The Creative Industry Labor Market

In the essay, I am going to analyse the text from the second edition of “The culture of design” by Guy Julier and answer if I agree or disagree with the author’s view of contemporary design. The book features a well-written account on how the world of design has been influenced over the years and offers a unique overview of design practice in contemporary culture and society. It explores the different interpretations of the term “design culture” and Julier uses a series of case-studies to illustrate his points. I will be evaluating his opinions and thoughts on design and the growth of the industry as they arise in the book and conclude my opinion at the end of the

Design has become one of my greatest passions in my life, one that I never grow tired of and constantly wish to improve upon. This is why I chose to become a graphic design major, so that I could constantly interact and learn about design even once I enter the career force. Design is a puzzle that when solved correctly can reach people like words could never do. I have known that I would enter a creative field since a child, though it wasn’t till recent years that my love of graphic design truly blossomed.

The boundaries and scope of design have broaden massively and the limits blur amongst the different endeavours and practices.

Arguably, humanity is re-designing the planet Earth every hour of every day, either deliberately by rational planning or inadvertently with billions of unconsidered actions, and in the main ruining it. We all carry a responsibility for the destruction and therefore we all need to mend our ways, but of course some groups within society have more power than others to take remedial action: engineers, architects, planners and designers for instance. If they became pro-active rather than re-active, they could play a crucial role: their skills, imagination and ingenuity could help preserve the planet for future generations.

At Rhode Island School of Design, within the Industrial Design major, creativity abounds, manifesting in the 3-D models, professors, and the students’ orthographic drawings. When redesigning a mixer for the Pre-College Program final, I created numerous designs focusing on various subjects: aesthetic, ergonomics, and specific demographics. Each one has its pros and cons, each one has its special feature and each one fulfills its purpose and the teacher’s requirements. The process of discovering a new way to answer the same question over and over again yields endless possibilities. Constantly refining my product and playing with new ideas before falling asleep is an adventure, despite some sleepless nights due to the excitement. Besides the actual application of the practice, the history of industrial design fascinates me as well. How were products designed in different ages, in different countries? Why was aesthetic placed over ergonomics in terms of importance when creating this chair? How has visual language in these products developed through the

If you could imagine design in the future, what would you imagine? A virtual house, flying cars, or how about holograms. Design is the process to plan or draw the show, look, function or workings of a building, garment, or other objects before it is built or made. It is twenty seventeen and we have already begun to see the future. In the past, design was beautiful, but simplistic. Now, everthing is changing expediently. I speculate that with a touch of your cell phone a house will be produced within seconds. Which I believe might cause design to become more of a competitive field, filled with innovators from the future, gives a new meaning to a whole new world. How will building and car designs be transformed in twenty years you wonder? New

Design is what I called the spreading of my mind. It is the act that I use in my day to day

Pages 16 and 17 discussed how businesses need to expand their workforce by allowing fresh, innovative minds into fields that are considered. While getting my minor in art, I noticed how some very talented

Graphic designers are visual communicators and problem solvers who, to some extent, all have the same basic goals. Jennifer Morla and Bruce Mau both utilize a sleek and concise design approach to each project they take on; however beyond this basic level of communicating and problem solving, the end goal of a designer’s work can vary dramatically. Mau’s work looks at problem solving beyond aesthetics and more so on a global scale, while Jennifer Morla’s work focuses on creating a unique and new solution for each client.

Today, people can feel the changes that have happened to the design, and how the design is different from what we used to know. The design is not merely about how the product looks, but also it is about how the product works. The success of the design process depends on new and creative ways of thinking. In her article " ZIBA Design and the FedEx Project," Maggie Breslin describes the changes in thinking and working ways that being done by ZIBA design, which is a product design company that provides consulting about design and innovation. The article relies on the FedEx project as a case study on ZIBA design to illustrate the idea that design process might shift. The change in the design process periodically focuses on three major subjects:

There’s always a meaning behind why a design looks, function and developed that way. These decisions made should constantly be thoroughly discussed and consider social, economical, sustainable and ecological impacts. Design does not only affect us human. It affects everyone, everything. Humans, animals, ecosystems, and the food we eat, the water we drink the air we breathe and thus; the natural environment. Environmental writer Emma Marris argues that “[i]n different places, in different chunks, we can manage nature for different ends” and that designers can have an important role in communicating diverse ideas about how nature should be managed in their work”. Do they begin with an idealised ‘baseline’ framework or do they take a more pragmatic

We are all part of an interlinking system, a system that needs balance with humanity and nature at the forefront. As Designers it is important that we take self interest out of design and instead collaborate within our physical environment and make sure that from the get go, our designs should work around a collaborative system that has a wide breadth of professional fields and influence from existing infrastructures found within our world. Victor Papernak writes “eighty percent of the environmental impact of the products,services, infastructures around us is determined at the design stage.” I have chosen to explore collaborations within the natural world, our industrial ecology and social design as examples of how important working together with other professionals and the environment we live in are for the bigger picture. In Victor Papernak’s book Design for the real world, Papernak uses an anecdote to stress the importance of collaboration for successful design.

Meredith Davis’s book “Graphic Design Theory” was published in September 2012 by Thames & Hudson. This book blends a study of historical thinking of design with contemporary / modern approach to it. It also suggests students to critically analyse their work and asks them to adopt the design theories to embellish their practical design work as it will help them construct better work. This book also helps in understanding the consumers and the history of Graphic Design and also talks about a range of theories and introduces a collection of concepts and sources for future use and reference. In this book, Meredith Davis talks about the relationship of visual representation to the contexts of design. It talks about focusing on the broad and long term aftereffects of design and not to design only for the moment and responding to prompt needs.

Ecological design is the sole responsibility of innovation and the creativity of products and objects that will sustain our society and future societies. It is critical that we change the way sustainable design is perceived and interpreted, by beginning to develop an understanding of the history and journey from ‘Green design’ into ‘Sustainable design’ as well as looking at the direction in which we would like it to progress to. This requires a comprehension of what these initial terms mean and how this relates to their cultural, social and economic context, all of

My experiences in different creative disciplines and working with unique individuals over the years have had a positive impact on my communication and relationship building skills. I have strong presentation skills - including creating visually stimulating presentation slides for pitching design projects and presenting them to clients to communicate and share information articulately. Meeting clients and liaising between client and the design studio had been one of my prime roles as a