An Interview with Graphic Designers Martin Venezky, Jon Sueda and Scott Thorpe

One Response to “An Interview with Graphic Designers Martin Venezky, Jon Sueda and Scott Thorpe”

1. 
   Mark
   on Aug 3rd, 2009
   @ 5:28 pm: 

   Nice – Great Ideas and Topics.

   Corporations and creative process a strange bedfellow indeed – why do we still need to justify/explain creative process to these folks? I have some ideas – but I am not sure it is possible or necessary? I rarely question my plumbers process – but I guess he is not “speaking” for me?? Maybe that is the issue – when we begin to speak for others. We become conduits for the corporation, they have in invested interest? RIght? I have been hammering away at this for 20 years or so now – and rarely does the project allow a laboratory environment! How can this BE???? I am in the wrong business??

   It is rewarding when you get the project that does allow this sort of exploration!

   In my humble view – design practice is still stuck primarily in a pragmatic communicative idea solving/selling science. Art making is about communicating solely from within, with personal constraints voluntarily placed and chosen based on my own experiences and interests. Is there a contradiction within these to processes overlapping? I have found it to be true! Designers do create artworks for sure – I hate the fact we need to justify it as Art. But I kinda understand why. When I follow my personal processes I arrive at a more personal solution, the scales tip from corporate communication to artful solution. I believe there is plenty of room for this – depending again on the client and message. My contention has always been about pursuing my own process within imposed constraints – and how I need to justify this within a creative team as well!? Having all the answers before beginning a project does not allow for discovery, ideas to proliferate.

   I love the comment about risks and taking them within the boundaries of a design project. This is what I respect about each of the speakers work. If we do not take risks how do we learn and stay inquisitive about the world and our own process. I know I become dead if I merely push pixels and arrive at the most obvious solution.

   BOOOORING.

   Thanks guys, now back to advertising…..sigh

   PS you guys need a better MIC – or compression rate!??