Journal #5 TED Talks

I watched three movies on TED talks including Stefan Sagmeister and Paula Scher, and I really enjoyed what I heard. First of all, one thing that really got to me is something that Stefan Sagmeister talked about. One of the designs that made him happy was from a designer in New York that put cloud bubbles on posters and other people wrote in them. He commented that that design not only let the designer make the living environment more enjoyable, but it also let common people interact with design and they were able to make the design their own. I think it would be cool to let people who interact with designs all the time have an influence on those designs.

Paula Scher talked about the different between serious and solemn. It is interesting to think that the designs that really changed the world or design itself, are the designs that are ruined once they become popular. Once a design becomes popular it isn't serious anymore because you have expectations to reproduce more and more and more and it loses its oomph.

If I did have the opportunity to talk to Paula I would ask, even though she does more solemn than serious, do you enjoy the serious more than the solemn or vise versa. Which pays the bills and if you were to depend on either/or, which one should to do?

Sagmeister, I can see, is a popular designer because he gets it; he can relate to the common person. He can also relate design to non-designers. Sometimes designs can be hard to understand (which might be a problem with the design itself) and he is a man that can do designs that more people understand and can react to or interpret in their own way to make it their own design.