Comments on: I am cool. I am a graphic designer.

By: Rebecca Tegtmeyer

Rebecca Tegtmeyer — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:25:38 +0000

I think you’re cool. Nice post, it has inspired me to reflect more on my journey into becoming a designer and what it means to me and others…perhaps you may have even MOTIVATED me.

By: Champuleon

Champuleon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:26:51 +0000

The only way I will think you are cool is if you drink a glass of Glenfiddich 30 Years Old, while smoking a Montecristo Media Noche in your beach house in Marbella with three models: one Brazilian, one Czech, and one Ethiopian, while they are dancing to Communication Breakdown by Led Zeppelin. Then, and ONLY then, will I think you are cool. In the meantime keep drinking you Palo Viejo while smoking a Phillie Blunt you bought at the Texaco across the street with the call girl from Santurce while listening to Tono Rosario. So cafre.

By: Otto

Otto — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:57:57 +0000

I don’t know that anyone who plays darts as poorly as you can be cool. But, damn, your design stuff certainly is. Maybe there’s an inverse relationship at play here … cool people do uncool things, uncool people do cool things …

By: Alfonso

Alfonso — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:19:10 +0000

Good thing I've never thought of you as being cool, either. Hehe.

But seriously, I think that -at least in PR- the cool factor presents somewhat of a downward spiral that feeds upon itself, where kids want to get into "graphic design" (namely, learning to use PS filters to color their anime characters and such) because it's so cool, and "graphic design" is so cool because look at all those PS filters you can use, man! For some reason, "design" seems to be about the tools and how far you can take them, instead of finding solutions and how effectively (and beautifully, sure) you can apply those solutions. It becomes a PS contest, which is pretty annoying, in my opinion.

There's material here for a whole series of discussions.