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Real Graphic Design isn't cheap. Identity design from a SF studio can run you into the thousands. $10k, easily. (If you're a big corporation, add one or two ord
by SeoxyS 15y ago
Real Graphic Design isn't cheap. Identity design from a SF studio can run you into the thousands. $10k, easily. (If you're a big corporation, add one or two orders of magnitude to the bill.)
Now of course you can find stock and spec work on sites like 99designs—but that isn't real design. Rather, I consider it an affront to the profession. It will give you the same quality of work that outsourcing development to indian or russian kids for $5 an hour would get you.
EDIT: I wonder why I'm being downvoted for this. I know it's unpopular to elevate design, but it makes a huge difference. And after spending 4+ years of our life and $200k at design school to master the craft, I think designer's true worth and skill deserve some recognition.
- urrong 15y agoYou are wrong. Very wrong. You just come across as trying to raise the value of web designers. I don't think its worth that much to most people and never will be.
- erickhill 15y agoConsider Apple product design from beginning to end and how dramatically it has impacted humanity at least 5 separate times. Apple //, Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone. Design matters. And this applies to the Web, of course, too, just like almost anything else.
- _harry 15y agoPepsi paid over $1 million dollars for it's latest logo redesign. http://adage.com/article/agency-news/breathtaking-word-purported-arnell-pepsi-doc/134552/ http://adage.com/article/agency-news/breathtaking-word-purpo... Check out the 27-page report about the logo: http://adage.com/images/random/0209/pepsi-arnell021109.pdf http://adage.com/images/random/0209/pepsi-arnell021109.pdf
- karanbhangui 15y agoI've always found that pepsi logo report so forced.
- Wilduck 15y agoIt's probably in part because you assume $200k and four years will make you a "master." That load of arrogance in turn makes it hard to accept the rest of your points. Some Russian/Indian kids are better that those with expensive CS degrees. This forum is about sparking useful discussion. Claiming that there is One True Way to design is overly self promoting.
- jtchang 15y agoThere are two types of design: you are talking about the one with the big 'D'. I think spec work such as 99designs is perfectly fine if you are looking for someone to create something pretty. Just like in programming there are some things that are trivial and are easily outsourced. A plain website with static HTML and maybe a contact form? Simple. But once you start talking about big 'D' design then you have something else all together.