Public news / March 2006 / Standards, bah!
Standards, bah!
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada say "whatever" to web standards in their 2005 annual report.
14 mar at 23:41 by Scott
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Couldn't help but notice it is the society of "Graphic Designers" and not "Web Developers/ Designers." There is a huge difference in the school of thought between the two.
I really hate having to fix a graphic designers product here at work.
Nothing wrong with using tables for tabular data.
Lets not label all Canadians as standards-hating eskimoes. I mean, I've never even heard of such a society.
Obviously tabular data for tables is just fine, that's what it was meant for. Not for layout - and while quote can be interpreted differently, I get the sense the GDC is advocating a "change is bad" sort of mentality whether CSS is the future or not.
Yes it's the Society of Graphic Designers. And they beleive that Web Design is within their realm of ability.
So the differing school of thought is that, Graphic Designers think that designing web pages ends at appearance, and web designers/developers think (correctly I might add) that Graphic Designers can't design web sites properly.
There's a cool little article over Design Observer here:
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/012078.html#more
Said article take Google's logo as an example of anti-design, and then goes on to discuss how un-designed Google is in general.
Which is where I sat back and thought, "But Google's *well* designed!". Simple aesthetic, by amazing information design, hiding the entirety of Google's applications behind one simple text field.
I don't think print designers would get it.
I disagree Nico I am a graphic/web designer and i do 'get it' what i have seen for a long time is that web designers ( usually more developers ) dont 'get' graphic design thus their designs lack asthetically.
I for one would rather think of myself as a bridge in that gap and i think more people are moving toward that bridge. dont simply discount graphic designers and write them off as wanna be web designers.
if you want graphic designers to 'get' web desginer correctly then coax them into the fold, not dismiss them.
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