Bouv's Blog » Design http://www.jcbouvier.com The Rants & Pomp of an American Mutt Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:52:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Graphic Designers Hate eBooks and the Kindle. http://www.jcbouvier.com/2010/05/graphic-designers-hate-ebooks-and-the-kindle/ http://www.jcbouvier.com/2010/05/graphic-designers-hate-ebooks-and-the-kindle/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 17:34:42 +0000 J.C. http://www.jcbouvier.com/?p=673 I can understand why graphic designers would hate eBooks. After having spent years honing PageMaker, Quark or InDesing skills, you now have to re-shape that set into a Kindle or iBook format, or grow new skill limbs for even developing your own eBook reader apps…However, IMHO, a talented designer is a talented designer, and that sensibility is hard to come by…I would rather have design sensibility than Flash skills and I would cite, Jim Coudal/Coudal Partners, and they might disagree, as one of the best examples of a team that has evolved from that neighborhood of near straight-up graphic design, into something more.

This vid has been out there for a while, but it’s still fun…invoking the famous devil printer scene from Mike Judge’s “Office Space”…Certainly the skills of the graphic designer are not lost in the need to now design for the eBook market. Where the web development community has gone from hand-coding websites to Dreamweaver, Flash, Firework or a CMS system and CSS…so it is w/the traditional printed book. BTW, I just saw a listing at Sotheby’s for a 16th century print of some religious scribes kicking the shit out of Johannes Guttenberg…

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