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Originally Posted by jase1000
top designers are as well recognised as top artists. I made the shift from art to design because the art world has so much bullshit attached to it.
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Agree, but it takes a long time to generate a demonstrable body of work which affords you that reputation, what pisses me off is the assumption you should have that kudos simply because you have a design qualification. I don't believe in being a design workhorse (although you could argue that is what a jobbing designer is), but as part of an agency if one of the clients is adamant about the way something should look then we do it that way to mantain client relations, I work as part of a team, each design I'm involved in is usually the culimination of a few people working together - if we threw our toys out everytime something didn't go our way creatively then nothing would get done. I can't be the only designer with client pleasing sensibilities here?
designer - here are the visuals for your project
client - hmmm.. nice, would blue be better
designer- no, red communicates more clearly the underlying sense of urgency that is prevelant in this piece.
client - I understand that, but change it to blue
designer - no, I will not compromise my artistic integrity for you
client - I'm paying you a lot of money for this
designer - pah, money - who needs money - I work for the love of design, it's forms, it's functions, if I cannot create beauty I will die.
client - go away.
designer - you'll rue the day you ever said that to the recently graduated design sensation about to take london by storm
client - go away.