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felinedev
felinedev aka devan das is a 26.03 year old boy, has been a member since August 18, 2007, has scored 288 submissions, giving an average score of 3.09.
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  Jan 12 '08 by felinedev        3 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
Designs and emotion/ the EMOTIONLESS?

I'm going to dissapoint those who might expect this to be a rant on how i relate emotion and design.
This blog is more a case in study where we can all participate:
During the course of scoring i came across a few designs that seemed to provoke certain people (including me in the case of "More_hands_more_chocolat"!) into being quite offended and even going to the extent of trashing sometimes very innocent designs (or so we think?)
The question is should design be sensitive to such beliefs and other peoples ideoligies...does a good designer mean
one who is able to create interest and send a message without being provocative?

OR

is it just that those who judge the design should be more open minded?

Before you comment..please check out the following links...to get what i'm talking bout.


http://www.threadless.com/submission/147041/More_hands_more_chocolate#lastcomment

http://www.threadless.com/submission/147099/Core_of_Truth#lastcomment

http://www.threadless.com/submission/139386/Oops#lastcomment


Peace!

Nestahope
Nestahope on Jan 12 '08 at 7:51am
Wow we have some similar feelings
BaronVonMonkey
   BaronVonMonkey on Jan 12 '08 at 8:04am
I definitely think you are welcome to criticise the designs, or be offended by them, but I do not think any artist, unless they choose to be, should be constrained by any blasphemy laws or by the sensibilities of a section of the populace. Whether the design is any good, however, is a completely different matter, as is, in the case of t-shirt design, whether anyone should wear it.

So, er, yes I absolutely think you can exercise your right to take offence, but I do not think you can demand a designer to back down purely because she has put forth something provocative. Certainly not on religious grounds anyway.

As to whether a designer should be sensitive to other's beliefs, well it really depends on what is being designed, and who it's being designed for. For a tee, I'd say not necessarily, especially if it is making a satirical or philosophical message. A tee design, however, needs to be good...

Sorry, rambled a bit there, but I hope you got my feelings on the matter
felinedev
felinedev on Jan 13 '08 at 9:33pm
BaronVonMonky..no no no..rambling is good!..especially wen u put across some valid points in the process:)
thank u 4 ur comments, i think ur right, definitely...nothing at all should contrain an artist's expression.
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