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Design is reducing your padding-top 1px because your icon is not perfectly centered in the container.
(Written in the spirit of the old "Love is" postcards, feel free to add your own and tag with 'whatisdesign' : )
over 1 year ago
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Thomas Maier
Actually that isn’t design, that’s just technique. Or what you think is your design. But i get your point.
over 1 year ago
Oh, but the technique is also the design (although I realize this is a fine point that deserves a long conversation involving beer : )
Anyway, I’m not one to miss a chance to quote Charles Eames! : )
“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
(Tongue planted firmly in cheek, please don’t mistake me for some pedantic a**hole. I totally get the spirit of your comment : )
over 1 year ago
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Thomas Maier
No, design is art. Going into detail is maybe your style, a popular style on Dribbble, but it isn’t Design. Design is always something "new".
over 1 year ago
Dear Thomas,
I see, from perusing your web site, that you are "a young ambitious graphic designer and web geek".
This, in itself, is a very good thing. We sure need young talent. The only way our beloved craft keeps itself alive is by constantly receiving fresh inputs and pretty much reinventing itself.
However, you may want to wait some time before publicly stating in such a polarizing way what is your (current) opinion.
I'm sure your teachers are very capable ladies and gentlemen, and have no doubt taught you heaps. Still, we humans are fallible, dependent on subjectivity, and (this is the important part) nomadic in our opinions.
I'm not saying you are not right. You might very well be, and I might be totally wrong.
What I'm saying is this:
15 years from now, when you have a lot more experience under your belt, you will read this quote: "design is XXX" (believe me, you will, it's one of those things you keep stumbling upon in this business). And you will look upon your experience and think "yes, it is XXX. But it is also YYY, and ZZZ, and 123, and..."
And then you'll try to write something nice, full of your current wisdom, and will find out that a textarea (or whatever its equivalent may be in 15 years) is just too small, too impersonal and too dry for what you want to say.
Want to have some fun? Get one of your teachers apart, invite him/her to a beer or coffee and ask him/her:
"Dear teacher, really, what is design?"
Welcome, young craftsman. This is a very long journey, but the travel is really worth travelling.
over 1 year ago
Well said. The more experience I gain and the more education (edification?) I pursue, the more ways there are to think about something, the more viewpoints that are possible, and the more (often divergent) opinions I may have about something.
The one constant is that I am always changing my mind, always changing what I like (and dislike), and always striving to see things through the eyes of as many others as possible. Seeing the world in a singular way is comfortable, but seeing the world in many ways is exhilarating.
Oh, the possibilities.
over 1 year ago