do you care?
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- OP310
but do you care this much?
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- studderine0
Is this natural? I've hit the 5 year mark and sometimes my interest fluctuates.
- Yeah, just like everything else in life... the flame dies down, but you'll get it up again.canoe
- pango0
I care cuz it bothers me how things look and work.
- PonyBoy0
My 'love' for design has deteriorated but my desire to produce quality work for my clients has not.
I dropped the 'uniform' years ago and pretty much dress like Jeffrey Lebowski these days... and I have literally lost 'friends' because I don't keep up the expensive carbon copy appearances...
I still find myself inspired by a quality EC post... I still scour the web, books stores, thrift shops, antique stores, museums, art walks etc etc always looking for inspiration so I suppose I do still 'care'... I just don't have the 'lust' to show it outside of making sure my work keeps me consistently fed.
- benfal990
When I was 18 to about 24~26 i was caring a lot. Now Iam 35 and i dont know, the game has changed.. Something was happening in 1999~2005 ... all the web community around graphic was so cool, funny because we no social media, we only had emails, but it was more friendly and i had the feeling to take part of something. QBN is all that remains from that era. Like the web was smaller at that time and now its so huge, we're all lost.
- benfal990
When I was 18 to about 24~26 i was caring a lot. Now Iam 35 and i dont know, the game has changed.. Something was happening in 1999~2005 ... all the web community around graphic design was so cool, funny because we had no social media, we only had emails, but it was more friendly and i had the feeling to take part of something. QBN is all that remains from that era. Like the web was smaller at that time and now its so huge, we're all lost.
- _niko0
^it was a bit like the wild west, endless possibilities, making it up as we went, everything was an undiscovered country, full of wonder and promise.
Along the way Neilsen happened, Steve Jobs happened, everything became more and more standardized, more compliant, too much analysis too much SEO, too much numbers and science behind it all, design lost its soul.
Don't get me wrong there are tons of amazing things still being done, but innovation is hard to come by, design seems to be going in circles, maybe it's reached a saturation point where all that can be done has been done and available as a plug-in.
To once again paraphrase a wise man from QBN (moldero possibly)
"Web design is now editing other nigger's WP templates"
- OSFA0
Beats doing landscaping, accounting, or any other mind-numbing job out there. How do I care? By being grateful for being able to do what I love and enjoy. Not everyone out there is that lucky...
- nb0
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
- nb0
- freedom0
ARE YOU GUYS ALL WEB PEOPLE???
- is anyone strictly print anymore?_niko
- it's not just web/print, guys. It's branding, it's environment, it's experiences, it's systemsmonospaced
- cars, architecture, lighting, furniture... design is so much more than talking about a dying techmonospaced
- and if your'e doing your job right, you can do all of it a little bitmonospaced
- jacklalane0
Caring less as the years wear on, job security just as important as design. Wondering often if I will really be doing this when I am in my late 50's. Where do the old designers go?
- yep always my concern - should be a business owner by then I imagine.fadein11
- OSFA0
Yes, what happens when you hit 50 and you are not Michael Bierut or Sagmeister?
- Maaku0
It's all about cycles and repetitive behavior.
- benfal990
it's true, where do the old designers go? I think we have to work hard to stay in the game when we hit the late 40's and enter the 50's to the end of our carreer. We will need to keep up with the technology and tendencies for the rest of our carreers.
- we won't understand the technology in our late 50's unfort.fadein11
- old designers go to a nice retirement community where all the way signage is in co mic sa nsprophetone
- lolOSFA
- We will never stop learning, will keep us young.Maaku