http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1520 ‘How Designers Fail’ ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:46:44 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/#comment-1520 [...] [D]esign has become synonymous with fame. Go to school; learn design; get a degree; get a job; and get famous. This is the American Idol Paradox: as more and more people take pride in looking at themselves or getting looked at by others, less and less of us will actually become famous – fame may even disappear. Paradox aside, design isn’t about fame – it’s about unfame. Servicing the client is one of the most unfamous things you can do because it’s their name and their dollar [Cf. Saville]. [...] [...] [D]esign has become synonymous with fame. Go to school; learn design; get a degree; get a job; and get famous. This is the American Idol Paradox: as more and more people take pride in looking at themselves or getting looked at by others, less and less of us will actually become famous – fame may even disappear. Paradox aside, design isn’t about fame – it’s about unfame. Servicing the client is one of the most unfamous things you can do because it’s their name and their dollar [Cf. Saville]. [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1028 FAC 461 ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:17:37 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/#comment-1028 [...] side table. It was design in the service of something else. It would take Peter Saville decades to angrily realize he had chosen a field that worked at odds with self-expression. It isn’t completely true, as he [...] [...] side table. It was design in the service of something else. It would take Peter Saville decades to angrily realize he had chosen a field that worked at odds with self-expression. It isn’t completely true, as he [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/comment-page-1/#comment-946 Peter Saville, get your story straight ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:00:26 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/#comment-946 [...] Were you delusional for thinking that graphic design is a forum for personal expression or not? “Record covers gave me uncompromised freedom and an incredibly large audience to speak to. And it influenced that audience, for better or worse.” [...] [...] Were you delusional for thinking that graphic design is a forum for personal expression or not? “Record covers gave me uncompromised freedom and an incredibly large audience to speak to. And it influenced that audience, for better or worse.” [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/comment-page-1/#comment-734 ‘It took ages to get the right yellow’ – Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:32:52 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/#comment-734 [...] I prefer the fictitious Peter Saville to the real one we’re stuck with now (q.v.). [...] [...] I prefer the fictitious Peter Saville to the real one we’re stuck with now (q.v.). [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/comment-page-1/#comment-678 LazyWeb request: Evert Bloemsma – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:46:25 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/mid-life/#comment-678 [...] I’ve been thinking more about this in the wake of the Peter Saville podcast. After much rumination, I have finally come to understand his tone of voice in that recording. It is a voice like Richard E. Grant’s in The Player, one that is disillusioned and disabused of all dreams and aspirations. A man who, from the word go, achieved personal expression by illustrating other bands’ concert posters and album covers eventually gives in and admits that he and other designers were always in the thrall of clients all along. [...] [...] I’ve been thinking more about this in the wake of the Peter Saville podcast. After much rumination, I have finally come to understand his tone of voice in that recording. It is a voice like Richard E. Grant’s in The Player, one that is disillusioned and disabused of all dreams and aspirations. A man who, from the word go, achieved personal expression by illustrating other bands’ concert posters and album covers eventually gives in and admits that he and other designers were always in the thrall of clients all along. [...]

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