Design Is Honest. Advertising Is Lying.
I’m tempted to buy this tee-shirt. It’s mainly true, but not as true as it should be sometimes. Of course I would say that, I work in design (well, technically). In fact, I could very well be lying. Design is certainly lying if it claims that it’s not using overusing common typefaces with solid block backgrounds as an easy way to create a strong visual identity. I’m looking at you, Vodafone and Channel 4 OD!
June 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
You may be in design (sort of) but ultimately you’re still in advertising.
Aren’t you just designing adverts by making someone’s website look pretty?
June 18th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
“sort of”, cheeky bast!
Websites aren’t always advertising. Sometimes they themselves form the service a company is providing, and even so they no more advertising than a companies building is an advert, thus such designers are no more advertisers than civil architects are.
Or am I lying…