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I've spent far too long in the "Design" world (I'm talkikg Design with a capital D). It's largely an ivory tower ego playground for the financially elite, but
by Oarch 1y ago
I've spent far too long in the "Design" world (I'm talkikg Design with a capital D).
It's largely an ivory tower ego playground for the financially elite, but with a creative side. It's a lot of relentless self-marketing with a generous helping of whatever buzzwords are in at the moment.
The designers are easy to spot. They wear boldly coloured look-at-me glasses and clothing. It's like a menagerie of rare birds. Find them at international Expos, Bienalles and design festivals (if in doubt, seek out a pavilion).
Their ideas are largely stale and reused. These people are born rich and die rich and affect very little positive change in the time between.
But - remove the glamour and apply design thinking to hard, thankless but important problems and it can be a pretty meaningful and worthwhile profession IMO.
- jama211 1y agoI’m not sure anything they wear could be more pretentious than your judgement of what they wear, to be honest.
- dandellion 1y agoThere are certainly more pretentious things to wear, but very few.
- jama211 1y agoSorry what?
- theandrewbailey 1y agoStereotypes exist because they have an element of truth. His description of designers aligns with mine.
- somewhereoutth 1y ago> These people are born rich and die rich and affect very little positive change in the time between. Sadly, with increasing wealth inequality, the rich are better able to keep out the talented but poor, with things like unpaid internships, access to professional networks gated by exorbitant college fees, insane rents in key cities, etc. There was a period in the mid 20 century when just talent and drive could get you very far. Should be no surprise that that led to a blossoming in the creative fields, and the converse more lately has led to their impoverishment.
- trainerxr50 1y agoI just assume the job of the designer is make everything look the same. Creativity is the domain of the artist, doesn't seem to have anything to do with design. I wouldn't knock the corporate designer costume anymore than knocking an investment banker for wearing a suite.