Design Leadership 2020
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- grafician0
Not so much as leaders, but more people to look up too.
I would say the AGI members are a start: https://a-g-i.org/members
Replying to your direct questions:
1. A good solid designer and respectful person, skilled both in craft and soft skills, good writer, good activist too.
2. In our design community here in Romania, we are pretty much equals, the "old" more experienced designers we know each other, and we try to push the younger generations to learn and be better faster, as design hasn't had that much history in a former communist country, so I would say we still look up to the great Western designers for leadership in a sense.
3. Personally no, not actively looking to be a leader, but I try to directly help the young guns with advice, finding jobs, recommendations, etc. anything I can do to make their designer lives easier.
Overall, I would add that leadership is not a thing to actively look for, you kinda become one when others see you like that.
Then again, the creative fields are so dynamic, it's getting harder to keep up and we need to always learn and re-learn anything and everything, so in this matter, we are all students and forever be.
p.s. If you write in your profile/bio that you're a "Design Leader" you pretty much aren't.