On 17 Mar 2009, at 13:20, Odeluga, Ken wrote:
It's just a forum, we're just 'shooting the breeze', it's not gospel
or
anything like that, rather it's opinion. I think that's clear to most
people.
It is something that is often stated tho Ken and worth pointing out
but yeah...
I'm interested in your 'it's not just for the consumer' idea though.
While I can see what you mean to an extent I think it needs to be
balanced with just those very consumer orientated imperatives that
that
sort of idea seems to eschew. Or else what are you doing what you're
doing for? Art with no audience?
There's a difference and the example I'd use is the difference between
a designer and an artist:
Designers are skilled at creating aesthetically appealing controls and
displays, conveying function graphically, devising consistent graphic
styles for use throughout a product, matching the graphic to the
display technology – presenting data in such a way that users can
extract information easily.
Artist(e) are engaged in the manipulation of formal qualities of a
particular medium to produce an aesthetic response, with total
disregard of constraints on the forms produced. This concept underlies
the work of all modern artists – surrealist, sculptor, painter,
conceptual to abstract expressionist.
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