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by arrrg 4716 days ago
Yeah, well he is not an industrial designer, doesn’t advertise himself as one and doesn’t sell his industrial design skills. Which he doesn’t have. Doesn’t even claim to have. Not even a little bit.

He is a fucking graphic designer and that’s exactly how you should judge this.

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If he's not an industrial designer, then why is this an industrial design?

It's like you hand me an album of somebody scratching at a violin for 80 minutes and tell me that the point was the album art, he's "not a musician" and "not advertising himself as one", gosh.

Excuse us silly engineers that got distracted by the actual content of the damn link. Guess we didn't see the trees for the forest.

If the point is to have a portfolio piece as a visual designer, Make a brochure for something that already exists, or that is unique and doesn't exist. This is an uncanny valley of being unimaginative yet impossible and that distracts me (and many readers here) from everything else.

Sometimes I hate stupid engineers. They are such assholes sometimes that just do not get it at all.

This fucking thing is some stupid fun. Nothing more. I’m not sure what this cynicism burning with the power of a million suns shit is all about. Why do people behave this way?

He's a graphic designer? Than where's some original graphics? The entire thing looks like he made a tweak to an iPhone model, but didn't produce anything nearing original, and slightly modified the iPhone website.

None of the assets look original, and there doesn't actually seem to be any graphic design involved. The entire thing looks to be a showcase of non-existent industrial design skills.

Hows that for judging it based on graphic design?

I thought the app icons were pretty good.
I honestly couldn't see a difference from the ones used in iOS 7...
If he is a fucking graphic designer, then he should stop talking about technical details like graphene, as if he knew how it worked.
Perhaps he should stick to graphic design then, and stay away from industrial design.