[Sigia-l] Putting the "Graphic" back with"Designer"(was:thelesserimportance of home pages)

[Christopher Fahey]

> > Although I fully agree that a graphic designer is not in a 
> > position to make such decisions...
> 
> There are, I'm sure, multitudes of graphic designers, IAs or 
> any number of master-of-one-trade practitioners who *are* 
> perfectly happy with what they do. And thus should be left 
> alone to enjoy themselves. :-)

I may be wrong, but that sounds like a bit of a compromise from your earlier
denial of the value of "graphic design" as a specialization. :-) So if they
should be permitted to enjoy themselves, can't they also be permitted to
have an advocacy group? Such as, say, the AIGA?

For every holistic design leader, there are dozens of people with
specializations, including many in the graphic design field. Instead of a
wholesale rejection and ostracization of the term "graphic design", mightn't
the AIGA instead focus on helping graphic designers whose skills and
ambitions extend across other disciplines, focusing on leadership/visionary
empowerment? I think that the AIGA should focus on exactly the position you
describe with a special division/task force/initiative focused on
design-based leadership development, not by pretending that graphic design
doesn't exist.

-Cf

Christopher Fahey
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