Design Sense on multiple mediums
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- dog_opus0
Excellent subject, Meeklo. I appreciate good design – and cringe at bad design – everywhere I go. I couldn't not notice it if my life depended on it. After I'd taken classes with some passionate, knowledgeable, and talented professors I realized that I'd had an as yet unrefined and unfocused design instinct that would make look twice and think about stuff all around me: in books, builidlings, utnesils, appliances, posters, etc. (everywhere).
I appreciate god design that works, even if I'm not particularly fond of it – kind of like acknowledging talented musicians whose music I may not enjoy.
One aspect of design culture that I've been dismayed by, time and time again, is the cliche attitude of many designers: disdain, cynicism, pretentiousness, and hostility toward other designers or even everyday people who don't conform to their groupthink. I don't think that's good for design, or for people in general.
But, yeah, I'm a pretty optimistic person, and while this may set me up for disappointment sometimes, it's worth it to be able to appreciate all the beautiful design around me: it's frickin' everywhere.
- well saidd_rek
- I'd also like to point out that I think open-mindedness, broad knowledge, tolerance, and...dog_opus
- ...a broad weltenschung are essential qualities to the good designer.dog_opus
- haha Sorry about wrecking my post with typos. Jeez.dog_opus
- exactly, I find myself sometimes being hostile to other designs, but after a few days I realize I was a doucheMeeklo
- I'm working on fixing that!Meeklo
- Sometimes honesty is only perceived as hostility though, the place I am at now has a guiding principle...NONEIS
- "Be brutally honest at every stage"NONEIS
- Meeklo & NONEIS, I think that there's a happy medium between both of these viewpoints. Both are valid.dog_opus