder fukker!jimzyk
- yeah, wtfbaseline_shift
- i clicked that... fuck me! my eyes!ItTango
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- ItTango0
A couple of posts make reference to designers who don't read. I think they may be on to something there.
The truth is, all disciplines (art, music, design, photo, etc) are best informed by the "stuff" that resides outside of them. e.g. You can sit the piano 8 hours a day, everyday for a year... learn to play Sonata in C at light speed, it won't make you Keith Jarrett or Thelonius.
There's an understanding that must be gleaned which has absolutely nothing to do with your proficiency at CS4, or your ability to recreate the CA Design Annual dot for dot.
Cliffs Notes vs Life?
- yo, agreed. You have to cultivate an ability to observe and draw meaning out of things not necessarily in the design world.baseline_shift
- in the? IN THE?! dammt, man, say it! don't u die on me now! LIVE!ItTango
- ha...
not in the design world.baseline_shift
- ********0
Step 1 - GTFO Qbn.com
- fresnobob0
fibonacci, you're a dick. Most designers suck because they're lame dudes like you.
However, since you're the math fanatic you'd probably know that most designers suck because of something called a mathematical probability. I suppose though, that you probably wouldn't know that, since accepting that means that you're only in the place you are by pure mathematical chance, which would totally discount your ego.
- neue75_bold0
in my experience it's not so much as an individual problem of the graphic designer per say, but rather one with the industry as a whole.. too many designers are caught up wholly in the pursuit of making something look good and function well, on the best of occasions it's actually about communication... Most of us are still just trying to make "good design" in order to cause an emotional result which is usually a purchase... At the end of the day, you must really get off on manipulating people for someone else's gain, or you just have your head so far up your ass, your just concerned about creating something nice, maybe with a clever angle that will end up in your folio...
But for most of us what other option is there? Unless we're running our own practices, most of us cannot possibly try to convince a client that this is a bullshit and archaic way to think and work.
Most designers still believe a logo on it's own needs to communicate something, which just isn't even logical, but it's been so engrained into our logic it takes a long time to try and snap out of it...