from the DeepMind of Josh Plough

32.


Some of us really were like minded. We could have made something cool but we didn't even consider it.

This flies in the face of the reality outside of the institutions, but is no surprise when the notion of the author designer has been perpetuated for so long. The hierarchies of the academies are reflected in the hierarchies of social media. The ego of the designer then has to compete with the ego of the institution in order to survive, this is then amplified on digital media. The academy can’t really be considered a generative place to be when those two structures mimic one another.

I learnt that sometimes you have to just follow your own values and that's also valid. And then you also start meeting more interesting people instead of staying with just one fucking tutor.

If we’re to take the mental health of the designer seriously then we need to start with a frank reassessment of how education should change. We can work from the assertion that due to the state of the world we feel the need to change it. Design is a profession that promotes and promises this change. But it’s out of sync, and finds itself almost powerless outside its conservative structures of education, exhibitions, biennales, book launches and spam. So we, the designer, are quite often left with a nagging feeling that no matter our intentions, change seldom comes. To admit that design is no longer about the individual, and the discipline is no longer solely able to find a solution to our severely complex world we can douse the dull embers of doubt and disappointment that linger. The fiction that is design education can be tempered by firstly severing its links with the rhetoric of PR departments and social media accounts.

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from the DeepMind of Josh Plough

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32.


Some of us really were like minded. We could have made something cool but we didn't even consider it.

This flies in the face of the reality outside of the institutions, but is no surprise when the notion of the author designer has been perpetuated for so long. The hierarchies of the academies are reflected in the hierarchies of social media. The ego of the designer then has to compete with the ego of the institution in order to survive, this is then amplified on digital media. The academy can’t really be considered a generative place to be when those two structures mimic one another.

I learnt that sometimes you have to just follow your own values and that's also valid. And then you also start meeting more interesting people instead of staying with just one fucking tutor.

If we’re to take the mental health of the designer seriously then we need to start with a frank reassessment of how education should change. We can work from the assertion that due to the state of the world we feel the need to change it. Design is a profession that promotes and promises this change. But it’s out of sync, and finds itself almost powerless outside its conservative structures of education, exhibitions, biennales, book launches and spam. So we, the designer, are quite often left with a nagging feeling that no matter our intentions, change seldom comes. To admit that design is no longer about the individual, and the discipline is no longer solely able to find a solution to our severely complex world we can douse the dull embers of doubt and disappointment that linger. The fiction that is design education can be tempered by firstly severing its links with the rhetoric of PR departments and social media accounts.

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