Posted by sabine7
Announcements | 10 Jan 08 | Comments (3) | Stumble
Over a year ago we asked MoCo Loco readers to submit questions that they most wanted answered by designers we feature in our weekly 2 Questions segment. We stuck to the top 3 questions for a year:
1. The world is already full of stuff; why do you make/design more?
2. What two modern day conveniences can you not live without? How you would change/improve them?
3. Art Deco, Mid-Century, Post-Modern… is it possible to describe the ‘design’ era we're currently in?
The first question applies to us as consumers as well; why do we buy more stuff? The second was about tools and products, and again we ask ourselves what devices make our work lives work at all. And the third helps us situate ourselves in relation to this common passion.
Now it’s time to change the questions up a little (or maybe not). This is where we need your help. What new questions would you like us to ask? Do we stick to the old chestnuts that are sustainability-related? Do we try to dig up quirks? What should we ask to help place design within a larger context? And who would you like to see interviewed?
Send us your questions. We’ll create a poll and take a vote.
How about...
How's your relationship with the companies you design for?...
or maybe
Can a design live forever?
the unexpected is always the most interesting, so ask for it. I want a designer to tell me something about their work or viewpoint that only they could say, an inward opinion or a unique idea.
it's interview cheating a little to ask what's "most interesting about you", but the state of design and historical perspective are too easily impersonally dodged. I think if someone has a unique or polemical view that'll come out.
I think someone could phrase it better, but here's the gist.
"When you think of your practice and design in general, which of your ideas do you think is the most unexpected"
From your knowledge or experience, does there exist (somewhere) a "political" object-design ?
A question from a graphic designer who always has to cope with clichés such as "make the logo bigger", "the audience will not understand, make cheaper", "it's for the people, make it 'pleasant'" = design driven by the client's communication prejudice and not by legibility interest or customer 'respect'.