Comments on: An Interview with Graphic Designers Martin Venezky, Jon Sueda and Scott Thorpe http://trip.citiesxdesign.org/2009/07/an-interview-with-graphic-designers-martin-venezky-jon-sueda-and-scott-thorpe/ Cities x Design tells the story of how promoting local creativity and design adds value to cities Sat, 15 May 2010 10:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark http://trip.citiesxdesign.org/2009/07/an-interview-with-graphic-designers-martin-venezky-jon-sueda-and-scott-thorpe/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Mark Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:28:18 +0000 http://trip.citiesxdesign.org/?p=1303#comment-13 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!?? 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!??

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