I considered purchasing the original 'Design Will Save the World' but I decided against it.
This new one on the other hand, holy balls would I buy that so fast. Put it on a darker tone and you have my dollars.
kat
· 1 year ago
Oh well, I don't think design will "save" the world but I do believe that art changes the world in many aspects. That's why is part of our history. Anyway, I love though the fact that a design can revoke a reaction and in such a creative way. I would wear both shirts in consecutive days at work lol...
mingled
· 1 year ago
It's ironic that the 'anti design' comment is laid out in a nice typographic way, could have even been designed to be like that.
Alupa
· 1 year ago
I hear what your screaming, and am totally buying in. The overwhelming majority of designers have their head so far up their ass that their ears should be checked for diamonds. Which, as a designer myself, is very easy to say, if not condone.
The first shirt is not my cup of tea, and the second design makes my cup runith over. It's good to know that somewhere in the realm of pretentious, over-thought and over paid design work there are still some believers that acknowledge the fact they are really just shills for the advertising companies. At least someone didn't sleep through art history class...
alexando
· 1 year ago
Actually, design CAN save the world. Read 'Cradle to Cradle' by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Like anything though, in regards to this tee, it needs to be taken into context. If you had a shirt that said, "LOVE will save the world," would you still reply the same way, when love without action is still only a feeling? Design CAN save the world, if it is part of the whole and some believe it WILL and I hope they back up that belief and thought with action and practice. I do; fybut does.
artemedia
· 1 year ago
I agree with you Karl, Frank actually doesn't know what he is talking about. As a designer himself I'd expect him to come across blogs like core77 that reveal that perhaps he is the "pretentious fuck"
People are fantastic, but apparently they sometimes waste time getting annoyed by absolutely harmless ideas. I think there are a lot of better places to go and rant. Printing this text on an organic t makes an important statement: green and social awareness do not always have to be ugly... or negative.
JayDub
· 1 year ago
First off, to react this way will get Frank what he wants: attention. And, Frank, if you think bringing your short-sidedness - if you're actually serious - into the semi-public light doesn't exactly make you look good, you could actually be right.
Design - in the broadest sense; not specifically someone who creates art - can actually materially contribute to saving the world. If a product doesn't work as advertised, it becomes landfill more quickly. If a product is made from nasty materials because the designer doesn't know any better, it will come back to haunt all of us. Bad design can also cause broken bones, blindness and long-term illness. This is not an overstatement, just fact.
And let's use your suggestion to work in a soup kitchen as a comparison of how effective it might be in relationship to a well-designed product. In a soup kitchen you are giving your two hours to feed (in direct relationship) up to maybe 60 people. Maybe more, but not 500. If a designer chooses to use a bio-plastic and renewable, farmed wood instead of petroleum-based plastic and trees cut down from a badly managed forest, he might help - admittedly indirectly - actually save thousands of lives.
Even a simple instance in which a seasoned design engineer takes an existing product, re-engineers it for simpler production and waste reduction can make a huge difference in the use of our resources. Check out V2 of the BoGo solar flashlight (http://www.bogolight.com/) for an example.
Frank, buddy, grow up.
NA
· 10 months ago
what a waste of realtime. it's not even well designed. jeez.
Albert
· 9 months ago
Nothing alone can save the world. Obviously. To say so, as does the former tshirt, is fucktarded. This poster is not saying design won't play a part in saving the world (though that statement alone has is it's own issues: the definition of saved in this context is completely subjective). It's mocking head-up-ass designers and, probably more often than not, design students who spend their days trying to think up some infinitely useful product that will single-handedly and radically improve the world and, unbeknownst to them, probably all ready exists in some rudimentary form. Most importantly, this is supposed to be half rant, half joke. Frank, I love this. Those of you who are insulting Frank, get a sense of humor.
P.S. I'm just guessing that you're the pretentious fucks he's talking about.
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thats really great
This new one on the other hand, holy balls would I buy that so fast. Put it on a darker tone and you have my dollars.
The first shirt is not my cup of tea, and the second design makes my cup runith over. It's good to know that somewhere in the realm of pretentious, over-thought and over paid design work there are still some believers that acknowledge the fact they are really just shills for the advertising companies. At least someone didn't sleep through art history class...
http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/proje...
I think there are a lot of better places to go and rant.
Printing this text on an organic t makes an important statement: green and social awareness do not always have to be ugly... or negative.
Design - in the broadest sense; not specifically someone who creates art - can actually materially contribute to saving the world. If a product doesn't work as advertised, it becomes landfill more quickly. If a product is made from nasty materials because the designer doesn't know any better, it will come back to haunt all of us. Bad design can also cause broken bones, blindness and long-term illness. This is not an overstatement, just fact.
And let's use your suggestion to work in a soup kitchen as a comparison of how effective it might be in relationship to a well-designed product. In a soup kitchen you are giving your two hours to feed (in direct relationship) up to maybe 60 people. Maybe more, but not 500. If a designer chooses to use a bio-plastic and renewable, farmed wood instead of petroleum-based plastic and trees cut down from a badly managed forest, he might help - admittedly indirectly - actually save thousands of lives.
Even a simple instance in which a seasoned design engineer takes an existing product, re-engineers it for simpler production and waste reduction can make a huge difference in the use of our resources. Check out V2 of the BoGo solar flashlight (http://www.bogolight.com/) for an example.
Frank, buddy, grow up.
P.S. I'm just guessing that you're the pretentious fucks he's talking about.