Adrian Shaughnessy: The Designer as Buffoon
A very interesting take on the public image of a designer by Adrian Shaughnessy, guest observer today at Design Observer. Here's an excerpt:How galling this must be for designers from the “design-as-business-tool” school. They work tirelessly to promote design as the ultimate edge-giving device for the corporate world, and yet this is what big business thinks about designers. It is no less galling for those of us who view design as primarily an aesthetic and cultural activity. No one benefits when designers are treated as figures of derision. Yet perhaps we deserve to be lampooned? Perhaps we are guilty of such excessive self-absorption that we haven’t noticed that we are despised by those who can help us most? Perhaps our unspoken determination to be regarded as artists has resulted in our elevation to global laughing stock?
Something to think about...