Posted by Steve on 02/13/07 02:13

| > | You're asking the wrong people. Try alt.design.graphics
| >
| > so one must first be a member of alt.design.graphics in order to
appreciate
| > asthetics.
|
| It's got nothing to do with aesthetics.
|
| The regulars in alt.design.graphics will give a different perspective on
| the query, such as the appropriateness of the particular graphic design
| for the intended purpose, or how it suits the particular business.

now THAT is funny. you like building strawmen?

| > therefore, anyone lacking such senses yet wants to understand
| > what makes up 'purdy', should add that ng to their new reader
immediately!
|
| Um, asking a bunch of geeks which picture they like better is pretty
| worthless. Ask some designers who do these things for a living and
| you'll get more useful input.

i'm not a geek...unless everyone is a geek. i suppose, by your logic,
graphic artists cannot be geeks.

attention all non-graphical people...wait, we are *all* graphical and are
very visually particular. it is more *marketing* than profession that drives
decisions like this. *sales* persons will have a better grasp of what is
going to have the best impact on the audience...NOT the graphic artist -
*sales* tells the artist what they'd like to see. i've not only created
graphics for sites, but i've called the shots as to what professional
graphics went into a site. that was how broad my umbrella has been as
project manager on several projects in the past.

finally, graphic artists are to 'appropriateness of the particular graphic
design for the intended purpose' as the software developer is to telling a
company what their business requirements are. neither drive business
decisions; they only facilitate. both the developer and the graphic artist,
in the end, are simply code-monkeys.

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