Monday, January 22, 2007

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Norberto Chaves: Art & Design


One of the great dilemmas that so far can be observed is the ambiguity differentiation resulting in the applied arts of design as a communication technique. This class proposes a reading of Argentine designer Norberto Chaves, who mentioned the lack of theoretical activity in the field of design.

Some points of conflict in practice and design review are:
  • Inprecisión of functions in the communications market. Uneven Development
  • graphic design services and the difficulty for approval.
  • formal deviation in the ranking of levels of program design. Pragmatism or trend
  • the answer is not measured by conceptual processing.
  • Lack of theoretical development. Failure
  • curricular teaching profession.
design itself is already a heterogeneous practice a profession in which plural variants attend technical, methodological, cultural and estilísitcas.

Listed below are some of the deficiencies more common in graphic design services:
  • resistance to the constraints of the program.
  • The dimensionality of the speech.
  • , the context of the piece.
  • The low abstraction. Non-discrimination
  • functions.
  • Non objectification of graphical languages.
  • passive reproduction of style. Poverty
  • style.
  • designer identification with the work. Empiricism and deficit
  • discipline.
To solve this we need a new profile for the graphic designer. It is precisely at this point in reading where we see Norberto Chaves was approached what would later be called information designer.

The designer is a global communicator must have control of what you need to communicate. Importantly, not an artist so the style is still a variable, ie does not respond to personal creative needs.

The designer must be more dominant demand also must follow a process, a methodology that supports your work as it is difficult to educate the customer to make him understand that our object of study is a knowledge product and intangible. It is at this time when we are in a struggle between the needs of customers vs. comuncación customer needs. It is necessary to educate and help it grow.

addition to what has been said, the designer must be highly analytical mind and an awareness of working in an interdisciplinary way. Many designers end up work alone without seeing the context in which this unfolding trying to solve the problem. Even the cultural influence of the utmost importance that they put aside and try to cover by tropicalisation products. Culture is encompassing, the design must take this into account.

Why art design is not applied?

The design is sometimes confused with the art, however, the latter has no prospective design process, but of craft production. In practice, the design is affirmed and institutionalized as disciples independently associated with the production and responding synthetically all his requirements: technical, utilitarian, symbolic and aesthetic, commercial, industrial, and promotional comuniacionales.

This was one of the main discussions of this kind, "the design is art? Yes or no?.

One of my colleagues argued that the turn has been given to the art is more personal expression, however, take into account that this is a very recent concept. We also saw that can be considered a necessity of aesthetic pleasure, precisely because the way we approach things is aesthetic taste is a fundamental part, goes with the feel and response of acceptance or rejection of the around us. Multiple

do graphic design professions, whether sketches, illustrations, visual codes, diagrams, etc. Many times our product and our process are also graphic visual depictions.

Finally, personal style as a fundamental part of the design was one of the discussions. Personally I do not think the style is the source of the design. Certainly there are companies that look specifically for the style of a designer, looking to sell that image, but this does not mean that style is going to ensure functionality. In short, to quote the words of my friend Veronica in the previous class, "aesthetics serves to function. "

Monday, January 15, 2007

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Design in


This first session was divided into two blocks during the first established the content that will follow the rest of the semester and everything for the syllabus (objectives, content, sessions, course dynamics and evaluation criteria), while in the second part of this class we focus on the history of information design in the UDLA.

At the time of the 40's was founded in Mexico City College, history of what is now UDLA. At about the 50's was created Visual arts career which later changed to Graphic Arts in which some things were taught printmaking and design. Later, it changed to a degree in graphic arts and design. Around the 70's he founded the graphic design career in which he remained for a long time, until 2000, when he became Information Design. It was again renewed in 2006 and is now called Visual Information Design.

Information design was a historical process . One of the reasons that led to this new degree is the epistemological problem that has the graphic design: does not have an object of study . If we go back the etymological meaning of this design refers to the practice of drawing and signs. In itself, it has always been related to the design with paint and draw beautifully, which at one time was the real meaning of design, but it also had to be part of the historical process and that this way it was possible the rise of representation visual. Unlike graphic design, information design does not have an adjective but an object of study quite clear: information. Inthe

most universities where design provides a career is the confusion between technician and designer. Apparently technical production and reproduction of technology are the order of the day. This makes another major design differences between the UDLA and other universities. We did not design the graphic, design information and represent them by visual means as 90% of information comes in this way. You need a theoretical basis of what we do, one based on the study of language and the user in order to solve information problems that arise.

also for the first time, we explained what was the curriculum and why it is structured that way. I think if we would have said before, some teachers would have saved a lot of courage to try to convince us that the issues were seen not just by chance but were the true meaning of information design.

designer process information can be summarized in the following sections: Diagnosis
  1. .
  2. conceptual structure.
  3. visual solutions.
  4. Imprementación / production.
  5. Evaluation.
The only graphic designer can be involved in visual processing solutions, it defines it quite unlike the designer of information, which may participate in the entire project development.