do you care?
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- studderine
Seriously, how do you keep caring about design?
- detritus0
I don't do it as my main job any more..
- detritus0
"transition to making product" seems to be a fairly constant trajectory for a lot of the people I've seen pass through these halls.
- Agree. I think at some point we all reevaluate and dip our toes in this, one way or another.Complexfruit
- prophetone0
absolutely. i'm not the greatest designer but man i will pixel police some of the more important things i do with no mercy. because it's gotta look right.
- prophetone0
do 'people' keep caring about design? not really imo. the world is going the way of chicken mcnuggets everywhere i look. no one has time to pay attention anymore it seems. i hope i'm wrong.
- scarabin0
i don't care about design. i care about art. i just do what i gotta do to get paid while learning what i can to make better art.
probably an ego thing
- rouncey0
Design is such an ephemeral sort of thing that the design you put sweat and tears into today will look dated in just a couple years.
- Not if you do your job well! 'Design' isn't about slapping on the latest fad...detritus
- its about satisfying the client ;)OP31
- OP31 is rightmonospaced
- i thought design was about solving problems?lessfloor
- imagineallthepeople0
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i don't care, in it for the money.
- utopian0
Between the death of Flash and every other website being a Wordpress template or $20 theme, I don't give a flying fuck about design anymore. It's just a nice paycheck.
"Designers killed design" - Sir Jony Ive
- <moldero
- BRAVO!!
GeorgesIV - Web design isn't the only kind of design. In fact, I am a designer and never touch the fucking things.monospaced
- canoe0
Utopian, I agree. I find it challenging. It is difficult to land a client that doesn't want to conform. To your point, unconventional would really stand out right now because these templates are killing us.
- Learn to sell, if what you propose makes more sense clients will gladly pay for better value.zarkonite
- Try designign something else besides websites?monospaced
- I design more than websites. Worked at BBDO. Thankscanoe
- And, whether I use templates or not is not the point. They are ubiquitous before me.canoe
- dbloc0
we never use templates where I work. Are you guys really using templates? Or are you just saying they are all over the web these days?
- the templates i use are more of a framework or app or whatever, their blank, except for my own site, straight up template 4 shamemoldero
- shame
aint nobody got time fo datmoldero - some good blank templates (like canvas) come with updates, leaving you to focus more on the design and leaving all that comparability shit to the devsmoldero
- compatibility shit to the devsmoldero
- keep mind there will always be compatibility issues, but going with a FW atop WP minimizes the timemoldero
- Web design is like... 1/1000th of actual design. Jesus.monospaced
- < take it back!dbloc
- yurimon0
QBN cares about design. they are trying to preserve this nice format and hot interface forever...
- OP310
I find that its a pretty easy job and even better if you are lucky enough to get a decent salary. I only love it when its fun, but those projects don't always happen.
- _niko0
i call Bullshit to anyone who says they don't care about design.
As soon as we see a new product or poster or car we immediately and passionately care the shit out of it one way or another lol
- Not really. I'm still utterly indifferent to iOS7, for example.Continuity
- Some people grow out of worrying about material things.canoe
- yeah but we always make a judgement call on the design good or bad, not the material thing per se_niko
- studderine0
I care then I don't care and back to caring again. It's a fucking emotional roller coaster, guys.
- Continuity0
Like detritus, it's not been my main job for quite some time. I've been working on general ideas for campaigns and stuff. I care about that, cos it's fun. I leave the caring about the minutiae of design to art directors and designers I work with.
- scarabin0
it depends on what you mean by "care"
obviously you want to do the job to the best of your ability and have a nice portfolio piece, but in some instances i think it's a mistake to become too emotionally involved in a project whose fate ultimately will be decided by some idiot client with an arbitrary idea of what's good, or by the mood of your creative director that day. i made that mistake many times and at a certain point it becomes necessary to distance yourself and not get too altruistic and think you're changing the world or something
- amen to that shitmoldero
- Hit the nail on the head, you did. Exactly this.Continuity
- Definitely true, you have to be somewhat detached from your workukit2
- ... unless you're the creative director =)zarkonite
- yurimon0
there is superficial caring, and then there is the deeper non superficial caring where your work has meaning...
- You're a commercial designer, not Leonardo Fucking daVinci. Your work has no meaning at all.Continuity
- Leonardo was a commercial artist of his time time, he invented shit for moneyyurimon
- Damn, I would hate to work with Cont - the craft means something to the designer assholecanoe
- I have a feeling whatever Cont is working on is more important than anything else.canoe
