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New personal site ⚡️ — Bobby Giangeruso, Freelance Designer(bobby.so)

6 years ago from Bobby Giangeruso, Product Designer

  • Interested Curious, 6 years ago

    All the feedback here shows me is that everyone on this site is super bitter, and not very open to new styles unless it's by a "pioneer"

    So many people on this website could use a short course in graphic design to see that none of this is new, that just by labeling everything that doesn't look like your favorite website "brutalism" and "against "traditional" design (what the hell is this? We've seen design change so much in the last decade alone) makes you look like someone who would be a terrible designer to work under or have as a mentor because you think aesthetics have a right and wrong answer, as opposed to being a case by case basis, meant to fit the audience.

    13 points
    • P GBP GB, 6 years ago

      not very open to new styles

      So many people on this website could use a short course in graphic design to see that none of this is new

      Are you okay?

      1 point
      • Interested Curious, 6 years ago

        Different, new same shit, new for this site, as everything that even gets posted that slightly resembles this, gets foamy mouthed posters riled up.

        Also traditional graphic design and this sort of design aren't technically the same thing.

        But nice pull quote there.

        Especially when my main point kinda was how is anyone to grow from feedback that's 90% "Ugh I hate blue, I don't like this style"

        5 points
    • Account deleted 6 years ago

      As a traditional graphic designer, this is is the main reason why I cant really mess with DN anymore. I have noticed theres a trend with the "SV/product design" scene and the general consensus of what is deemed "good" and it is so narrow. Everyone hails websites like Stripe etc but god forbid, if a portfolio doesn't look like a product designer landing we have seen 10000 times before, it's "bad" or "brutalist"...wtf.

      10 points
      • Mattan IngramMattan Ingram, 6 years ago

        This is leaning towards a brutalist aesthetic, but that doesn't mean it is bad.

        1 point
        • Interested Curious, 6 years ago

          Brutalist referred to architecture and feels a lot like a knee jerk reaction for the product design community to label more exploratory design like David Carons under a rigid label.

          While architecture is a type of design, I don't think calling something more closely related to graphic design brutalist works.

          Very little about this work even has much in common with brutalist architecture.

          0 points