Alice Rawsthorn v International Herald Tribune: Recession. Depression. Slump. Crash. Whatever it’s called, and however severe it turns out to be, the economic crisis is bound to affect design. The question is how? Judging by design’s fate in past recessions, it will suffer in this one. Some designers’ clients will go out of business, and others will cut costs. Research and development budgets will be slashed. Designers’ jobs will be lost, and projects scrapped. But there may be positive consequences too. [naprej]
UPDATE:
Andy Rutledge na Design View:If you work at a medium to large interactive agency there’s a good chance you may soon lose your job, if you haven’t already. While the US is not yet in a recession (economic terms have specific meaning), a recession may indeed be imminent. [naprej]
Adam Whittaker, kot gostojoče pero na pri Benu Terretu (Noisy Decent Graphics):I worked at a branding and design firm during the last recession and set up RSW as a result of my experiences there. So here is my advice … [naprej]
Komisar razstave Enric Satué ponuja celovito analizo knjižnega oblikovanja,
ki je bilo osrednji del njegove poklicne dejavnosti zadnjih trideset let.
Nocoj v T5 [več]
Prepričan sem bil, da sem multiple master s tremi osmi pomotoma zabrisal stran. In sem zaradi tega bil slabe volje. Drevi sem pucal elektronski kasl’c, in TotiMaliMM zagledal med sporočili samemu sebi. Še dobro, da si ne zaupam glede bekapiranja.
“Len si ratal,” mi je očitala prijateljica prejšnji petek po telefonu. “Na maile odgovarjaš enovrstično in z nekajdnevno zamudo, nič več ne objavljaš na blogu …”
Well, resda tale prostor zadnje čase sameva. Če sem iskren, tudi drugih blogov ne berem več redno kot nekoč. Trpi tudi e-small talk. Cajt-not.
S prvim septembrom sem postal likovni urednik Dela. Še vedno delam naslovnice in superviziram Mag. S prvim oktobrom sem začel poučevati projektiranje črkovnih vrst na Visoki šoli za dizajn. Vmes se nam je zgodila selitev in nekaj kadrovskih sprememb v Designisu. In še vedno delam tudi tam.
Predmet debate. “From educators, industry commentators and even students, we constantly hear that graphic design as we know it is somehow over, as though it were no longer possible for designers to do what they once did.” - Rick Poynor (in naprej)
