This section is not about web design, interior design, product design, kitchen design, industrial design, fashion design, or even graphic design. It is about “design” in general, which has to do with all of those things, but is no one of them specifically. What is design? While I haven’t heard a great definition of what “design” is, this article on design vs. art is a good place to start.
In no way is this an attack on anyone…well, maybe it is, but if it is, I’m attacking myself as much as anyone else.
This is for all you designers. You creative types. You who work with branding. You people at the advertising, marketing, and design firms and who, in the 80s and 90s, wore thick-rimmed glasses and black turtlenecks. This…
If you’re a designer, this song is for you.
I don’t usually beg, but please, please go listen to the brief Marketplace piece on what fonts to avoid using. Comic Sans might look fun and quirky to you, but it’s painful to the rest of us who have a smidgen of design sense.
