RidiculousDesignRules.com

Like it or love it, we all have rules that help us at work. "Leave it until the last minute." "Never use a PC." They make sense because they work for you, and you alone. When you try and make someone else follow them, they stop working and become a joke. The problem is that every rule related to, or governing, design is ultimately ridiculous.

 

We decided to give you a place where you could unload those pretentious sound bites about design you've heard from colleagues, clients or anyone else who thinks they know more than you.

Designers don’t need anybody else to make us laugh,

when we do it so well ourselves. 

Most Ridiculous Design Rules

 

Below you'll find a list of some of the most Ridiculous Design Rules we could find. This is only the beginning. Add your own RDRs to compile the ultimate list of inspirational/delusional design jargon for the world to judge.

 

Rate each rule on the Ridiculous Scale where 5 is ridiculously ridiculous and 1 if it almost sounds sensible. As if that will ever happen...

 

 

 

Never trust Helvetica. Just use it.
A picture is worth a thousand words
A dress makes no sense, unless it inspires men to want to take it off you
Always make the top left-hand logo of the website a home button
Break the rules
Design means being good not just looking good
'Good artists copy, great artists steal' (Picasso)
Never use white type on a black background
Good design is good business
God is in the details.
Everybody is a designer
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DESIGN RULES ARE

Ridiculous

Quite helpful

Very dated

A necessary evil

 

One picture is worth...


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BIS Publishers

Don't sit on the fence


Chairs are to sit in, we suppose.

Or to boast about. Or something.


 

 

Ball Chair. Designer: Eero Aarnio (Finland, 1968)

 

 

Pat Conley II. Designer: Philippe Starck (France, 1985)

 

 

 

Hand Chair. Designer: Pedro Friedeberg (Mexico, c.1970)

 

 

Max the bath tub chaise. Max McMurdo (UK, 2007)

 

 

 

 


09/10/2008 | Link



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