Designer or Creative?
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- iGin
Hi all,
I am not a native english speaker and I don't always get the difference between what is called a Creative and a Designer.
From what I understood so far:
a Creative haves more broader skills, from concepts to Photoshop works, for print, digital, event, etc...
a Designer is more specialised and focuses, helped by his technical skills on taking to life (in motion, in pictures or whatever) the original concept.Am I right?
- ThePublics0
Creative is wankspeak.
- < ThisNathan_Adams
- Removes shoe, pounds on desk. Here here.gramme
- Are you Kruschev?CyBrainX
- +100000000000isakosmo
- WE WILL BURY YOU, COMRADE KREATIVSKYgramme
- detritus0
There is no hard and fast rule -
describing oneself either way is entirely down to one's own pretension.
- e-pill0
creatives are born with that special talent..
designers are taught in school and can be anyone..
- johnny_wobble0
don't call yourself a creative. creative is an adjective, not a noun.
- akrok0
you can also be a creative designer. :p)
- vaxorcist0
in agencies, the "creative department" includes Designers, Art Directors, Copywriters and Creative Directors.... and probably more....
whereas the "account department" contains those pesky but useful sales-whizzes who convince the client to actually pay for the crazy stuff we do....
- WeLoveNoise0
Creative comes up with concepts
Designer is given these concepts / style guides to deliver remaining elements to the projectIt's agency talk - not something that generally happens in small studios
- i think your statement is limiting to only agencies in your industry and excluding others..e-pill
- he didn't specify what industry but you're right yeh. Is it not the same in robot designing? ;)WeLoveNoise
- im in fashion.. my robots are my hobby.e-pill
- sine0
Arteest
- ukit20
"God created the universe"
"God designed the universe"
- zarkonite0
They're the same really, depends on how the company is setup really. For my part I would say that all designers are creatives but not all creatives are designers. Creatives being members of the creative dept, that dept being made of people with very different skillsets.
- UKV0
It depends on who you are talking to: an integrated agency would consider a "creative" a broad term for anyone in the creative department who likely has an area of expertise; art director, motionagrapher, writer, UX/UI, designer, etc. It can also be used to describe someone who is an integrated thinker and can execute work in every medium; interactive, print, broadcast, mobile.
- gramme0
Designer is a noun. Creative is an adjective. Calling designers creatives is like calling lawyers legals. It's daft, douchey, and addy. Don't do it.
- creative put pussies on pedestals
designers dont.e-pill - @Matt and Ed. L to the O to the fucking L. So true.Amicus
- creative is a noun. http://www.google.ca…zarkonite
- I don't believe it. I can't. I won't.gramme
- creative put pussies on pedestals
- vaxorcist0
a copywriter can be a creative..... so it's a broader term
- WeLoveNoise0
who gives a shit - just take the one that pays the most!
- Fax_Benson0
Creativer covers all bases.
- Fax_Benson0
Use an extra i for added sophistication.
I am un Cre-at-iv-i-er.
Then spit on the floor.
- Ironmonkey0
Becoming more designy has killed my creativity in was. Now I am trying to reverse the process.
- cannonball19780
*looks out to stars, wishing he could leave planet behind*
- vaxorcist0
I thought you ended up on another planet, or dimension or whatever at the end of that QBN fiction thread! How did you find your way back to earth?