[thelist] Are Web designers a dying breed?

[Michael Barrett]

not to split hairs, but,
don't confuse *graphic* design with design.

graphics or imagery or visuals can certainly be content. they aren't design.
the *design* part come with choosing what visuals to express what content/
message/ idea/ feeling/ yadda/ yadda; choosing where and how those graphics
would be presented (layout, file format, optimization); and how the
presentation affects the content/ message/ idea/ feeling/ yadda/ yadda;
Design is problem solving.
Design can't be content unless you are talking *about* design
("Welcome to Bob's web design tips home page").
Design is the means to an end.
It doesn't exist without a purpose or a goal.

You can't have the "form vs content" fine art discussion with design.
Because design is method, it has no form, only practice.

-- Michael
-O^O-
 - 

> From: martin burns <martin at members.evolt.org>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:38:57 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Are Web designers a dying breed?
> 
>> on 7/25/00 5:57 AM, Roger Newbrook at roger.newbrook at mari.co.uk wrote:
>> 
>>> There's a hell of a lot of "fur coat and no knickers"
>>> sites out there
>> 
>> Design can equal content.
> Very, very rarely. And usually only where Art is an objective.