Why am I saying this? Well, I happened more than one time to read rather arrogant opinions of established designers complaining about the loss of quality in contemporary typedesign, the flood of clones, the fact that many (espacially small) design studios rather use some free fonts from the web than expensive quality material.
    I shouldn't give a damn but it made me feel kind of pissed off. The availability of the technical means for clean design since the first DTP machine was affordable, thus the increasing number of people calling themselves designers because they knew how to handle a mouse (with the result of popular design catastrophes) is a fact designers just have to live with.
   On the other hand, unprofessional designers have good ideas also. And there's more than one really cool free font on the web. Compare it to the impact of Punk and New Wave on mainstream music at the end of the seventies.
   I'd like professional designers to have a little more respect for their undergound "colleagues". They might not have diploma, but that doesn't mean they're completely incompetent or generally no hard-working fellows. So if you might want to tell me something about how shitty my stuff is, save your energy if it's not constructive criticism.
    Peace!                                              Mieps

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