Understood. Guess I'm just not quite with-it yet to fully understand the usefulness of texting... especially in a professional atmosphere. My CD texted me once, using the same code-speak his 14-year old step-daughter uses and it just weirds me out.
I've never had such delusions. I've always considered myself a designer that likes to create art on the side. When it comes down to it, I'm just a cog in the great wheel of selling a product. I do get satisfaction out of doing the best job I can, and I do enjoy the respect of fellow-designers, but I can't try and convince myself that my coffee shop logo is ever going to be considered fine art.
I think those designers who consider themselves 'artists' are the same that need constant ego-stroking, can't take criticism, and think their diaper packaging should be hanging in the Guggenheim along with Warhol's paintings.
In fact, that was part of Warhol's point... to question what is art and what isn't. But I personally feel that some designers are a little too full of themselves and what they do. It may take just as much talent and creativity as fine art, but the reasons for doing it and the results are nowhere near the same.
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