#idpure

[ericellis]

If you could think of a mission state for "designer" as a career, what would it be? SO: I think designers should be aware that they don't work in a vacuum: that their work will have an effect on other people. They should remember that their work has both intended and unintended consequences. Their mission should be to consider what happens with the artifacts they design after they've designed them. They should also ask themselves questions: about intercultural communication, about how others live, think and perceive, about how people will use what they've made. Design should be a dialogue, not just designers putting stuff out there. In some ways I think designers have gone from people who "serve" clients and audiences to people who collaborate with experts and non-experts to produce artifacts that connect better to their everyday reality.

Sarah Owens, Co-Director, Visuelle Kommunikation; IDPURE Issue 36

[theygotgame]

IDPure Magazine #35

[nicolasfranckpauly]

We #TDS have been featured in the last issue of #idpure. Also on cover :-) (à buro)

[iwantyoustudio]

Happy that some of the design i've done for Shabazz Palaces is featured in the Swiss design magazine IDPURE.

[hard-copy]

Press: special portfolio in IDPure Magazine n.29

[earnestlydesigned]

I just came across a fantastic graphic design and typography magazine from Switzerland called IDPURE. In the current issue the Founder and Editor-in-Chief Thierry Hausermann quotes Albert Einstein reflecting on the economic crisis of 1929.  It does appear that not much has changed in nearly a century. 

"Let's not pretend that things will change if we doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish, just as the day is born from the dark night. It is in crisis that inventiveness, discoveries and great strategies are born. He who overcomes crisis overcomes himself, without being 'over-come.' He who blames his failures on the crisis neglects his own talent, and is more interested in problems than solutions. Incompetence is the true crisis. The greatest inconvenience of people and nations is the laziness with which they attempt to find solutions to their problems. There's no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow agony. There's no merit without crisis. It's in the crisis where we can show the very best in us. Without a crisis, any wind becomes a tender touch. To speak about a crisis is to promote it. Not to speak about it is to exalt conformism. Let us work hard instead. Let us put an end, once and for all, to the menacing crisis that represents the tragedy of not being willing to overcome it"

True then. True now. Do not sit. Stand. This is not the time for self-restraint. It is the time for exertion of ideas and actions.