Questions and Answers
This is a new project, my intention is that it will be an ongoing interview/discourse where many people ask questions or raise points for discussion.
Questions are arranged in the order they were asked, newest questions at the top. Please keep all questions civil, I will edit this page as I feel necessary.
Q: In some of your works you have asked people to participate for example "do something different." I am interested in knowing whether you consider the outcome the property of whoever made it or yours because it is your idea and you designed the system?
Q: Chicken or Egg
Q: Do you carry out your projects with a reason or aim behind them, or do you have the idea (no matter how ridiculous) and pursue it just for the fun of exploration?
A:
All projects are pursued for the fun of exploration.
All projects are pursued for a reason.
All projects are pursued with an aim.
All projects are pursued with curiosity.
All projects are pursued with belief
All projects are pursued with love.
All projects are pursued with excitement.
All projects are pursued with passion.
All projects are pursued with commitment.
All projects are pursued with open arms.
All projects are pursued without cigarettes.
Q: Do you watch Big Brother?
Q: is there a place for the commercial designer as commentator? do you feel a designer can / should involve their own agenda in a paid clients work?
A: I think its impossible not too: from the projects you accept; the people you work with; the food you eat; the cloths you wear; the way you live; each small choice/decision becomes apart of your larger social and political beliefs that directly or indirectly effect your design practice.
Q: Imagine: You produce a crappy trade magazine every quarter. You have been doing it since before you knew what design was about. There is no way to improve it, it is really really hideous and badly done. But it pays £2k a year. You hate it so much. Should you sever li
A: Depends how long it takes.
- If you can make it in one day, thats £500 per day, thats pretty good.
- If it takes two days to make, thats £250 per day, still pretty good.
- If it takes ten days to make, thats £50 per day, if your just starting or things are tight then go for it.
Anymore than ten days per issue I think you should quit.
Q: Can intellectualism be commodified?
Q: Do you think Indexhibit is or could become an archetype?
A: Indexhibit should be taken for granted, added too, customised, and apropriated in the same way the Post-it Note, a Postcard and bound pages in a book are. In this sense I believe the essence of Indexhibit is neutral, it is a blank space awaiting content without which it fails to exist.
Things become archetypal because they work well, and have been embraced by the masses, generic things that are special because they try not to be special. To have helped create and defined an archetype would be my ultimate dream. I always wonder how rock bands feel once Muzak makes a version of their song to play in a supermarket, if I wrote songs that would be the ultimate.
Q: Who What When Where Why How?
A: Me/You This/That Now/Then Here/There Desire/Invitation Intuitively/Strategically
Q: beginning of summer = big brother returning. does this modern reality make you depressed?
Q: do you compromise?
A: To not compromise is unreasonable.
Q: Do you feel technology has better served or actucally inhibited the development of a stronger personal (as opposed to professional) community?
Q: Do you think that drawing is the basis of all art?
A: Thinking
Q: Why do you sway more to systematical experimentation and cataloguing to communicate an idea?
Q: Do you feel your work has to communicate an answer?
A: Yes, or pose a question.
Q: Art or Design?
A: or
Q: How many efforts did it take to get the ball in the hoop when facing the wrong way?
A: One.
Q: Great dance action! But how did you make those cars start alarming?
A: I danced to alarms that were already disturbing the peace. Positioned myself during the pause, then danced when the alarm sounded again.
Q: Which project that you have worked on (Foundation33, Eatock, University or personal etc) are you most proud of?
A: The newest.
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