Is there any company out there that actually respects the designer’s expertise in real day to day work and does not do design by committee or is it the nature of the field that everyone and their pet wants to get involved?
I can’t help, but wonder what is the point of hiring a really good, very experienced designer if you’re going to have a bunch of non-designers make all the design decisions? Like the VP of Marketing who’s constantly hovering above my head like a fucking helicopter.
Why not hire a junior designer and hump him all day instead? It would be a whole lot cheaper and the result would be exactly the same.
This is like your mom going for surgery and you and four other relatives standing there in the operating room and directing the highly experienced surgeon (you insisted on hiring) during the fucking operation.
- Make an incision here. No, not here. Two inches to the right. Yeah, that looks good.
- Stick your hand in and pull on that. What is that anyway? Bob, any idea? No? Hmm… We need input from Cindy. Cindy, come here… What do you think that is?
- Hey, what if we cut over here as well? Not here. Riiiight there… What would that do? That could be interesting. Oh shit, that’s a lot of fucking blood! I think she’s flatlining! Sow it up, sow it up!
- [Whispering] Man, this surgeon sucks… Mother fucker almost killed her!
Do pilots get constant advice on how to fly a plane by the passengers? I’m sure there would be plenty of passengers who’d like to get involved like every fucking control freak on the plane, or in other words, everyone in business class.
Maybe that’s the real reason they have a bullet proof door to separate the cockpit from the rest of the plane. It’s not the terrorists they’re worried about. It’s 700 pilot wannabes.
I want my own fucking cockpit, damn it!
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Tags: cockpit, committee, design, disrespect, expert, expertise, respect, wannabee, work
There is no such thing as true originality no matter how much the artsy fartsy or business types love to talk about it. Everyone gets ideas and inspiration from someone else. In any creative field. Period.
Anytime someone starts to go on and on about how original they are or someone else is I wanna take my dirty sock off and stuff it in their piehole.
Everyone steals ideas from everyone else! Everyone. No exception.
Some steal only in small parts and add their own spin. We call that inspiration.
Some completely rip off someone else’s ideas. The point is we all do it to some extent. And there’s nothing fucking wrong with it!
What’s annoying is that people are completely unable to admit it and constantly trash others’ work for supposedly not being original enough with their obnoxious “hollier than thou” attitude.
Most of these people are just stupid jackasses who follow the latest trend or fad in whatever creative field they happen to be in. Yet, in their own twisted view of the world they are more original than everyone else.
The current web 2.0 (super minimalistic, huge buttons, fields and text) trend in web design is a great example. I mean, I actually like it, but it’s not the only way to design a website, yet every company is now trying to do that like they’ve just discovered the fucking holy grail.
To hear them talk one might think that the evolution of web design has been complete and the web 2.0 style is its crowning achievement. We are done, people. Nothing else to see here.
Two years later all these same people will say, “Eeew, how 2007!” when looking at a web 2.0 site because they have just latched on to a new trend.
Just like they do now when you show them some amazingly beautiful, creative, detailed, difficult to produce website designed back in 2004.
- Eeew, it sucks. So 2004!
Oh, stuff a fucking sock in it already!
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Tags: attitude, creative, creativity, design, fad, hollier than thou, originality, style, trend, web 2.0, web design
