Emily Gosden’s defamatory article on the Times Online has ruffled a few feathers in the design world, and prompted this response from Design Assembly. A good response, although judging by the quality of Gosden’s article and her incredibly fuzzy use of logic I doubt she will be able to understand it. Perhaps just drawing a picture of a Massive Penis would have sufficed. Personally I think her article is too ill informed and badly written to get that worked up about, in fact the more I read it the funnier it gets, here are some of my favourite bits.
“…yet one department admitted that it could produce logos in-house for £648….” & “…Last year it spent £14,000 on a new logo that, when viewed sideways, resembled a sexually aroused man.”
Clearly, you don’t get ’sideways sexually aroused man’ for just £648.
The Tory MP Greg Hands said: “Surely adding two digits doesn’t need to be outsourced at all. Civil servants can do this themselves. Modern graphic design packages surely allow anyone with an average brain to design something as good as, or better than, what we see in front of us here.”
Yes Greg Hands, surely any civil servant with an average brain can do all the jobs they currently outsource, equally well if not better, despite their lack of knowledge and training in those fields. In fact, the arrival of these ‘Super Civil Servants’ will surely bring about the demise of our industry (and just about every other one too).
Emily Gosden vs Graphic Design
Emily Gosden’s defamatory article on the Times Online has ruffled a few feathers in the design world, and prompted this response from Design Assembly. A good response, although judging by the quality of Gosden’s article and her incredibly fuzzy use of logic I doubt she will be able to understand it. Perhaps just drawing a picture of a Massive Penis would have sufficed. Personally I think her article is too ill informed and badly written to get that worked up about, in fact the more I read it the funnier it gets, here are some of my favourite bits.
“…yet one department admitted that it could produce logos in-house for £648….” & “…Last year it spent £14,000 on a new logo that, when viewed sideways, resembled a sexually aroused man.”
Clearly, you don’t get ’sideways sexually aroused man’ for just £648.
The Tory MP Greg Hands said: “Surely adding two digits doesn’t need to be outsourced at all. Civil servants can do this themselves. Modern graphic design packages surely allow anyone with an average brain to design something as good as, or better than, what we see in front of us here.”
Yes Greg Hands, surely any civil servant with an average brain can do all the jobs they currently outsource, equally well if not better, despite their lack of knowledge and training in those fields. In fact, the arrival of these ‘Super Civil Servants’ will surely bring about the demise of our industry (and just about every other one too).