Lecture by Geoff McFetridge
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- ********
thought you cynical QBNers might like to tear this guy a new asshole
- erikjonsson0
nice name
- t_rock0
I like Geoff's work.
- identity0
his work is very nostalgic to me (as I found out about him in college) so my opinions are biased - good stuff IMO
- ********0
Good designers are usually a douche. Except for one.
- thanks man. on both accountserikjonsson
- No! Not you. Maybe your blond friend of yours.********
- janne760
there's nothing to lecture about graphic design.
- really? you can't say there is a set of rules that apply from project to project?version3
- nope. if the client smiles and draws his cheque book it is all ok.janne76
- i don't mean the client i mean in your own process of finding your clients answersversion3
- i find them on smashing magazine kind of sites...janne76
- janne760
srsly. i never had to do ANYthing with "rules" in my life of design. having that said my clients just don't care. their clients don't either. and thus neither do i.
- janne760
but reading this site for all this time it must seem like the USA is the best design land in terms of thought, that everyone including clients are so concerned with it!
- ********0
well hats off to him, besides the good work, i dont think i could stand up in front of a group of people and talk about work/my work for 30min.
...thats what QBN's for :)
- janne760
i haven't bought anything related to design for months now. not even a book. i guess i just focus on earning a bit of cash and grab a beer after the day's done...
- version30
nice podium, shame about that voice
- janne760
outside of QBN NOONE that i know really gives this much about design like you do. ffs, if these communities did not exist most of you would design based on the few books you buy, or be academic about torn apart type and its connotations about its social impact on the retinas of deluded hipsters in the subcultures of urban music revivals in the western hemisphere.
just make some banners, an ID, a whatever the fuck i know, earn some cash, be done with it.
FFS.
- janne760
you know what frees the mind? taking this shit less serious. being able to actually crawl into the mind of completely different people and their jobs and find out how insignificant we all are in the end if you keep comparing and go dizzy and mental like i did.
now i am on the other side and okay but i lost all interest in any form of creation.
- janne760
it's like banks before the crisis. full of air. interesting, but useless. if not fatal to being just sober and consider it nonsense.
WORK = WORK.
- version30
janne, you haven't spent enough time in the why do most designers suck thread :P
- Douglas0
I actually appreciate that this isn't the smoothest lecture I've ever watched. There is good info here presented in an honest way.
Something I find more difficult than talking about my own work for 30minutes is talking about someone else's work for 1hr. I tried to moderate a talk with a artist/designer last week and all the conversations we had in meeting beforehand were brilliant. While on stage though, I realized that half of what we had talked about before were my 2cents on things and that the people who came that night were not there to listen to me go on and on about shit. This means that I had to have like 5 times as many questions to ask in a natural conversational way that didn't make it seem like I was just reading off a bunch of cards. In the end, it was nerve-wracking, and I realized just how fluent and prepared you have to be when giving a talk on something. I also think that the only way to get better at speaking is to just keep doing it.
- Corvo20
janne76: there's nothing to lecture about graphic design.
- version30
he's an illustrator anyway, that isn't about graphic design which he says he sucks at
- Daithi0
Another short film here for those who are interested
http://www.coudal.com/ws3.phpI always liked McFetridge's work, and he comes across well I think.
- detritus0
He seems to be highly effective at spending a long time saying very little. I hope that philosophy isn't transposed into his work.