Everything's been done?
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- yol0
Graphic Design's definitely had its day, the 60's/70's was the most experimental and progressive. There was a kind of 're-birth' in the 90's with RayGun, DR, etc - But thats all gone now. Whats left is a very ridged industry controlled by agency people who work in marketing. London is full of good commercial studios, but there is no culture of 'cutting edge' or experimental work, its just full of people hanging out in Shoreditch worrying about the way they look.
If I was you, i would get into Art, its the only field where its not completely influence or controlled by the markert.
- but people hardly 'pay' for artmonospaced
- +1 monspaced. Very little chance you'll make money from artwork whilst still alive.Eighty
- Not that money is the be all & end all, obv.Eighty
- identity0
I suggest you rea
- identity0
* I suggest you read design as art by Bruno Munari.
Design has NOT had its day. Everyday is design's day.
I'm a little tired of this fatalist mentality "this and that is dead" - its a defeatist position that declares 1) you don't know what you're talking about 2) you're not very creative.Some of the most amazing things are happening with design right now in the digital space - design making a difference in effectiveness as well as bottom lines.
Yes, if you want to make minimalist, derivative bauhaus rip-off posters that are meant to convey some small portion of a movie - yes - it's been done before.
- monospaced0
what they said
- Eighty0
How on earth can graphic design have 'had its day'?
- cannonball19780
If it is or isn;t true I don't care. I still like to do it.
- yol0
It has had its day, the activity of 'Graphic Design' is not progressive, it has purely become a component of 'Free Market Capitalism'. The 'Designer' does not influence the public with new ideas, graphic culture is not about the individual, we do not celebrate individualism, as we a lead to believe. Its blocked all the time by the state or private interests. Its one of the 'modern' myths of western society.
One of the best examples in recent years has been street art/grafitti. Individuals decided that public space should not belong to the state or corporate/private interest. The started to communicate there own messages and ideas in their public space and this was immediately labeled as vandalism and an illegal act. This one act along show the contradiction (or lies), surely any society who believes in 'individualism' as a 'truism and is the foundation of any liberal democracy would actively promote and encourage self expression and creative thinking in all parts of the 'market society'? ... we do not, we block it, art as a low priority in school, you can not communicate in public space, you are not educated to have any critical self determination, you are excluded from all of the political decision making process. Graphic design is part of the culture of 'blocking' its purely made for the purpose of profit, its not about humanity.
This is why 'ART' is more important than design and shows the power of ART over design. ART doesn't have to follow any rules and isn't controlled/regulated by an industry or authority. ART is the one true form of create communication for humanity.