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I took it to mean artists/designers in a corporate setting where it's a bit more cutthroat.

• TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
  More likely to be the corporate setting than the designers. I had no idea the originator of the Bondi Blue iMac was Danny Coster. I'd always assumed it wss Ive. Interesting he managed to take all of the credit for it.
  • azinman2 4y ago
    From the media you’d think he and Steve Jobs were the only two employees and responsible for 100% of any success. It’s much easier to personify a monolith under a specific individual. Tesla is only Musk. Gas prices and inflation are only because of Biden. The list goes on.
    • PraetorianGourd 4y ago
      I think you really captured the somewhat unspoken reality of it.. When you are a leader, things that go right are credited to you (Jobs, Musk) but when things go wrong, you get the blame (Biden). Of course the world is more nuanced than that but the power of narrative combined with the romance of “leadership” and you end up playing a high-risk, high-reward game
• DrewADesign 4y ago
  Beyond never having heard anyone conflate the terms 'artist' and 'corporate designer,' the sentiment would still be wrong. I've worked in corporate software projects as a developer, designer, support person, project manager, QA engineer, and even IT/Ops guy and would rank designers, on a whole, somewhere near last in terms of likeliness to be vindictive. Sales? Management? Even support? Sure. You can have vindictive jerks in any job, but considering that design's fundamental purpose is to empathize with people and manifest that it some medium, vindictive people tend to filter themselves out.