I just watched Frank Chimero's talk at Build. He mentions his search for what a designer is. It's a pretty great talk. Chimero puts out some incredible work and his thoughts on design are hardly about the "design" most people think of.
The designer you want isn’t the guy that just knows photoshop and delivers .psd files (or the html-illuminated designer that delivers html+css).
Are you suggesting that this person was ever a designer? As if the definition has shifted in the past few years? I don't think that person should have ever been considered a designer. It seems like the internet came up behind what design really is and shook it around for a while. Now the dust starts to settle.
Or maybe not. The guy who can throw together a PSD and the people who hire him aren't going anywhere until our thoughts on design spread outside of the design community. We're kind of insular, aren't we?
http://vimeo.com/17084347
The designer you want isn’t the guy that just knows photoshop and delivers .psd files (or the html-illuminated designer that delivers html+css).
Are you suggesting that this person was ever a designer? As if the definition has shifted in the past few years? I don't think that person should have ever been considered a designer. It seems like the internet came up behind what design really is and shook it around for a while. Now the dust starts to settle.
Or maybe not. The guy who can throw together a PSD and the people who hire him aren't going anywhere until our thoughts on design spread outside of the design community. We're kind of insular, aren't we?