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They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but that’s not true; you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. You can, and chances are you do it all the time, so better make sure that cover is good, right?
They also say a picture’s worth a thousand words, and that’s where graphic design comes in. When you’ve got a split second to convey a real message, subtle though it may be, you’ve got to make it count. How you do that is a little bit of a tougher question, and one that this episode of PBS Off Book dives right into. So take a minute to learn about and come to appreciate that silent, subtle signals you see surrounding you every day. There’s a lot to appreciate when you look in the right places. [PBS Off Book]
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This is so pretentious.
I think the reason I won’t do well in life is because I’m not pretentious enough. When people ask what I do I tell them I’m a designer. When they ask what it involves I tell them “Mainly just keeping within the lines”.
Maybe I should start bigging myself up like these guys. “Oh yes, well actually it’s all about the FEELING and MOMENTS and making places where cars drive garishly distracting.”
Couldn’t agree more with you. I’m a designer too but I can’t stand networking with (most) other designers. It either looks good & does the job, or it doesn’t.
Graphic designer also, but you’ll never get anywhere with those mentalities. Don’t like networking? This isn’t your field. Don’t know how to sell yourself? This isn’t your field.
It’s a highly competitive market gents, learn how to get noticed or be poor forever.
My opinion is if you need to shout about yourself then you’ve generally got very little to shout about. When I see these people peacocking all over the place I can’t help but think “Man, your portfolio must be SHIT.”
Hopefully my work will speak for itself when I need it to.
Hopefully.
“Hopefully my work will speak for itself when I need it to.”
It won’t, nobody will even look at it because they are too busy looking at the guy who was shouting’s portfolio.
Well then I’ll stay poor and dignified, and much happier for it!
Really enjoyed that. Great designers eloquently explaining their design principles. I especially liked the book design segment. These guys have been asked to explain their views and what they like about their jobs, asked because they are good at it, they aren’t pretentious in my opinion. What sort of feature would it be if they asked them ‘what’s good design’ and they just said ‘my portfolio speaks for itself’ film over in like 5 seconds haha