What it means to be a designer who's creative — Tanner Christensen
Look at the front page of sites like Dribbble or Behance and you’ll find an assortment of vibrantly colored, strikingly unique, beautifully laid out work. Despite the fact these sites tend to tout themselves as the place to find designers , much of what gets featured is art, not design
Illustrations by Kelsey Wroten for this article. Look at the front page of sites like Dribbble or Behance and you’ll find an assortment of vibrantly colored, strikingly unique, beautifully laid out work. Despite the fact these sites tend to tout themselves as the place to find designers, much of what gets featured is art, not design. “Can’t designers and artists be one-in-the-same?” Yes, of course, designers are often also artists and vice-versa. But the role assigned to—and the processes used by—each are strikingly different, for good reason. Something well designed is created with a…
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