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July 14, 2008

Linkage from DO

Michael Blowhard writes:

Dear Blowhards --

Some fab links from the observant crew at DesignObserver:

* Watch a designer pull together a magazine layout.

* The latest art-stunt from Improv Everywhere featured sets of identical twins. Is it wrong of me to notice that Improv'ing Everywhere appears to be a very White People thing to do?

"Design" seems to be accounting for ever more of the world around us, doesn't it?

Best,

Michael

posted by Michael at July 14, 2008




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Re the art-stunt thing. When I see these things, I think: "Don't these people know that college is over?"

This performance art thing is for people who refuse to believe that Rhetoric 101 happened years ago. They are addicted to receiving gold stars from the teacher. This stuff is so lame, so unnecessary and so thoughtless that you'd think they'd give it up for a real job.

I didn't even watch the subway twins video. As soon as I saw the picture, I thought: "Shit, more rich kids with time to waste."

Years ago, what we now call "design" was called "layout." Design seems to be the gayification of the term. I'm a designer, but it seems to me, most of the time, that I'm doing layout. Why is the term "design" so preferable? Evidently, designing is thought to be more "creative" than laying out. Why, I don't know.

Posted by: Shouting Thomas on July 15, 2008 8:58 AM



One of the strangest things about White Culture is that it is full of taboos about acknowledging its own existence. Oddly, I think that both right- and left-wing perspectives shed some light on why we White People don't like to even admit we exist...as White People, that is.

Posted by: PatrickH on July 15, 2008 9:51 AM






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