Aaron Draplin — Logo Design Challenge
Draplin discusses his creative process for designing a comapny logo. He begins by drawing different styles of the company’s name, and then continues on his computer. His method is straightforward and simple, yet renders his designs relatively unique due to his multistep method of creating small differences in the design and saving each one so that every rendition of the logo is readily available. Would you agree that the small differences in logo design are important as Aaron Draplin makes them?
Rose-Stockwell — This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
Accoridng to Stockwell, our news is increasingly being curated by a code rather than a news editor. Many people are beginning to discover news through their through Social Media, such as the News Feed on Facebook, which uses a code to display different posts largely based on how much ‘engagement’ the post generated, in terms of likes, comments or clicks. This gives news providers an incentive to circulate stories that will elicit an emotional response from the viewer because, according to the article, these types of posts generate the most online engagement. Unfortunately, the effect is that more emphasis and visibility is given to sensational stories that shock, excite, scare or anger the reader rather than accurate, albeit less exciting, stories that inform the user. Judging from your own experience with social media news feeds, would you agree?
Micheal Beirut — Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content
There is the idea, even among graphic designers, that the world of design is separate from the content that is being designed. The best designers design what they are interested in; you cannot have “empty-headed graphic design” (13). In order to be truly successful, you have to understand the topic you are designing for because there is a community and atmosphere within that topic. Would you agree that there is a personal element to graphic design that is important to the work itself?
Also, there are two schools of design: process schools (“Swiss”; form-driven problem-solving) and portfolio schools (“slick”; more focused on the product than the process). While each school hates each other, they both share the fact that they value the way graphic design looks, not what it means. The visual is most important across the board for designers. Modern design education is pretty much value-free, and there is an increasing passion towards technology. However, do you think that graphic design should be considered a value-free pursuit?
Art, Design, Code 