If you ever end up starting your own business, or if you work in management or in marketing, chances are that sooner or later, you’ll end up having to face off with one of us Graphic Designers. Now, I’m not positive, but if what I’ve seen portrayed in various media outlets is any indication, we’re viewed as a sometimes frustrating, often eclectic bunch who is occasionally fun to screw with. I believe the latter part comes out of a desire for revenge against our innate nature to question, be creative and do all the other things that us designers do to apparently waste your time with.

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A key to understanding anyone is to not only understand their likes, their history, and the way they go about doing things, but their dislikes as well. In this corner: graphic design. And in the other corner: Comic Sans.

Designers who are reading this may already be experiencing a rise in body temperature and a slight vibration in their forearms - what you feel is your blood beginning to boil. The unfamiliar are either a) entirely confused at this point or b) recognize “Comic Sans” as the word they selected from the “fonts” menu the last time they sent their mom an email.

are sadly more known to the public than real ones. I thought it’d be fun to start a list of Graphic Designers, or references that make design ‘cool’, in movies, tv, books, etc. I’ll start with a couple:

_Juno 2007, where she says “Ick! I don’t want to give my baby to a couple who describes themselves as “wholesome.” I was looking for, maybe, a thirty-something graphic designer with a cool Asian girlfriend who kicks ass on the bass guitar, but I don’t know, I don’t wanna get too particular.

In terms of the logic our bodies impress upon us to obey, human experience derives from a primary perception whose range is mediated by our five senses – vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste; a secondary objectification whose filter is mediated by an ego; and a tertiary signification that is granted by a necessity. Given this, one may choose to argue the virtue of a vocation that entitles oneself the full, or as close to as possible, mastery and understanding of human perception; as well, the ability and clear-sightedness to employ it; in turn rendering within themselves the most able of agency to be a human.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Beta One release of design explained. I am pleased to be making the site available to all of you as early adopters. What you see before you represents the culmination of several weeks worth of work (months if you count the time spent on my thesis, which gave birth to this concept), and it is hopefully an idea which will bring something new to the design community, as well as the general community.