{"id":397,"date":"2005-11-04T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T14:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=397"},"modified":"2005-11-08T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T16:43:56","slug":"mixed-design-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Design Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_46\/b3959136.htm\">article<\/a> (and the accompanying slideshow) about design phenom Ora Ito over on BusinessWeek. It&#8217;s a fun piece on how the impatient design dropout rose to the top&#8230; but also an indication of the mixed messages being broadcast about Design. Here&#8217;s someone with obviously a lot of raw talent and some pedigree being showcased as an example to a business community that is still largely unable to take design seriously. I have no doubt that some senior exec is going to expect one of his CAD jockeys to &#8220;be like Mike&#8221; (or in this case, Ito). And on the flipside there are people as talented as Ito laboring quietly under the thumb of a mediocre corporate management team; taking direction from people with no vision for the products they bring to market. As one senior vice president once told me, &#8220;We don&#8217;t know who buys this sh*t. But they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe what the business world needs is a behind-the-scenes peek at the average day-to-day life of a designer in the corporate world. Wouldn&#8217;t be as fun, but it might be a whole lot more instructive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this article (and the accompanying slideshow) about design phenom Ora Ito over on BusinessWeek. It&#8217;s a fun piece on how the impatient design dropout rose to the top&#8230; but also an indication of the mixed messages being broadcast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}