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Wise Words

These are some words that I thought worth sharing that a designer friend, James Kearl, who sent them to me in regards to my Rapid Visualization post. This will interest perhaps more of you in the industry than not, but don’t fret, I’ve got some more good stuff coming for those of you who aren’t. This is what Jimmy James had to say,

“-that’s actually a very astute point- I mean, we all know about design professors… but the idea that training all minions to use the exact same style is diluting the design world is an interesting theory.

In fact what probably made design so eye-opening, world changing, (or whatever you want to call it) in its heyday is that everyone came from different backgrounds, and used that experience to create fantastic designs; beautiful expressions of their various histories. Some were artists, some were engineers, but all had to struggle, had to learn and endure, before they could create something lasting. When we all just sit at the same desk and learn how to make the same perspective cubes, we all come up with the same mp3 players.

Personally I believe that struggle to create is the most crucial component of anything we do. When things get streamlined and synergized, designers become no better than the engineers we mock.

The same thing happens in all forms of art- that’s why rock and roll has sucked since Led Zeppelin, and Law and Order is on every television network.”

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