Sometimes finding yourself doing absolutely useless stuff. Putting such a big amount of work and enthusiasm for works or people that don’t necessarily worth it. Keeping an ideal alive, somewhere in your head, even though sometimes you feel you’re moving a bit far away from it.
Making too much compromises and thinking this is the price to pay. Trying to understand people that don’t care about anything else than money. Spending hours in sad meeting rooms staring all together at a beamer image. Wondering what you’re doing here. Looking at the city lights through the plane’s window and thinking you could do much more than that.
Being patient BUT being deeply convinced that understanding the mechanisms is a first step to change absurd things. Being deeply motivated to bring a bit more sense where it’s really needed.
Design is not a cool job, it’s a fucking hard job.
Often wondering the same things
Posted by Giorgio Baresi on March 21st, 2009.
I was thinking the same thing one day, after a useless meeting, one of our clients told me: “This tool will last 1 or 2 years, then we will throw it away”.
Working for more than three months with low budget, strict impositions, useless meetings, gaining an audience of users for a product that is planned to be killed! Not evolved, killed!
That sentence put everything in a somewhat different perspective.
Posted by Folletto Malefico on July 20th, 2009.