U Aren't That Special
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- raf0
Beware of people using inflections of the word 'creative' for they are full of shit—a fellow designer told me that in a conference room, stoned.
- Peter0
Meh.
I enjoy "articles" by...whomever he is, pictured below... and people like him where you can tell by the vocabulary just how insightful things are going to get.
With words like "awesome" you know you got yourself a thinking man with a serious, sharp and staggering message that will pierce the heart of your conscience.
Or stab you repeatedly in your eyes, in this case.
There's just something about the wining, the apologies and the self entitlement that keeps me skimming. The reading is like passing a car crash where you just can't help to look at the gore smeared over the sidewalk. It aint pretty. You bless you have nothing to do with the accident, but man does it draw you in.
Examples starts at column one.
"In a great moment of success for a fellow designer we find ourselves trolling and upset about something very insignificant. In fact, it’s meaningless. Next week we’ll find another “squirrel” and be distracted by that. Meanwhile, historic things like WikiLeaks and an uprising in Egypt go on in the background."
Come now. You're not your work. Or, at least most people are not.
Comparing work with, dude like "historic things" and stuff, is just daft. You can leak, you can protest, all while you're being a designer.
Doesn't even have to be design. You can work with anything, and feel just as passionate (or not) about it to praise even the most pedestrian of accomplishments by it. Many do.
If anything: everyone is not special.
Then there was other nuggets of insights like this one:
"Creativity isn’t ours. Just because you can draw better, doesn’t make you a better thinker."
Who claims such a thing?
"Design isn’t just aesthetics, it’s more than that."
Who've claimed otherwise, gaaaaaah!
"Creativity isn’t always the result of skill of someone gifted with it. It also isn’t something just anyone can learn in a short time. It’s somewhere in between."
Someone...stab me in my eyes. Please stab me in my eyes. Can't take this sophomoric ramblings no more.
"I’m not about to define design here, that’s another article for another time. However as a designer I think we can agree that we have to abide by certain principles/rules in order to create great design"
Someone hand me a gun.
...and that's where I stopped reading.
All he could have said were designers are usually a bunch of whiny babies and I'd agree. In essence his writing said, nay, proved just that. But it could have been much less painful.
- Ironic. Mehmonospaced
- I too petered out after just a few paragraphsmanonthestreet
- i find myself skimming over this post just the same as I skimmed the article, maybe we all are too impatienteighteen
- @ manonthestreet
ziiiiingPeter
- instrmntl0
Its like when actors refer to acting as their "craft". that really gets to me.
- instrmntl0
this guys sucks.
- instrmntl0
haha, looking at his blog titles, he has smt against designers. they must all hate him because he's a filthy ux person,hence his hatred back. hes a ux troll.
- Cptn_Uncanny0
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;_;
- jamble0
Total wankery. I'm not really sure where that post is supposed to go much beyond the linkbait title.
- GeorgesII0
Nokia buys mMicrosoft, yadah yaadahdh yaaahddah,
Apple vs Flash vs Android vs Commodore vs yo mom,
meh, he didn't even aply the super trendy magic type effect to it...this guys is both right and a cunt for telling us his point of view,
BUUURN HIM!!- You are not your work related topics. Any/every profession have have parts no one outside their work sphere cares about.Peter
- lukus_W20
TL:DR; he's still pissed he doesn't have an invite to dibbble.
- lukus_W20
The thing that pisses me off most about this kind of post is the fact that even though his post doesn't actually say anything (other than designers have big egos), there are still a load of comments at the foot of the page giving him high fives about how great it is.
A bigger problem with the design industry (especially on the internet) is sycophancy. Everyone's willing to love everything if it'll give them a bit more exposure / allows them to take turns at giving each other's ego a hand-job under the table.
I googled his name - he also writes for 'smashing magazine' ... maybe that says it all.
- autoflavour0
so due to my increasingly short attention span i only read the first line of this website.
in 5 words or less can you summarize your arguments.
- herzo0
I am too special.
- randommail0
TheBlueOne, why did you even share this blog entry?
Poorly written design babble by a noob is a dime a dozen on the internet; what made you think this one was worth sharing?
- Fax_Benson0
ballbag
- shellie0
I started reading that article but then it started to just look like this after the first 3 sentences:
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaaah. ZzzzzzzzzzZzzzZzzZZZzzzz.
- manonthestreet0
Someone should copy the article, find and replace "designer" with "writer" and email him a copy.
