User:ThomasW/Notes The Designer As

Mccarthy, Steve (2013) The Designer As... Author, Producer, Activist, entrepreneur, Curator and collaborator: New Models for communicating, The Nederlands , BIS Publishing

Michale Bierut says “All good desiginers I admire have development a convictoin that the way they serve their clients the best is by bringing a strong point of view to the design/client relationship. This dosent always man simply imposinga strong visiual style on everything. It can also mean caring deeply about the meaning of the work, what the message are, [and] how they directed. Page 12

Rick Poyner: I don’t see a rupture in the postmodern 1980s and 1990s with graphic designs early phases so much as continuum. Smart designers have always had the vision, capacity and inclination to bring something more to their practice then “neutral service provision”. Page 44

UCLA Professore N. Kathering Hayles “It is impossible not to create meaning throught a works materialty. Even when the interface is rendered as transparent as possible, this very immediacy is itself an act of meaning-making that positions the reader in a specific material relationship with the imaginative world evoked by the text. Page 51

David Carson Don’t mistake legibility for communication” page 68

Micheele Trudo “Naming a typeface is incredibly important because it is a chance to lonk the poerty of letterforms with the poetry of abstract shapes with the poerty language page 85

J. Barnbrooke The fact that to many designers are constantly kissing corporate ass” page 87

Design is pure fiction – until it gets made page 93

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