Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Absolutely. I am not suggesting either that products simply "appear," or that designers shouldn't or don't have an important role in the production of all "things." What I am suggesting is that far too often, in both industrial and graphic design, form qua form, as expressed by the designer, wins out over function. B. D. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Guy Bennett > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 2:27 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Meta Photokina > > > > So it is not stupidity nor genius. It is a matter of necessity. > >> I do however wonder about the "genius" of denigrating other's ideas and > >> motives without considering all the facts. > >> > >> Joe C > >> > >Oh, PUULLLEEEEEEEEZE!...Consider all the facts and it is the stupidity > >inherent in giving a "designer" control over a functional tool. It would > >have been easy enough to put shoes on the prisms..plural...I had > an F3 for a > >number of year, and will attest to the fact that it was - and > still is - a > >really terrific camera. But the shoe placement was, well, inane. > > > >B.D. > > > hey b.d., > > if a designer doesn't design it, it doesn't get made, right? i mean, i > never heard of spontaneous photo-generation, or immaculate > camera-conception. > > everything from camera bodies to kleenex boxes have been designed by a > designer, whatever their functional familiarity with the object designed > may be. > > guy >