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NULL NULL
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01/11/2006 6:27 pm  

Based on the book - 'Designers Are Wankers' has been borne to create many diverse opportunities. When I graduated I felt incredibly isolated in terms of what I was doing and what everyone else was doing. A lot of my uni colleagues felt the same. I searched and searched for a 'creative pool' I could join to place my profile and gain inspiration and advice from others. What I found back then was not exactly what I hoped for but it was ok. I had a tiny footprint on the web but I wanted to make this even bigger and more personal. There was also no freedom of communication and information like a community based entity and that's exactly what designersarewankers.com provides as an essential asset to any designer venturing into their chosen field. It's completely filled the gap; an incredible tool where there is finally a permeation of the 'skin' layers surrounding each design discipline which always seemed to have been kept very much seperate in the past. In Plebsville, us plebs are all under one umbrella with the Gurus and Hugo available to give advice when needed. Have fun and watch it morph into the unexpected!! Once you have placed your personalised profile, add to your portfolio folders, invite other plebs to sign up, spread the word ...then wait for the next phase. Enjoy!

http://www.designersarewankers.com


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dcwilson
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02/11/2006 9:40 pm  

You need a less wordy, more attention grabbing tag line...
than "Designers are wankers." It just doesn't make you stand out enough. How about something shorter like:
"DesignWank."
Or if you must be wordy:
"Design and the whole world wanks with you."
Or:
"Form follows Wanking."
Or just the straightforward:
"Interiorwanking." 🙂
Actually, I kind of like your site in an offbeat sort of way. But I would have liked it as much without the "wank" effect, so as a designer, you have to ask yourself, is it extraneous? Put another way, would you put a wank effect on one of your designs to help sell it? I bet not, but who knows?


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NULL NULL
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06/11/2006 3:02 pm  

DAW
DAW is the title of the book by Lee McCormack, the website is inspired by the book.
I am a pleb on the site.
I see what you say but I think you are missing the point!


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SDR
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07/11/2006 4:28 am  

Maybe for
us Yanks of a certain age, the definitions of "wanker" and "pleb" ? (!) ( Last time I looked, wanker was awful close to jerkoff. . .?)
SDR


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dcwilson
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07/11/2006 6:50 pm  

I always give wankers, er, designers a chance....
to explain themselves, because they are often profoundly creative persons, who's insights I sometimes miss at first.
What is the point I am missing?


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dcwilson
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07/11/2006 7:24 pm  

SDR...
I checked Merriam-Webster online (I'm not privvy to the OED these days) and its current definition reads as follows...
wanker
One entry found for wanker.
Main Entry: wank·er
Pronunciation: 'wa[ng]-k&r
Function: noun
1 chiefly British, usually vulgar : a person who masturbates
2 chiefly British, usually vulgar : JERK, DOLT
So, according to MW, DAW translates as either:
"Designers are masturbators."
Or:
"Designers are jerks or dolts."
Now I have nothing against masturbating. It is as Woody Allen has said sex with someone you love (or at least ought to).
Jerks and dolts seem kind off the mark for designers on DA, anyway.
About all I can conclude is wanker is a fun word to say (at least I've always enjoyed saying it) and appropriating it for another meaning is always good form (even desirable) in a living language...IF one assigns it a new meaning that is new and clear robust. Alas, I don't grasp the new meaning...yet anyway.
Oh, I hate to be in the role of questioning youth getting on with clearing a new path. I'd much rather encourage them to burn the dead wood so the forest can renew. But words, like formal languages, need to be decisive, clear, forceful and coherent, or the forest just gets charred, not revitalized.


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dotty
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07/11/2006 7:56 pm  

'wanker' a definition
here is another one for you, one that is more in tone with the book's content:
The term wanker has also been extended, as a generic insult, to cover self-aggrandizement or ostentatious behaviour, specifically where the performer's impression of their own talent and ability manifestly exceeds that of the audience. 'Stroking ones Ego'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanker


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vivienne
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07/11/2006 10:43 pm  

Errr...
I looked at the site and i thought it was really good!, i was under the impression that "wankers" meant "wankers", what a hoot!. Dont see any probs with that really,or am i missing something? One thing i did think was the site was bordering on being a little too "whacky" just for the sake of it.On the whole though i like it.Wank on designers!.Errr?.


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NULL NULL
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10/11/2006 2:18 pm  

....ok great...
now that we have moved on from the much talked about definition of 'wankers' we can embrace the concept of the book and the website.


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dcwilson
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11/11/2006 4:49 am  

WHICH IS?
I can't wank to hear. 😉


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dcwilson
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11/11/2006 4:50 am  

Could you summarize it...
in a few short strokes? 🙂


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SDR
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11/11/2006 8:32 am  

Tsk-tsk. . .
or, "can I just read it until I need glasses ?"


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vivienne
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11/11/2006 8:14 pm  

Oh no..another one..
Is this turning into a "mass debate"? you lot really are a handfull.


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dcwilson
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12/11/2006 5:05 am  

autodesignacism?
rim shot!


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Honey
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13/11/2006 9:54 am  

Hmmm
I like the site!


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